USA Sally Field talks about secret abortion at 17
Oscar winner Sally Field has spoken openly about having an illegal abortion at the age of 17. The actress also called for the election of Kamala Harris in a video message.
08.10.2024, 05:19
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Hollywood star Sally Field (77, "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Lincoln") talks about an abortion she had secretly in Mexico as a teenager. The procedure was illegal in the USA at the time. In an emotional video message on Instagram, the actress described the "traumatic" experience and said that young women in the USA were now going through similar things because of strict abortion regulations. "We can't go back," Field warned. "We have to fight".
"This is one of the reasons why so many of us support Kamala Harris and Tim Walz," she wrote on the video. Voters in every state should pay attention to ballot initiatives that can protect reproductive freedom.
Abortion rights are an important US election issue
The dispute over abortion rights is one of the central issues in the US election campaign. The Democrats around candidate Kamala Harris repeatedly warn that women's rights in the USA are in great danger. Just over two years ago, the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion. Former President Trump had shifted the majority on the court significantly to the right through several reappointments, making this decision possible in the first place. Now the states can decide on abortion rights - abortions are now largely banned in a number of them.
So many young women of her generation have had to have abortions in secret, Field says in the video. A doctor friend of her family drove her from California to Tijuana, Mexico, and sent her to a building in a bad neighborhood with an envelope of money. The painful procedure was carried out there without anesthetic. She was then sent away immediately.
The mother of three sons also describes how her life changed completely shortly afterwards. In a competition for the title role in the TV series "Gidget", she beat out the many competitors. Her TV debut as a surfer girl was the starting signal for her acting career.
