woman has 15 abortions in 17 years

[Amby 490]

A 40-year-old woman who calls herself an "abortion addict," claims she terminated 15 pregnancies in 17 years, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Irene Vilar, who is a series editor of the Americas at Texas Tech University Press, is now the happy mother of two young daughters – but that wasn’t always the case.

When she was 16, Vilar met a man 34 years her senior, whom she would eventually marry.

This event began her roller coaster ride of conceiving and terminating pregnancies over the next 17 years, she explains in her new memoir, "Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict."

Vilar describes her first husband, Pedro Cuperman, as "a disturbingly handsome man," who believed "families are a nest of suffering" – and having children was off the table.

She said he chose her to be his wife because he thought of younger women as "unformed . . . unfinished, with not too many wounds."

Cuperman declined the Times’ offer to comment.

Vilar rebelled during her relationship with Cuperman by "forgetting" to take her birth control pills. When she would find out she was pregnant, she would feel joy at first, then panic – because she didn’t want to lose her husband.

So each time she got pregnant, Vilar would have an abortion, always feeling a mix of relief and despair. She also tried committing suicide several times during her marriage.

"Of course, this did not mean I wanted to do it again and again," Vilar said. "A druggie also wants to stop every time."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,565444,00.html

she also has a website http://irenevilar.com/

Edited October 14, 2009 by Amby

[Peikko 1,575]

Thanks Amby, you have just set us back about 100 years in this debate

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I doubt she's "addicted".

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I doubt she's "addicted".

Just adickted.

[Amby 490]

AJ

I wonder if she is like that guy who wrote the Million Little Pieces book. After he went on Oprah and stuff it turned out what he said was all true about being an addict was actually all made up. Remember him?

[Peikko 1,575]

If all abortions where performed on women like this, I'd be the first to call for them to be banned.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

AJ

I wonder if she is like that guy who wrote the Million Little Pieces book. After he went on Oprah and stuff it turned out what he said was all true about being an addict was actually all made up. Remember him?

James Frey. He didn't make up the whole story - he was an addict, but embellished it for artistic license.

Was as much to do with people's expections of truthfulness in memoir, than in anything deliberately deceitful going on.

[Otto 83]

The opposite (sort of) of Octomom...

[Amby 490]

AJ

I wonder if she is like that guy who wrote the Million Little Pieces book. After he went on Oprah and stuff it turned out what he said was all true about being an addict was actually all made up. Remember him?

James Frey. He didn't make up the whole story - he was an addict, but embellished it for artistic license.

Was as much to do with people's expections of truthfulness in memoir, than in anything deliberately deceitful going on.

Ah I see. I actually thought it was all made up. I wonder how much of this woman's story is true.

[anitacastillo 0]

In her unstable mental state (and maybe marriage) - it is better for her to have not had the children. Too many people become without thinking of the long term responsibilities. Too bad she couldn't have just stayed on the Pill.

[Danno 1,228]

AJ

I wonder if she is like that guy who wrote the Million Little Pieces book. After he went on Oprah and stuff it turned out what he said was all true about being an addict was actually all made up. Remember him?

James Frey. He didn't make up the whole story - he was an addict, but embellished it for artistic license.

Was as much to do with people's expections of truthfulness in memoir, than in anything deliberately deceitful going on.

Oprah was clearly "had" ... though for a much briefer time than you... as you seem to still be on the hook.

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Just so happens I saw this segment while waiting at a tire store, I seriously suspected the Guy was Full of BS as he relayed such stories as -getting a tooth filled with no pain suppressant.

How would one even find a dentist to do such a thing?

Oprah was taken in by the "emotion" of his story she over looked such stark flaws in it.

Whats your excuse Pike?

Edited October 14, 2009 by Danno

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

AJ

I wonder if she is like that guy who wrote the Million Little Pieces book. After he went on Oprah and stuff it turned out what he said was all true about being an addict was actually all made up. Remember him?

James Frey. He didn't make up the whole story - he was an addict, but embellished it for artistic license.

Was as much to do with people's expections of truthfulness in memoir, than in anything deliberately deceitful going on.

Ah I see. I actually thought it was all made up. I wonder how much of this woman's story is true.

He has a new book out I think, contrary to popular belief at the time that his writing career was over.

[HAL 9000 96]

I've actually met this person in RL. And no, she's not a lunatic.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

AJ

I wonder if she is like that guy who wrote the Million Little Pieces book. After he went on Oprah and stuff it turned out what he said was all true about being an addict was actually all made up. Remember him?

James Frey. He didn't make up the whole story - he was an addict, but embellished it for artistic license.

Was as much to do with people's expections of truthfulness in memoir, than in anything deliberately deceitful going on.

Oprah was clearly had ... though for a much briefer time than you... as you seem to still be on the hook.

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Just so happens I saw this segment while waiting at a tire store, I seriously suspected the Guy was Full of BS as he relayed such stories as -getting a tooth filled with no pain suppressant.

How would one even find a dentist to do such a thing?

Oprah was taken in by the "emotion" of his story she over looked such stark flaws in it.

Whats your excuse Pike?

What's my excuse for what?

[NickD 203]

Okay, I give, what did she do in years sixteen and seventeen?