Sally Field endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as she walked through the graphic details of sexual abuse she experience during an illegal abortion in Mexico before Roe v. Wade
Hollywood actress Sally Field, best known for her role in Mrs Doubtfire, weighed in on the raging abortion debate, retelling her own story.
At just 17-years-old, Sally was driven to Tijuana by a friend to receive an illegal abortion. Roe v. Wade would not be ruled on until 1973, leaving abortion laws up to the states with many opting to provide strict rules on the subject. As a result, Sally found herself on a “scrunchy, scary-looking street.”
As Sally said in a video, the experience was “life-altering,” especially when she was drugged and molested during the procedure. She said: “I had no anaesthetic. There was a technician giving me a few puffs of ether, but he would then take it away. So it just made my arms and legs feel numb and weird, but I felt everything. How much pain I was in, and then I realized that the technician was actually molesting me.”
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She explained that she couldn’t move her arms to push him away and felt an “absolute pit of shame” due to the incident. After the procedure, she was rushed away quickly. Sally further added that the friend who drove her was a doctor who “would have lost his license if anyone had found out.” Nonetheless, he commended “his generosity and his bravery.”
Sally advocated for Tim Walz and Kamala Harris (
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The actress felt passionately that she didn’t want any other women to suffer in the way she did. She further endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, especially given their pro-choice stance on abortion rights. “Please. We can’t go back,” she wrote.
In the Instagram caption, she wrote: “I’ve been so hesitant to do this, to tell my horrific story. It was during a time even worse than now. A time when contraception was not readily available and only if you were married. But I feel that so many women of my generation went through similar, traumatic events and I feel stronger when I think of them. I believe, like me, they must want to fight for their grandchildren and all the young women of this country.
“It’s one of the reasons why so many of us are supporting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Everyone, please, pay attention to this election, up and down the ballot, in every state – especially those with ballot initiatives that could protect reproductive freedom.”
