Award-winning actress Sally Field shared her painful experience with an illegal abortion to support its legalization. But instead of helping her cause, her story is proving the opposite point.
Field shared her story in a video posted to her Instagram, saying that she had an abortion when she was just 17 years old in Tijuana, Mexico. “I had no family support or finances,” Field recalled, “I had nothing.”
She “luckily” had a family friend who was a doctor who drove her, her mother, and his wife to a dangerous and illegal abortion in Mexico.
Field described how the doctor pulled up on a “scary” street, pointed to a building three blocks away, handed her an envelope with cash, and told her to go in alone. “I guess he thought if I were dying, he could help me,” she said.
The procedure was terrifying. Field described being molested during the abortion, which was performed without anesthesia, aside from “a few puffs of ether.” When it was over, the staff rushed her out. “They said, ‘Go, go, go, go,’ like the building was on fire. They didn’t want me there—it was illegal.”
She described the killing of her baby as “beyond hideous and life-altering.”
Yet, instead of speaking out against abortion, Field used her experience to advocate for it. She praised the doctor for his “bravery” in helping her end her baby’s life. She even credited the procedure as a turning point in her life, claiming that fate, “something glorious outside of ourselves,” soon led her to acting. “A few months after that, I began auditions… And by the end of that year, I was Gidget, the quintessential all-American girl next door.”
This is a common theme among celebrities—they tie their success to the death of their unborn child, sending the harmful message that motherhood and achievement cannot coexist.
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Field was a scared teenager facing an unexpected pregnancy with no support. It’s understandable to feel fear in that situation, it is almost never easy. But abortion—whether legal or illegal—is never the answer because it always ends the same way: the death of an innocent baby and deep trauma for the mother.
Many young girls today don’t need a connection to get an abortion. Groups like Jane’s Due Process openly promote their work trafficking teens across state lines and coaching them on how to bypass parental consent. Cities like Austin have even used taxpayer dollars to support this mission.
“And it’s beyond me–how you go back to that and do that to our little girls and our young women and not have respect and regard for their health and their own decisions about whether they feel they’re able to give birth to a child at that time. We can’t go back.,” Field claimed.
She’s right—we can’t go back. But not in the way she thinks.
We can’t go back to a time when abortion was legal in Texas. We can’t allow anti-Life organizations to keep luring vulnerable women and teens across state lines for abortions. And we can’t sit back as more young girls experience the trauma Sally Field described.
Women with unexpected pregnancies do not need access to legal abortions–they need support, resources, community, and love.
That is why Texas Right to Life and your Pro-Life lawmakers are in the Capitol fighting for policies that will protect both women and babies.
Here’s how:
- The Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act (Senate Bill 730 by Senator Donna Campbell (R-New Braunfels) and House Bill 1806 by Representative Candy Noble (R-Lucas)): This measure will prevent cities like San Antonio and Austin from using taxpayer dollars to pay for abortion travel costs, like plane tickets and hotel rooms.
- The Woman and Child Protection Act (bill numbers forthcoming): This policy will go after illegal abortion pill websites, distributors, and accomplices that send deadly drugs to pregnant women’s homes and dorm rooms.
Join us in prayer for Sally Field, that the Lord will bring her to salvation and healing from her truly devastating experience. For Texas men and women who would like healing after an abortion, please reach out to Rachel’s Vineyard or a local pregnancy help center. Pregnant and need help? Click here.
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