Kelsey Grammer, the actor and director best known for his roles in Frasier, Cheers, and Transformers, recently shared his personal experience with abortion. In his new memoir, Karen: A Brother Remembers, he reflected on two abortions in his past, expressing the deep pain and regret they have caused him throughout his life.
“I know that many people do not have a problem with abortion, and though I have supported it in the past, the abortion of my son eats away at my soul,” Grammer wrote.
His first son passed away in 1974. Although Kelsey was willing to keep his baby, his then-girlfriend was not. He “did not plead with her to save his life” because of his support of the “idea that a woman has the right to do what she wants with her own body.”
“I supported the idea that a woman has the right to do what she wants with her own body. I still do. But it’s hard for me. Still is,” he wrote.
When explaining the abortion, he said, “I volunteered to have my son’s body vacuumed out of his mother’s. I regret it.”
This is considered a suction dilation and curettage (D&C) abortion, often used in the first trimester. The abortionist will use a vacuum-like tool to suction the baby out of the womb, rapidly tearing the body into pieces. This procedure is not only horrifically cruel to the baby but also traumatic for all involved.
He also criticized abortionists, saying, “The doctor, or so-called doctors, who have executed generations of children in this manner — I have no idea how they call themselves doctors. Something about the ‘first, do no harm’ thing. But I offer no controversy.”
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Years later, Grammer was expecting his daughter Faith with his now-wife Kayte, the couple was actually expecting fraternal twins. However, the second baby’s sac ruptured at 13 weeks and did not repair itself.
“Doctors advised us his continued growth without the safety of his amniotic fluid would surely kill him and probably take Faith too,” Kelsey recalled. “It did not repair.”
Grammar says he and his wife decided to abort their son in order to save their daughter. “We killed our son so Faith might live. We wept as we watched his heart stop,” Grammer said.
“It is the greatest pain I have ever known. Kayte’s scream was enough to make a man mourn a lifetime,” he wrote.
Abortion not only harms the baby and mother, but fathers are left with deep regret and trauma as well. Even someone like Kelsey Grammer, who lives a life of fame, success, and wealth, still cannot shake the feeling of knowing two of his sons were aborted.
Thankfully, we serve a God who is ready to forgive when we come in repentance and salvation. Join us in prayer for Kesley Grammer and every post-abortive father, that they will find healing in Jesus.
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