Sally Field shares her abortion story while supporting Kamala Harris

Sally Field tells the “horrific” story of her illegal abortion and urges her followers to support Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential candidacy.

In a video shared on social media on Sunday, the 77-year-old Oscar-winning Flying Nun actress described having an abortion at age 17, before the landmark Roe v. Wade of the Supreme Court issued a constitutional right to abortion. Field, who shared that she still feels ashamed “because I grew up in the '50s,” said she “didn't have a lot of family support” when she became pregnant as a teenager.

The actress recounted how a family doctor drove her, his wife and Field's mother to Tijuana, Mexico, so she could undergo the procedure. There, the doctor gave her an envelope with cash and told her to go to a nearby building. “It was beyond vile and life-changing,” she recalled, noting she had “no anesthesia” and “felt everything.”

“And then I realized that the technician was actually harassing me,” Field said. “So I had to figure out how to move my arms to push him away? The building burned. They didn't want me there.

In the caption of her post, Field wrote that she was “hesitant” to share her “horrible story,” but said that “so many women of my generation have been through similar, traumatic events” and “want to fight for their grandchildren and all that.” “. young women of this country.”

“That’s one of the reasons so many of us support Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” she continued. “Please everyone pay attention this election, no matter what state, in every state — especially those with ballot initiatives that could protect reproductive freedom. PLEASE. WE CAN’T GO BACK!!”

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The 2024 presidential election will be the first since the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade repealed, thereby eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. Last month, Harris said she supported abolishing the filibuster to protect abortion protections from Roe v. to restore Wade. Her opponent, former President Donald Trump, has praised the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade overturned but says he would veto a statewide abortion ban. He argues that the matter should be left to the states.

Sally Fields talks about teenage abortion in her memoir

Field previously described her 1964 abortion in her 2018 memoir “In Pieces.”

“I know how terrible it was for that little 17-year-old girl: how scared I was and how I could have died,” she told NPR at the time. “And I think of all the women around the world who … are losing their lives, or losing their ability to have other children, or who are deeply ashamed because they live in a society or under a government that favors it “Decides to be unwanted.” Pregnancies in a certain light.”

Field returned to Instagram in August, inspired by Harris' presidential campaign. “I wasn’t on social media,” she wrote. “Not since it became public toilet paper for our former crook of a president. But 'Hope is making a comeback.'” So here I am.

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In another post the same day, Field shared a photo of herself with Harris' speech at the Democratic National Convention in the background and urged her supporters to “vote for democracy” by supporting Harris.

“This election will be so important for our reproductive freedoms, our ability to protect our planet, gun safety, the ability to love who you love and read what you want,” she also said on National Voter Registration Day. “And the chance to save democracy.”

Contributor: Rebecca Morin and Zac Anderson, USA TODAY

Sally Fields talks about teenage abortion in her memoir

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