Tanisha Carson
She asked me to come and talk to her.
Andrea Bocelli
He recounted how doctors had tried to convince his mother to abort him after she suffered an attack of appendicitis. Doctors said that the child would be born with a disability.
Bocelli was born in 1958 to Alessandro and Edi Bocelli and was diagnosed with congenital glaucoma. By age 12 he was completely blind.
Maybe I am partisan, but I can say it was the right choice.
Jack Nicholson
Photo Credit: Franz Richter
The actor Jack Nicholson, who discovered as an adult that the woman he was raised to believe was his sister was actually his mother, who had conceived him when she was a teenager. She was advised to get an abortion, but chose life. Jack Nicholson did not find out until 1974, after his mother had died of cancer, that June Frances was his real mother.
I’m very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I’m positively against it. I don’t have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life… [If June and Ethel had been] of less character, I never would have gotten to live. These women gave me the gift of life.
Tim Tebow
Tim Tebow’s parents recollect on their pregnancy. They were told by doctors to abort if she wanted to save her life.
He was a miracle baby and he was healthy.
A true story of a frightened 13 year old girl.
Conceived through rape
Many famous individuals have been conceived through rape. Some are:
- Faith Daniels, a TV news anchor and actress
- Martin Sheen’s wife
- Eartha Kitt, a singer, author, and activist
- Ethel Waters, a singer and actress
Monica Kelsey
Talking about her adoptive parents and her own children,
If I was aborted, what would their lives be like without me?