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Sherri Shepherd: 'I Had a lot of Abortions'

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Sherri Shepherd got emotional during a recent heated conversation on "The View."

The topic was abortion and a new Texas law that requires women to get sonograms before aborting their children. The law requires doctors to play fetal heartbeats and describe features of the fetus.

Joy Behar and Barbara Walters didn't support the law, with Behar calling it "totalitarian." Conservative Elizabeth Hasselbeck didn't agree.

"You would never go through any medical procedure like that...without looking at the scientific evidence," Hasselbeck said. "Why you would ask for an X-ray for those things but not in this case?"

Whoopi Goldberg disagreed with the law, stating that some women are not ready to have children yet or can't afford them. She felt that aborting the children is better than letting them live without receiving financial help.

That's when Sherri Shepherd stepped in. She felt that it is hypocritical for those who oppose food stamps and welfare to be against the right to have an abortion.

"We stop at the picket signs and we don't help you past that!" she said. "I'm speaking as a girl who had a lot of abortions and I swear to God, if they had shown me a picture of the fetus... I would have put my child in a lot of situations that wouldn't have been good because I didn't have the mental capacity to deal with having a child."

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20 comments

ADOPTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm adopted....all my children are adopted....and there are great people we all know that were adopted: Edgar Allen Poe, Faith Hill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jesse Jackson, John Lennon, Tolstoy, Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Twain etc...

What if these people were killed before they got a chance to live and change our world?

Please.....don't kill innocent babies....give them to the millions of families that are BEGGING for babies.
Allen Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:21 Comment Link
i do not believe a word that comes out of her mouth, she used the easy way out. there is no reason why she had even one abortion,there is a thing called birth control. if you can not practice it then be wiiling to pay the price. it could be the best thing that could happen in your life. never take the easy way out like sherri sheperd. she totally disgusts me. step up. abortion is not birth control
sue Wednesday, 06 February 2013 01:37 Comment Link
"I didn't have the mental capacity to deal with having a child."

All available indications suggest Ms. Shepherd should have used the present tense.
Jack Tuesday, 02 October 2012 15:25 Comment Link
I love how all of the "good christians" are insulting people who don't agree with them. Is that what jesus did?
Angelique Sunday, 10 June 2012 02:34 Comment Link
I love Sheri Shepards enthusiasm but Einstein she is not! Anyone who has had more than 1 abortion either can't read or lives under a rock! As Burnadette says, has she not heard of condoms or birth control or God forbid the dreaded...abstinence? Having said thatm if she was stupid enough to make the mistake of getting pregnant before she wanted to then why should someone else have to "help" her out? People learn from their mistakes and maybe if she had the child she would have learned how NOT to keep getting pregnant (thus no need for further abortions) and learned how to pony up and be a good mother. We wouldn't be having this discussion if people were made to suffer the consequences of their behavior. Instead of being able to simply "get rid" of their mistakes. Having come from a poor family with an alcoholic father and loving hard working mother who raised us 3 kids completely alone, without the aid of welfare or any other help. In fact my mom didn't even drive. She took the bus or paid for rides from other people. Because of her example we learned that you have to pay for the mistakes of your bad choices in life My mothers mistake was choosing the wrong mate. It wasn't society's problem, no more than an unwanted pregnancy is. If someone choose's to be stupid and get pregnant or marry a loser, why does society feel bad for them and give them the out of an abortion, or feel sorry for them by letting them get on welfare? How about the idea that you made your bed, you lie in it. You all say the child is the one that suffers- I say the child suffers ONLY if the mom doesn't grow up at that moment and is allowed to just abort the mistake! Too bad she wasn't emotionally ready for parenthood! We need to hold people responsible for their choices in life, no one needs to bail them out, and the kids don't always suffer from not having enough financially or even emotionally. Some times they learn that money doesn't grow on trees, that you have to work for it. They learn that if you make a mistake it's yours and you need to make it right, not sweep it under the carpet! They learn that they have to grow up fast. If we as a society want to help people, lets help them be responsible for their actions!
SR Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:04 Comment Link
I'm disturbed by someone who says "I had a lot of abortions". As long as I can remember and I'm much older than Sherri, there has been access to birth control. As a child/teen who grew up on welfare, birth control be it the pill or condoms were readily and freely available or very cheap for those not on welfare. So someone who has "a lot" of abortions has been totally isolated from education on how you get and prevent pregnancy (I don't buy it), ignorant of resource availability (again I don't buy because after one or two abortions the clinic would have at least given them a box of condoms) or using abortion as a form of birth control. What I also find very interesting is the same people when they want the baby behave as though it's a living being the moment they find out they're pregnant. In contrast, when they don't want to have the baby (for reasons other than incest or rape) they rationalize that it's just a blob of tissue. I don't get it.
Burnadette Monday, 26 March 2012 21:17 Comment Link
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Where are all the people when you can't feed your child and have no one to help you financially, emotionally or otherwise? Come on people why make the child suffer because of our stupid mistakes.

I support Sherry %300. God knows your heart and let no man judge you because when it all comes down that won't be around to support you.
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Okay, as a Christian whom is also a scientist, let's get one thing straight. Unless a woman is engaging in partial birth abortion, the abhorrent practice of aborting a baby in the third trimester, the abortion is not affecting a FETUS. The fetal stage is the final trimester of pregnancy, the time when a fetus attains viability (the ability to survive independently from the mother.) The farther along a pregnancy gets the better the chances of survival. In the first trimester the baby is a zygote; in the second trimester it is in the embryonic stage, then finally, in the third trimester, it becomes a fetus.

So, the moral arguments for and against restrictions on abortions? Both sides have a point. It all depends on when one believes "personhood" is attained. Some strongly believe it happens at conception; others strongly believe it doesn't occur until viability is achieved. There's "evidence" to support both claims.

Bottom line? Sherri Shepard presented a valid argument, that those most opposed to abortion are usually overwhelmingly opposed to public assistance for poor children. This can't be side-stepped.... and it's the height of galling, un-Christ like hypocrisy. It's really easy to take a powerful stand for or against something that will never affect you (abortion being a good example); it's much more sacrificial to support Christ's mandate that we care for the poor. Moral majority? Cheerfully pony up, it's what Christ preached!
Shannon Wednesday, 15 February 2012 07:32 Comment Link