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Sally Field recalls her ‘hideous’ illegal abortion at 17 as she urges voters to back Kamala Harris


Oscar-winning actor speaks about the ‘life-altering’ operation she underwent in Mexico with no anaesthetic in 1964: ‘How you can go back to that?’

Sally Field has spoken about the “hideous” and “traumatic” illegal abortion she underwent as a 17-year-old in 1964, as she called on voters to get behind Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election. The Oscar-winning actor first revealed her abortion in her 2018 memoir In Pieces, but wrote in the caption of her video, shared on Instagram, that she had “been so hesitant to do this, to tell my horrific story”. She thanked her doctor for his “generosity and bravery” in risking his licence by taking her to Mexico, and recalled that before the trip, she had never left her home state or been on an plane.

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