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Sally Field is sharing her abortion story. In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday (Oct. 6), the 77-year-old two-time Oscar-winning actress shared the importance of electing Kamala Harris for President while detailing her “horrific” illegal abortion in Mexico back in the mid-1960s. Keep reading to find out more…“I’ve been so hesitant to do this, to tell my horrific story. It was during a time even worse than now. A time when contraception was not readily available and only if you were married. But I feel that so many women of my generation went through similar, traumatic events and I feel stronger when I think of them,” Sally wrote in the caption. “I believe, like me, they must want to fight for their grandchildren and all the young women of this country.” She continued writing, “It’s one of the reasons why so many of us are supporting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Everyone, please, pay attention to this election, up and down the ballot, in every state — especially those with ballot initiatives that could protect reproductive freedom. Please. We can’t go back!” Then in the accompanying video, Sally said, “I was 17. I had no choices in my life. I didn’t have a lot of family support in any way or finances. I had graduated from high school, but no one had ever said, ‘How about college?’” “I didn’t know what I was going to be and then I found out I was pregnant. Luckily, I had a family doctor who was a friend of the family, and he drove me and his wife and my mother in their brand new Cadillac to Tijuana,” Sally recalled. “We parked on a really scrunchy looking street — scary — and he parked about three blocks away and said, ‘See that building down there?’ He gave me an envelope with money and I was to walk into that building and give them the cash and then come right back to him. I guess he thought if I were dying, maybe he could help me.” The Steel Magnolias actress continued, “It was beyond hideous and life-altering. I had no anesthetic. There was a technician giving me a few puffs of ether, but he would then take it away, so it just made my arms and legs feel numb and weird — but I felt everything, how much pain I was in,” Field continued. “And then I realized that the technician was actually molesting me. So I had to figure out, how can I make my arms move to push him away?” “It was just this absolute pit of shame and then when it was finished, they said, ‘Go, go, go, go, go,’ like the building was on fire — they didn’t want me there; it was illegal,” Sally said. “My doctor … his generosity and his bravery, because he would have lost his license.” “A few months after that, I began auditions. I didn’t have an agent. I wasn’t really an actor; I’d been doing it in high school constantly. I began auditioning and by the end of that year, I was Gidget. I was the quintessential all-American Girl Next Door,” Sally added. “And the thing that I wrote about in the book, in reality, I was the quintessential all-American Girl Next Door, because so many young women, my generation of women, were going through this.” Sally concluded her video by sharing the importance of making sure younger women don’t have to go through the same experience she had to endure. “These are the things that women are going through now when they’re trying to get to another state, they don’t have the money they need, so they don’t know where they’re going,” Sally said. “It’s beyond — how you can go back to that and do that to our little girls and our young women and not have respect and regard for their health and their own decisions about whether they feel they’re able to give birth to a child at that time? We can’t go back. We have to all stand up and fight.” Sally just recently returned to Instagram for the first time in years and in her first posts, she not so subtly shaded former President Donald Trump.
