Madonna and abortion

Yep. She's had multiple abortions.

Other parts of this article (that I cut out) will be posted in the "Kids" thread eventually.

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For Madonna has in the past admitted to having had 'several' abortions as a young woman.

'Several sounds so many,' she told a television journalist in 1994, sounding chastened. The irony is that she spent her childbearing years not having children, and is finally embracing motherhood in her 50s.

Author Barbara Victor, who wrote a 2001 biography of the star, alleges that Madonna has had as many as 11 terminations since she was 18, most of them when she was a young singer and dancer struggling to make it in New York.

Victor says: 'There was a period when she was a struggling nobody, when it seems that Madonna used abortion pretty much as a method of birth control.'

Madonna's camp have never commented on the abortion stories, beyond denying that the total was 11. They were, however, unable to stop Victor going ahead with her book, Goddess.

'I had too much evidence, paperwork and too many interviews for them to keep it quiet,' Victor tells me.

She claims the first pregnancy Madonna terminated came during an affair with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in the Eighties. The relationship ended as Madonna had been seeing other men and also did not want to stay with Basquiat as he descended into heroin addiction.

Victor asserts that there were further abortions when she was with producer and songwriter Jellybean Benitez. Another was in 1990 when she was seeing Tony Ward, a bisexual model who starred in her Justify My Love video.

Some say she was told there were abnormalities with the foetus, others that she felt Ward, who was not faithful to her, was not father material.

In either case, with regret, she seems to have terminated the pregnancy. This was her wild period, and when she produced the book se.x in 1992, she said: 'It was my own personal rebellion against my father, against the way I was raised, against culture, against society, against everything.'

She even told an interviewer that she was haunted by the terminations she had undergone. 'You always have regrets when you make those kinds of decisions, but you have to look at your lifestyle and ask yourself: "Am I at a place in my life where I can devote a lot of time to being the really good parent I want to be?"

However, there appears to have been a final abortion when she was 39 and pregnant by penniless British film runner Andy Bird. In an interview, he said: 'I don't think she was sure how she felt. She was experiencing the same turmoil I was.'

:Her abortions are a very bad thing. But the other thing is how she got pregnant. It only proves that she was (and probbly still is) fucking with lots of a people.

Hi Anthony. I have a question. I am looking for the actual article from the Saturday times October 1996 source- that you refer to in this link. The article has some interesting stuff, other than the abortion issue. I would like to find it. Do you still have the link any any chance? I emailed the Sat times in London and they can't find it themselves or they will charge $ 40 per hour to find it for me. Ps I like reading comments on your website. It's very interesting.

Thanks for your time

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