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CV NEWS FEED // In his new memoir, actor and producer Kelsey Grammer details the regret he experiences over the abortions of two of his children. Referring to the first one, he writes, “Though I have supported it in the past, the abortion of my son eats away at my soul.”
Grammer recently published Karen: A Brother Remembers, a memoir about his younger sister, who was raped and murdered, People Magazine reported. In the memoir, he writes about his experiences involving the two abortions.
In 1974, Grammer’s girlfriend became pregnant. He wrote that he was willing to take care of his son, but his girlfriend did not want to, so he did not pressure her to keep the baby.
“I supported the idea that a woman has the right to do what she wants with her own body. I still do,” he writes. “But it’s hard for me. Still is.”
Six months before his own sister died, Grammer writes that he “volunteered to have my son’s body vacuumed out of his mother’s. I regret it. That’s all I meant to say.”
He also criticized the doctors who perform abortions, writing, “the doctor, or so-called doctors, who have executed generations of children in this manner — I have no idea how they call themselves doctors. Something about the ‘first, do no harm’ thing. But I offer no controversy.”
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Grammer also wrote that doctors pressured him to abort one of the twins — a little boy and girl — that he and his current wife, Kayte Walsh, were expecting.
The boy’s amniotic sac ruptured at 13 weeks.
“Doctors advised us his continued growth without the safety of his amniotic fluid would surely kill him and probably take Faith too,” Grammer writes. “It did not repair.”
He added that he and his wife prayed about the decision and followed the doctor’s advice.
“We killed our son so Faith might live. We wept as we watched his heart stop,” Grammer recalls in the memoir. “It is the greatest pain I have ever known. Kayte’s scream was enough to make a man mourn a lifetime.”
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