A woman who is a self-described “abortion addict” has written a book in which she details having 15 terminations over 17 years.
In her book called Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict, Irene Vilar (pictured above), 40, said she got pregnant and had the abortions as a way of rebelling against her “controlling” husband who didn’t want children, according to the Daily Mail.
From the age of 16 until 33, Vilar ended the pregnancies and also attempted suicide several times. She claims that her husband, a 50-year-old Latin American literature professor, told her that having children killed sexual desire. So she stopped taking her birth control pills as a way of defying him.
“But slowly, my days took on a balancing act and there was a specific high. I would get my period and be sad, then discover I was pregnant, being afraid, yet also so excited,” Vilar said.
She said she carried out the abortions so that her husband wouldn’t end their marriage, but isn’t clear about whether he knew of them or not. “Of course, this did not mean I wanted to do it again and again … A druggie also wants to stop every time,” she added.
Vilar eventually left her husband after 11 years and remarried in 2003. She now lives in Denver and has two children and two stepchildren.
“Women have written memoirs about their anorexia or their bulimia, and they explain the best that they can what motivated their addiction or their behavior. I try to do the same in this book,” she said.
