Oscar winner Sally Field has recalled her "horrific" experience having an illegal abortion as a teenager.
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00:30I feel still very shamed about it because I was raised in the 50s and you
00:37know it's it's ingrained in me and I was 17 I had no choices in my life I didn't
00:46have a lot of family support in any way or finances I I'd graduate from high
00:53school but had no no one ever said go how about college about it you know I
00:56nothing
01:05what we parked on a on a really scrunchy looking street scary and he parked about
01:14three blocks away and said see that building down there and he gave me an
01:18envelope with money and with cash and I was to walk into that building and give
01:23them the cash and then come right back to him
01:34and I then when it was finished they said go go go go go like like the
01:42building was on fire and they didn't want me there you know it was it was
01:47illegal
01:56and it it's it's beyond how you can go back to that and do that to our little
02:06girls and our young women and not have respect and regard for their health and
02:14their own decisions about whether they feel they're able to give birth to a
02:22child at that time it's we can't go back we can't go back we have to all stand up
02:30and and fight