Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of An Abortion Addict

Ok so explain this to me as if I am a two year old. The grandmother tries to shoot people in the congress under the misguided belief that thiswill somehow free puerto rico of the colonial control of the united states. Killing people always gets you what you want. Ask Macbeth how well that plan worked for him. Shakespeare has a whole gallery of characters that are demented.Then later her own mother, who apparently was a wonderful person and very loving, commits suicide.She leaves behind the author and her brothers who both become drug addicts and definitely aren't coping well with life.So while this memoir or testimony as the author refers to it is honest, it is also scary and at times so illogical to read that one is left to wonder.Beckett says that writing is a sin against silence( or words to that effect). Anyone who feels the need to write and is talented should do it.While this memoir was honest it also wasn't helpful in explaining the behavior. Other than he said one thing and she did another and there was control going on here. She was under a spell. Intoxicated with man who was already in love with someone: Himself. The relationship was crowded from the beginning. And I wonder how these stories actually help women move away from men who treat them like slaves.Do these stories make other women feel like it is hopeless or worse inevitable.There is a book titled Love and Limerance. Love as a form of madness and obsession that produces illogical and destructive behavior.She kept destroying the children and when she spoke about waiting until the second trimester it made me wonder why she had never succeeded inkilling herself. This story is obscene and sad and also at times boring. When she is quoting what other people said to her or what she was taught byher lover those are some of the best lines. The rest was just pathetic noise that made me understand that abusing choice is utterly wrong. Not even the doctor asking her to consider his position and the risks he was taking to perform the abortions, not even that plea got her to stop. She could've had something implanted that wouldn't require her to remember to take a pill. Too complicated when you are consumed with what exactly. Distracted by the lover, she takes another lover. What was going on!!I wish her well and the irony is that she has two daughters now. Oh how strange life can be. This story while true and well written didn't really instruct so much as serve as a what a cautionary tale. I hope it does something positive rather than reinforce the belief that women somehow are at the mercy of the unworthy men they love.

For such a dark and controversial subject, Ms. Vilar writes with dignity and beauty. I believe the author is a courageous woman for writing about her experiences and to let us in on feeling her pain. It is impossible to not feel something as you read Ms. Vilar's words, whether it's sadness, anger, sympathy, love, hate, etc. And isn't that the point of reading others' stories? To feel and to learn, as long as you open your mind and open your heart. The book is beautifully written and I appreciate the author's honesty.

It's a fairly good book, but I think the abortion story is secondary to the main coming of age tale of Irene.

I really liked this book. The content and stories were interesting, and the protagonist is incredibly easy to relate to, even if you've never had an abortion, lived in Puerto Rico, etc.This book isn't really about abortion. It is about a woman's struggle with herself and the people in her life.9/10 would read again.

I was not let down by this book - I am pro-life, but this book offered a new perspective that gave me more understanding on what a woman can go through when dealing with the hard decision of abortion.

brave lady for sharing this story. it had me hooked

A haunting yet brilliant book! I could not put it down. Vilar offers a beautifully written work of her life's enormous challenges.

Kept my attention. This is a good read.

I think this is a very important story, which raises issues that are long overdue for an orderly discussion in our so-called enlightened, so-called first-world, society. I'm only a few chapters in, but I wanted to write my review now, in case I become paralysed as it unfolds.Firstly, I'd never heard of this book, or the author - but I've recently been introduced to Gloria Steinem, who mentioned them.There's an utterly brilliant foreward, where the main issues of Vilar's personal story - her grandmother was a revolutionary, her mother killed herself when she was eight, she was raised in Puerto Rico (but went away for periods to school in Spain the US), she was passed around the family and basically felt abandoned - are set out, in the context of the U.S.A's colonial treatment of Puerto Rico.It sets the potential for a discussion in the context of international policies on birth control and sex education (in particular, abortion statistics for women in Eastern Europe vs. the US & UK, vs. Puerto Rico).It is sobering, frightening stuff - and it should make a lot of women angry that around the world, other women's bodies (and therefore, the courses and potential of their lives) are being controlled by the state.It also means that their lives are being put at risk, because they're in a position where multiple abortions (including back street, of course) - instead of the 'luxury' of proper birth control - is the only effective 'family planning' open to them.In many ways, it reminds me of how I felt while reading 'Wild Swans' - you feel so much for the characters and the horrors they're enduring. Puts my 'first world problems' well into perspective.Here's a thought: how long do we have to wait for some benevolent ga-zillionaire to set up a (non-partisan, non-religious, non-political) foundation and just pump some money and resources into giving women a fair chance in life; through education and availability of a full range of family planning support?After all, they say that a happy world starts with "healthy women, happy kids". If Bill Gates can see far enough with his anthropological eye (let's not talk about the tax breaks!) to vaccinate kids in Africa, then who's gonna step up to the plate for their/our mothers, daughters, sisters, friends? We live in hope...PS: In the introduction to Gloria Steinem's autobiography, she dedicates it to a British doctor who performed an abortion for her when she was a student, about to travel to India. And she didn't turn out too bad, did she...? Go, the ladies!

This really is a sad book. It makes you wonder at some points how a mother carrying her child can be so cold and block her emotions. Also that she can continuously allow herself to become pregnant, knowing she will terminate the life. This does have a happy ending, this woman comes through this madness and is now happy.

Creo que Esta bien por la relación de calidad preció para los interesados en leer esta obra en su versión original......