{"id":5868,"date":"2010-10-24T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T01:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2010-10-22T22:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:43:56","slug":"susan-boyle-docs-said-abort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/10\/24\/susan-boyle-docs-said-abort\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Boyle: Docs said ‘abort’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0From LifeSiteNews.com<\/a>, October 15 a frightening revelation: “International singing phenomenon Susan Boyle has revealed in a new autobiography that doctors had told her mother to abort her, because they thought the pregnancy was risky.<\/p>\n

\"\"Boyle soared to stardom in April 2009 after appearing on the UK television program, Britain\u2019s Got Talent, when the plain-looking Scotswoman shocked audiences with a powerful rendition of \u201cI Dreamed a Dream\u201d from the musical version of Victor Hugo\u2019s Les Mis\u00e9rables.<\/p>\n

But the 49-year-old native of Blackburn, a village in West Lothian, Scotland would never have dreamed the dream of singing on the international stage, if her mother had agreed to abort her on the advice of doctors.
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\nIn her autobiography, The Woman I Was Born To Be<\/a>, Boyle reveals that doctors recommended a \u201ctermination\u201d to Bridget Boyle, who already was a mother of eight children, because they feared physical complications.<\/p>\n

Boyle reveals that her mother rejected this advice as \u201cunthinkable\u201d since she was a \u201cdevout Catholic.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Boyle was born by emergency c-section, doctors did not tell her mother the usual \u201cCongratulations, Mrs. Boyle! A beautiful baby girl.\u201d Boyle wrote that doctors took a dismissive view of her life \u2013 especially when they suspected brain damage due to oxygen deprivation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c\u2018It\u2019s probably best to accept Susan will never be anything,\u201d Boyle recounted the doctors telling her mother. \u201c\u2018Susan will never come to anything so don\u2019t expect too much of her.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure they had the best of intentions,\u201d Boyle continued, \u201cbut I don\u2019t think they should have said that, because nobody can foretell the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article with links at, Susan Boyle: Docs Told Mum to Abort Me<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, ‘a mini opera of underdog triumph’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0From LifeSiteNews.com, October 15 a frightening revelation: “International singing phenomenon Susan Boyle has revealed in a new autobiography that doctors had told her mother to abort her, because they thought the pregnancy was risky. Boyle soared to stardom in April 2009 after appearing on the UK television program, Britain\u2019s Got Talent, when the plain-looking Scotswoman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}