Having been raised in the Fifties, she said she felt “shame” about the experience, but felt it was important to share her story given the threat to abortion rights across states now that Roe v Wade has been decimated. Field said at the time she had no finances, not much family support, and while she had graduated from high school, “I didn’t know what was gonna be, and then I found out I was pregnant,” she said.
A doctor who was a friend of the family drove her, along with his wife and her mom, to Tijuana, Mexico, to what appeared to be a sketchy area.
The doctor gave her cash and directed her to a building down the street and told her to come back right afterward. She described the experience as “life-altering,” where she was not given full anesthetic.
“There was a technician giving me a few puffs of ether, but he would then take it away so it just made my arms and legs feel numb and weird. But I felt everything, how much pain I was in, and then I realized that the technician was actually molesting me,” she said of her compounding traumatizing experience. “So I had to figure out, how can I make my arms move to push him away? And, you know, so it was just, you know, this absolute pit of shame.”
“And these are the things that women are going through now, when they’re trying to get to another state, they don’t have the money, they don’t have the means, that they don’t know where they’re going,” she continued, adding that “We can’t go back. We have to all stand up and fight.”
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