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Kelsey Grammar's Abortions · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mamas, did
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  Speaker 1: you read Kelsey Grammar's reaction to his girlfriend having an abortion?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mama's alma.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now our American mama Terry Nedderville. Kelsey
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  Speaker 1: Grammer one of my favorite actors. Really. I love him
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  Speaker 1: in Frasier, when he was on Cheers, when he had
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  Speaker 1: his own show. I've loved him in a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different movies.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And what was it, the Jesus Freak movie? What was that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jesus Revolution. Right. He was great in that.
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  Speaker 1: He's just there's so many you knows an X Men
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  Speaker 1: and all this other stuff, so many great roles from
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey Grammer. So he has a new autobiography about out, which,
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  Speaker 1: first off, the subject matter of the autobiography is difficult
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  Speaker 1: because he talks about his sister, who was raped and
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  Speaker 1: murdered at the age of eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 1: I really I don't want to, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: ever want to have to.
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  Speaker 3: And I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't aware that that part of his history.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the title of the book is like
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  Speaker 1: a brother never forgets or something like that. But he
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  Speaker 1: talks about loss a lot in the book, and one
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  Speaker 1: of the things he talks about he talks about two
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  Speaker 1: different times when there was an abortion of his child,
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  Speaker 1: and one was in the nineteen seventies. Nineteen seventy four,
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  Speaker 1: I think, so this would have been just a year
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  Speaker 1: after Roby Wade. His girlfriend at the time not wife,
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend was pregnant and she said, I want to have
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  Speaker 1: an abortion, and he didn't stop her. He said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I believe in a woman's right to choose.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine, but I didn't want her to think that
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  Speaker 1: I was overbearing. But at the same time, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: argue for the life of my child, and I regret
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  Speaker 1: it to this day. When you read that, what did you.
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  Speaker 3: Think, Well, my first thought was, you know, he was
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  Speaker 3: young too, who's at Juilliard. So I'm sure at the
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  Speaker 3: time he was almost relieved that, you know, you know
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  Speaker 3: how life and experiences kind of change you. I think
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  Speaker 3: at the time he was thinking, oh, you I don't
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  Speaker 3: have to worry about that, because he didn't allow himself
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  Speaker 3: to go further and think about a life that was
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  Speaker 3: actually being taken.
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  Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of people that have
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  Speaker 1: that mindset.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, for sure. And you know, Kelsey's one of
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  Speaker 3: the conservatives in Hollywood that it's known. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: shove it in your face, you know. But he said
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  Speaker 3: he was talking about the nineteen seventy four issue when
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  Speaker 3: he said, I never wanted her to accuse me of
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  Speaker 3: being unwilling to have the child. But I also did
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  Speaker 3: not plead with her to save his life. I supported
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  Speaker 3: the idea that a woman has the right to do
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  Speaker 3: what she wants with her own body. I still do,
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  Speaker 3: but it was hard for me. Still is a child's
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  Speaker 3: right to exist? Of course life? Yes, So then he
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  Speaker 3: goes on to talk about his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Now this one is even tougher.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is heartbreaking. I mean both of all
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  Speaker 3: of It's heartbreaking even for the win in because I
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  Speaker 3: know friends who made that decision, and at the time
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  Speaker 3: it was one of those few. Okay, you know, this
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  Speaker 3: is better for everybody, right, But then as life goes on,
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  Speaker 3: they never they suffer. They suffer from the the idea
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  Speaker 3: of it, the trauma of it that they didn't even
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  Speaker 3: know they experienced at the time. Right, But this one
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  Speaker 3: was his wife was pregnant with twins, and the doctor
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  Speaker 3: is the one who suggested, Hey, this this one. Actually
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  Speaker 3: there was a problem, right.
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  Speaker 1: I think that the fluid sack something burst and they
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  Speaker 1: were at the risk of losing both of the twins, right,
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  Speaker 1: And the doctor said, I think we need to have
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  Speaker 1: an abortion on this baby to save the life of
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  Speaker 1: the other baby.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, And that's a hard decision.
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  Speaker 1: That's a hard decision. And this is one of those
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  Speaker 1: you know, the pro choice movement uses this type of
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  Speaker 1: an example as to why abortion should be legal. What
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  Speaker 1: they're missing is in every state that has outlawed abortion,
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  Speaker 1: there are there are except for when the life of
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  Speaker 1: the mother is at risk, right, and this would be
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  Speaker 1: one of those potential cases. But wow, this seemed even
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  Speaker 1: harder than most abortions of it.
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  Speaker 3: Much harder. And let me just preface it by saying
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  Speaker 3: that some people are given that advice by their doctors
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  Speaker 3: and they choose, Look, I'm gonna let God handle this.
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  Speaker 3: And the baby comes out completely healthy. That's true, and
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  Speaker 3: they're so relieved. So you've got that, you've got a
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  Speaker 3: weigh so much. But this is the heartbreaking part. He said,
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  Speaker 3: faith the daughter was born healthy. Then he says, this
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  Speaker 3: we killed him, our son. We killed our son so
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  Speaker 3: Faith might live. We wept as we watched his heart
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  Speaker 3: stop saw it. It is the greatest pain I have known.
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  Speaker 3: So imagine and then okay, so on top of that, Stephen,
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  Speaker 3: imagine that would if that go through your mind for
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  Speaker 3: the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what if the baby?
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  Speaker 3: What if our son would have been born healthy as well?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: What if the doctors are wrong like they've been in
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  Speaker 3: the past and God takes care of it and things
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that would kill me like they probably
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  Speaker 3: maybe the doctor was like, listen, you'll lose both of them,
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  Speaker 3: which I can't even imagine having to make that decision.
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  Speaker 3: And they probably made a decision that ninety percent of
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  Speaker 3: the people would make, so that at least Faith would live.
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  Speaker 3: But then you're left with the what ifs'.
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  Speaker 1: The nagging, oh, the thought.
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  Speaker 3: My heart breaks for them.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I think it's very brave for Kelsey Grammar, a
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  Speaker 1: conservative rights to come out and talk about the abortions
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  Speaker 1: of his children and to be that vulnerable and to
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  Speaker 1: be that honest with people.
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  Speaker 3: And he also makes it clear he didn't really tell
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  Speaker 3: other people what to do or what to believe, which
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  Speaker 3: is important. Same with me. I'm pro life, but i'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to you know, I'm not going to shove
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  Speaker 3: it in your face all the time, but I am
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  Speaker 3: definitely going to try to. I'm going to try to
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  Speaker 3: help you choose life. If you like.
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  Speaker 1: the ass of the Mama's button. Terry Neediville, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you