Amy Brown, who’s married to pro-life U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown, a Republican, spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about how in 2008—the year the two met—she had an abortion at five-and-a-half weeks, and that she regretted it.
“I just felt this immense amount of pressure that I had to do it. I felt all alone. I felt really overwhelmed, and I also felt a lot of shame,” Amy Brown told NBC News alongside her husband. “In that moment, I felt like my back was against a wall, and the walls were closing in, and I had one door out—and so I pursued that door.”
“I’m sharing my story today so that I can provide awareness for what it’s like to live in my shoes, for women who have chosen to have abortions, and also just to provide awareness to women … that they can take a break, they can take a minute, they can process and hopefully know that they have options,” she added. “My healing process was a long one… but part of that healing came from hearing the stories from other women.”
When Brown informed her now-husband of what had happened, she said she “could tell that Sam understood that this hurt, and that it was a very difficult decision, and that it was one that I regretted.”
Sam Brown, a self-described “personally pro-life” candidate for U.S. Senate in Nevada, stated his support for exceptions in the case of rape, incest, and life of the mother, and reiterated that he opposes a national abortion ban.
