During the interview, they asked their father about his tough upbringing, including that his mother, Jackie Stallone, โwas nervousโ to have him โ and this interaction revealed something they didnโt expect.
โYou had said that your mom was nervous to have you,โ said Sistine. โShe didnโt want you, right?โ
โNot at all,โ replied Stallone. โMy mother would say, โThe only reason youโre here is because the hanger didnโt workโ or โbouncing down those steps didnโt cause you to get lost.’โ Based on these remarks, it sounds as if Stalloneโs mother had tried to kill him in at least one, perhaps multiple, DIY abortion attempts.
At this revelation, his daughters were visibly shocked, with Sistineโs jaw dropping open.
He added, โAnd she said that, โYou know, truthfully, Sylvester โฆ you know, if there was really something wrong with your brain, I would have definitely opened up the window and put you on the windowsill and let you freeze because Iโd be doing you a favor.’โ
Sophia replied, โWhat type of mother says that to their child?โ
Stallone, however, with compassion, went on to offer an explanation for his motherโs abortion attempt as well as the emotional abuse and neglect she inflicted on Stallone during his childhood.
โMy mother, she was was a troubled person. She was put into an orphanage, you know, and a very cruel orphanage because her father had remarried and the new stepmother hated her,โ he explained. โAnd I think my mother was also kind of rebellious. So she was put into an orphanage that โ itโs unlike the ones they have today. It was, you know, youโre tied to the bed, youโre whipped, and youโreโฆ she was terribly molested. And I think her ability to ever show love was short-circuited. She literally couldnโt stand to be touched or touch at all. I mean, not even a hug.โ
He said this affected his own relationships, as he didnโt like to be touched either โ because โaffectionโฆwas so alienโ to him that it made him uncomfortable.
Though seemingly unrelated to the abortion attempts, Stallone reportedly had a traumatic birth as well. The doctor used a pair of forceps to deliver him, which severed a nerve on his face and paralyzed the left side of his lip, chin, and part of his tongue, causing his face to droop.
โEven though she was nine months pregnant, she kept riding around on the bus,โ he said of his mother and his birth. โAnd she went into labor. Somebody was smart enough to get her off the bus, they carried her into a charity ward. And thatโs where I was brought into the world via this accident, which kind of paralyzed all the nerves on the side of my mouth. So I was born with this snarl.โ
Stalloneโs story shows that a motherโs opinion on whether or not she โwantsโ her child has nothing to do with the childโs humanity, right to life, or value. Stalloneโs daughters โ who would not exist if Stalloneโs mother had successfully killed him โ clearly want him as their father.
Stallone is not alone. He survived an attempted self-abortion prior to the legalization of abortion in the United States, and babies are still surviving abortions today. Many are left to die, some are killed, and some are saved and adopted, and speak out against abortion.
Only a handful of states require instances of abortion survivors to be documented, but Live Action News found 220 cases of abortion survivors reported from 1999-2023 in just eight states. Because of a failure to require states to report abortion statistics or survivors, and abortionistsโ attempts to hide their โfailed abortions,โ that number is almost certainly substantially higher.
By Nancy Flanders | August 28, 2024 | LIVEACTION NEWS
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