Sherri Shepherd: I "Had More Abortions Than I Would Like to Count"

Sherri Shepherd might have a hard time attracting men at the club these days, but before she converted to Christianity she led a promiscuous lifestyle that included "more abortions than [she] would like to count," she told the black Christian womens magazine Precious Times:

"Before I converted to Christianity, I was a Jehovah's Witness. In 1993, my mother was dying from diabetic complications. My sister was heavy into drugs, and we would have to go and get her from crack houses. I was in a very physically abusive relationship. I was sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count. I had very low self-esteem and just wanted to die. I felt if someone killed me, it wouldn't even make a difference. But God showed me that it would make a difference."

Sherri also told the magazine that some days, she wishes her "View" boss, Barbara Walters, would be "saved":

"Oh sometimes I say, 'Lord, Juanita Bynum or Joyce Myers would be so good at this table. They could lay hands on Barbara Walters and get her saved. I ask the Lord, 'Why am I here?' I have to trust God when He says, 'Because I said so.'"

Sherri's religion came into the spotlight last year after she was unable to grasp the concept of B.C. time, insisting "Jesus came first."

Comments

[haleywins]

Sorry to hear this, but that is a fact, for many women, African American, and poor, it is their only option.

Easy access to birth control, and general medical care, is a major problem.

[JanSP1971]

I am pro choice but........ Sherry had another option, THE PILL! Planned Parent Hood would have given them to her for FREE as they do all low income women.
People why do you still watch the View????????????

[DevilAdvocate]

no you didn't say this rasist crap!!! flag... What option? every black women is not having sex with thousands of men..... geeee. and no access is not... there are ways to get birth control and condoms.. heck places give them to you free! I resent this statment...

[Verified]

The vast majority of women who have chosen to have an abortion do so only once. Then they use their brains and are conscientious about birth control.

Just because this woman didn't have the sense or self-respect to make her partner wear a condom doesn't have anything to do with God. It has to do with stupidity. I'm glad that faith has turned her life around, and wish her well, but I hope she figures out that condoms are wonderful things. And that pregnancy is one of the least worrisome things she could catch.

[doodlefarbe]

"vast majority of women who have chosen to have an abortion do so only once"

Really?

Who Verified this factoid?

[haleywins]

How is the air up there, high and mighty?

You don't know what you are talking about.

[ZimboChick]

clearly u r not a woman or they have lied to u - A LOT

[lisakaz2]

God must be soooo proud. Yeek. I never knew JW's are so pro-choice....

[DevilAdvocate]

LOL they aren't... I think she left the faith or clearly was kicked out! If not then, she is now! LOL

[whillice]

Only someone as witless as her would be using abortion as birth control. She doesn't know if the world is flat, doesn't believe in evolution at all, thinks Chrstians came before the Greeks and Romans, and obviously thought you could have unprotected sex without getting pregnant.

Oh, and she thinks Jehovah's Witnesses aren't Christians? (Before I converted to Christianity, I was a Jehovah's Witness" ?) As those two things are mutually exclusive? Could've fooled me.......and it's not like JW's go around teaching that unmarried sex is the right thing to do.

Ignorance, ignorance, ignorance, then and now. The only difference is then she was a stupid kid. Now she is willfully ignorant because she could choose to learn and doesn't, and then spews her ignorance out to middle America. Thanks, The View! You've once again helped make our nation dumber!

[lisakaz2]

I saw that too. For all she knew she was a Druid. Apparently the elevator to Sharri's brain is pretty faulty, given nothing is older than Christiantiy anyway.

Geez, Sharri, you just brought a slew of Witnesses to your door to tell ya that yes they are Christians. Have fun.

[marylandtravelinman]

Agreed! And part of the reason religion is dangerous in the wrong hands is represented here.

[truthyguy]

Well said. All true.

[Lazycrockett]

Preach it!

[muffler]

So because she found the approach that works for her she things that it has to work and be for everyone else.

[ZimboChick]

yeah that self esteem stuff will mess u up if u aint careful so I am not going to judge re: the abortions

[ZimboChick]

Sherri darling I love you to pieces by Jehovah's witnesses are christians dear. Don't be saying stuff just for the sake of it ok? I still stan for yah!

[LeaveArtieAlone]

She took a very bad situation and (in her own way) made it positive. For that she be commended, HOWEVER, annoyingly she now feels she needs to “save” BW. That is just BS and the problem. People will find their own way to heal, they don’t need to take on anyone else’s way!

[CountryBeforeParty]

I'm glad you found something that gives order to your life meaning, Please use your new found spirit to help others do good things, in the name of doing good things.

God is in you, you are God

[westreal]

Oh, Lord.

Where is the tape? I'm having withdrawal without my SMOTD tape. I hope this reporter recorded this because I know Bawa Wawa ain't gonna be happy about someone sitting at her table trying to get her saved. .

[rememberMartinlking]

And you know Barbara personally, that she would feef this way?

[DallasMike]

Why is that news?
At least he found god.
I bet that pisses alot of you lefties off.

[Smirk]

He?

[Felicty]

Found God?

What, was She lost?

[going2ireland]

Finally, something has left me at a total loss of words!!

[Aabby]

I hate to judge but this does not do women’s issues any good and just horrible. My god! Abortion is a last resort sort of thing not contraception.

[Vinca]

I am a strong democrat, but I'm against abortion, but Repubs have never made a move to get rid of it, No woman will have an abortion just because it's legal, if it's illegal they'll go to a back alley, THE WOMAN THAT GETS ONE IS RESPONSIBLE

[edwarvir]

Thank God she got close to him and she is not like that now

GIRL FRIEND!!!! I love her on the Vew. Keep up the good work