Britney forced into having an abortion by Justin Timberlake

[Jbrown76]

Apparently the song/video everytime is about her much wanted baby

www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12640995/amp/Britney-Spears-fell-pregnant-Justin-Timberlake-abortion.html

From your username I'm getting the slight feeling that you not a child star mousekateer cash cow who sold millions of records and did Vegas residencies and not had any sort of average life, in any way, as a child of adult

I'm also wondering if you've had significant mh difficulties, been made legally incapable of managing your own affairs, had your kids taken off you, and look smacked out on meds all the time.

What relevance would your circumstances and choices have to hers, or anyone else's for that matter?

There's reams of stories of women who describe being forced to give their babies up for adoption in decades gone by. No one is nitpicking them. But the defence of a partner seems to be the main focus for so many women here.

This is a very good point.

It's perfectly possible to force, coerce, manipulate someone into doing something especially someone vulnerable such as Britney.

Whether or not a baby was a good or bad idea is besides the point. It's quite possible that he forced her into having an abortion.

You think a man having a different opinion is a form of coercion?

A different opinion... What a charming way of phrasing it.

I think a man telling a woman he's impregnated who is inclined to continue a pregnancy that he is utterly opposed to having a child, won't support her or be there for her and will only do what he is forced to by law; has a very significant effect on her psyche and subsequent decisions. I think a lot of women have had terminations they wouldn't otherwise have had due to opposition and prospective abandonment by the fathers. I do think that is a form of coercion. They wouldn't have had them had he not been so opposed, and had they not known their baby would not have an involved father (unless he changed his approach after the child that he wanted aborted arrived, as many of these wankers do).

Her statement all but says she did it for him. Her words. Her experience.

Do we just write off women's versions of their own events now?

Or are you saying that JT promised her a child at a later date or threatened suicide?

Haven't got a clue.... I only know those are two of the most common approaches on the male dominated forum I was on for years, and on here.

The women (often wives incidentally) who would choose continue the pregnancy are regularly coerced with threats of mh issues from the implied/subtler end "I won't cope, I can't cope" to the outright threats of suicide. Many of those posters ended up having terminations.

I would consider them coerced.

But then I'd also consider the other end of the range .... Refusal of all support, abandonment etc. .. to be a form of coercion too.

If course it does. Doesn't actually say anything concrete...... But maybe the book will.

All to sell a book. Do you think this comes from her or her "advisors" on what is going to encorage sales. The full story will be just as vague.

Was she hell forced, she was a multi millionaire at that age ffs.

He got her pregnant too young and quite rightly and sensibly didn't want the kid. That's fine, there was absolutely nothing stopping her from going it alone like many women and girls do.......and baring in mind the fact she has more issues than vogue that meant she was unable to raise her 2 sons I think they made the right decision.

Money removes all vulnerabilities, got it.

Must be why rich people never ever have mh difficulties.

Forced? Hardly! She decided to abort and should stand behind that decision, because there is absolutely nothing wrong with it!

She shouldn't stand by it as her independent uninfluenced decision .... When it wasn't her independent, uninfluenced decision.

What does it matter that she was a multi-millionaire? Coercion takes many forms and money has nothing to do with control.

JT has controlled the narrative on his relationship with Britney for years, what makes you think he wouldn't also have had some control over this issue? She could have been hearing from him that he doesn't want this baby, won't support it, won't stand by her or marry her (which would have been expected as they were both originally from conservative families/communities), that it would ruin her/their image of being a clean-cut, virginal couple, that it would harm her career, that she'd be ruined, and so on. She could have been getting the exact same rhetoric from her managers and family too. Young woman, thinks she's in love with her first serious boyfriend and wants to do anything to keep him... bot at all outside the realm of possibility that she'd end the pregnancy to try and keep him happy.

This.

I think it's a credible scenario.

Literally came to post similar.

We are all influenced by the opinions of others, if we allow ourselves to be. But that does not equal being forced.

Given how clearly she has been controlled (financially etc) by the men around her, her dad etc, is it really surprising that she felt forced into this?

I believe she was manipulated if not out right forced.

Britney was the good girl, the virgin from the good Southern Baptist family.
Britney and Justin were the chaste all American couple, saving themselves for marriage.

I believe their management would have made them get married and pretend it was a honeymoon baby.

Is it even pressure, though? He didn't want to be a father. He was sure about that. What's wrong with that? She could have had the baby on her own and ended the relationship, but decided that continuing her relationship was more important to her than continuing the pregnancy.

That was her call that only she could make, but it's very wrong that now Justin is getting judged for not wanting a child.

I don’t even think this comes across as her blaming him. She’s just talking about a very difficult period in her life. If anything, it seems very accountable. To me this reads as though she is questioning whether or not she should’ve given his opinion the weight that she did in her decision making process.

Gosh that song hits harder

If I hadn't married the person I did, I wouldn't live in the house I live in, or the city or country for that matter. I wouldn't have the career I do. I wouldn't have bought the car I did. I'd go to different restaurants, and I wouldn't have had children when I did.

When you're in a relationship you sometimes take decisions together. Even when you make a decision alone, you are likely to take the other person's views into account if you're aware of them. None of that is the same as being "forced".

Ever since his reaction to janets bullying by the media. I always thought of him as a piece of shit. Not evil like russel brand or jimmy savile but a genuinely self serving little shit and he was not the hottest one in Nsync.

I don’t have an opinion on him either way in general, but I don’t see what he did wrong here. He expressed his opinion and preference, as he was entitled to do. Presumably she asked for his thoughts.

Having the right to choose isn’t the right to deny the other party their feelings on the issue, or the right to express them.

Yabu she made a decision why you saying she was forced. Odd post.

I have literally no idea! I’m just guessing.

Justin was cheating on Britney.