Interview With Jennifer O'Neill.

(From Fox News Channel)

Byline: Bill O'Reilly

O'REILLY: In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, tomorrow marks the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the abortion decision. Last night, we had pro choice guy on THE FACTOR. So tonight, to be fair and balanced, we present the other side. Joining us now from Washington is actress Jennifer O'Neill, the national spokesperson for the pro-life group Silent No More. Ms. O'Neill did undergo an abortion, which she wrote about in her book, "Surviving Myself." We're very pleased to have you on here, Ms. O'Neill.

JENNIFER O'NEILL, ACTRESS: Oh, it's such a pleasure.

O'REILLY: Why don't you just tell the audience what happened to you and why you formed this opinion?

O'NEILL: Well, I -- when I wrote the book, I had to sort of go back over my life. And when I dealt with the fact that I had had an abortion in my early 20's, I actually married when I was 17, had my daughter when I was 19. So I was already a mom. And I was engaged at the time, became pregnant. And in my case, I was thrilled about it. The women I speak with all across the country, each has their own story as unique as their own DNA. But my story was that I became pregnant and I was very excited about the baby, but the dad wasn't. And to put it in -- in a short form, I folded under the pressure. He did not want to have the child. I was told by my doctor that the -- my pregnancy was just a blob of tissue. There were no ultrasounds at that time to see that it's a baby. And a lot of pressure. So I folded emotionally and had the abortion and kept it in secrecy. Shrouded in secrecy, self-loathing, didn't sit with me right, even though everybody was saying it was nothing. It wasn't nothing to me, and I was rather the poster child of what happens to millions and millions of women, not everybody... O'REILLY: Did you... O'NEILL: ... but I regretted my abortion. O'REILLY: Did you have emotional problems because of it?

O'NEILL: Yes, I did. I -- and if you look at statistics, women have higher rates of alcoholism, drug abuse, ways of being numb. They have difficulties in ongoing, intimate relationships, with their marriage, relating to the children they have. It's a very devastating thing to a lot of women. And now we're -- I'm the spokesperson for the National Silent No More Awareness Campaign. Really just -- it's a nonpolitical, nondenominational group to bring truth of -- from those who have had abortion and have suffered, some in silence for 30 years, where the average denial rate is about five years. O'REILLY: Right. Well, I know a lot of women who had abortions who feel the same way that you do. O'NEILL: Yes. O'REILLY: I have to be honest, but I -- I do know some women who are very cavalier about it as well. O'NEILL: That -- that's true. O'REILLY: Now was your guilt based on religion at all?