Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown‘s wife, Amy Brown, opened up Wednesday about her experience having an abortion, as the Nevada Senate candidate pledged not to support a federal abortion ban if he is elected.
Amy told NBC News in an interview that in 2008, when she was in the Army and 24 years old, she had an abortion while 5 1/2 weeks pregnant. “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,” she explained through tears. According to the publication, this is the first time Amy has discussed her abortion with media.
“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,” she said.
“I got to a very dark place and I remember being in my room and crying out: ‘God help me,’” Amy described.
Sam Brown is the choice of Republican Senate leaders to take on Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in 2024, in what is considered one of the biggest GOP pickup opportunities in the upper chamber. The seat is rated as “Lean Democratic” by the Cook Political Report.
Abortion could play a role in the Nevada election as the Democratic National Party looks to promote the issue. But Brown could combat concerns over his abortion stances in the purple state. In the interview, Brown stood by Nevada’s current laws on the procedure, which allow abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. The veteran explained that states should dictate their own policies on the matter.
Not only does Brown support exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother, but he also claimed he would “close the door” on his potential support for a federal ban on abortion.
The Rosen campaign dismissed Brown’s stance on abortion as inconsistent with his past views, however.
“For the past decade, Sam Brown has opposed a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions and made those anti-abortion views clear in questionnaires, on tape, and as the local president of an extreme organization that supported Texas’ six-week abortion ban and called Roe v. Wade a ‘moral atrocity.’ Brown’s anti-abortion agenda is both dangerous for women and unpopular with voters, and he is only trying to lie about his actual record now because it’s an election year,” spokeswoman Johanna Warshaw said in a statement. “The truth is that Brown is a direct threat to Nevadans’ reproductive freedom, and he cannot be trusted to protect abortion rights in the Senate.”
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Amy said her choice to reveal her experience was “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.”
“My healing process was a long one … but part of that healing came from hearing the stories from other women,” she continued.
