In an interview with BBC radio program, Desert Island Discs, Yoko Ono, wife of late Beatle John Lennon, revealed that she had considered abortion when she became pregnant in 1975 with son Sean.

Yoko explained to Kirsty Young how, when she found that she was pregnant at the age of 42 in 1975, she considered having an abortion.

She and John Lennon had just become reconciled after an 18-month separation, and, as she explained on the programme, she “didn’t know if it was the right moment to have a child. I just didn’t want to burden him with something he didn’t want”.

Lennon’s response was, she said: “Of course we’re gonna keep it.” It was “like he was really upset with my remark. And, I thought, well, we’ll go ahead with this”.

How does she feel about the decision now?

She is, of course, eternally grateful now that between them they made that decision. Less than six years later John would be dead, shot down by a mad fan on the pavement outside their apartment. And Sean would, for Yoko, become a living, growing embodiment of his father.

It’s hard to tell right away, especially in the face of a so-called “crisis pregnancy”, God’s reason for granting the gift of life, but if we don’t give that life a chance we may never find out.

Beautiful Boy – John Lennon’s song about Sean

H/T: Mother May I Be Born