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HOLLYWOOD, June 1, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Actress Stacey Dash has never shied away from talking about abortion, but not usually her own.

In her new autobiography, There Goes My Social Life, Dash reveals that she nearly had an abortion – until God told her to stop. When she heard His voice, she tore the IV out of her arm and bolted the abortion facility.

The 49-year-old “Clueless” star writes that she survived years of physical abuse and cocaine addiction before entering a relationship with Christopher Williams.

“When I got pregnant, I was doing a lot of drugs, and I didn't want to live. I wanted to die. I was going to have an abortion,” she writes in her autobiography, which was quoted in People magazine.

“I was crying and I said to God, 'Please tell me what to do.' And God told me, 'Keep your son,'” she writes. “I ripped the IV out of my arm and I said, 'I'm keeping my son.'”

She now has two children: Austin, who is now 25, and 12-year-old Lola.

For offering to abort one of them, Planned Parenthood made a lifelong enemy in Dash. Last year, she wrote on Patheos:

I am so sick of hearing Planned Parenthood and their abortion allies on the Left claim to be pro-women and pro-minorities. The facts just don’t back up their boasts.

If you are so pro African American communities, Planned Parenthood, stop targeting black women and aborting our children. If you care so much why don’t you start actually empowering women to love and care for their children no matter the circumstances they find themselves in. If you truly believe in African Americans, then start telling them they do have the power and ability to take care of their children and raise them instead of pressuring them to kill them in the womb.

Your bottom line is not worth the blood on your hands!

Much of the rest of her new book is harrowing, according to People.

In her memoir, Dash reveals that she was molested at age 16, the same year she was introduced to cocaine.

A rare Hollywood conservative, Dash came under fire for endorsing Mitt Romney in 2012. In her book, she speaks openly about how the welfare state enables addicts' self-destructive pathologies.

“When you get stuff for free, you have no self-worth. When you have no self-worth, you become depressed, addicted, and either abused or an abuser,” Dash, an abuse victim, says. “This is what perpetuates the cycle of violence in inner cities.”

“We don't need free stuff. We need opportunities,” she says.

But she found that opportunity and success alone were not enough. Even after getting her big break in the 1995 Alicia Silverstone film, and going on to star in numerous films and TV shows like “CSI,” Dash couldn't find fulfillment.

After years of abuse, she lived on resentment, letting it energize her. It gave her drive and determination in Hollywood, but it also propelled her into turbulent and unstable relationships.

Then, six or seven years ago, she found herself at a dead end. “Anger was unsustainable,” she told Bill O'Reilly in 2014. She had to find another energy source.

“I just got closer to God. I just decided to surrender,” she said.

When she rededicated herself to Jesus Christ and began practicing her Catholic faith, “Doors opened that I never thought would,” she said.

One day, Dash says, she plans to tell her children all the sordid details of her life, and make sure they know that it proves “there is nothing they can't overcome.”