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Ronaldo’s mother speaks about about almost aborting her son

Mother of football star Cristiano Ronaldo has spoken out about almost choosing to abort her son.

In the documentary Ronaldo, the footballer’s mother, Maria Dolores, admitted that when she fell pregnant with Cristiano, she did not want another child.

She said in the Ronaldo documentary: “He is a child that I wanted to abort”.

“God didn’t want that to happen and I was blessed because of that”.

“Sometimes Ronaldo makes fun of me and says ‘You didn’t want me to be born. But now you see that I’m here helping all of you.’ And, well, sometimes we have a laugh about that”.

The film explores Ronaldo’s life as a ‘family man’, focusing on his relationship with his youngest son, five-year-old Cristiano Junior.

Ronaldo has maintained a close relationship with his mother over the years, but his relationship with his father, Dinis, who passed away aged 53 in 2005, was strained due to the latter’s issues with alcohol.

“I cried every day”, said Ronaldo. “People say we have money and cars but we suffered”.

He added: “He would drink nearly every day. It frustrates me that he was never able to see my successes”.

Ronaldo was given a three-day trial with Sporting Lisbon aged 12, who signed him for just £1,500.

However, three years into his stay with them, his career was plunged into question after he was  told he had an irregular heartbeat.

While his condition is usually harmless, it may occasionally lead to dangerous complications, and after a series of medical examinations, young Ronaldo had to undergo corrective surgery.

Ronaldo recently returned to Manchester United as the highest-earning player in the Premier League, where he is reportedly paid over £26 million per year.

A spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said: “It is great to hear about how Ronaldo’s mother later decided against aborting her son. However, such cases cannot help but make one reflect on the many mothers who decide to terminate their pregnancies, and the subsequent loss not just of an individual talent, but of the joy, talent and genius each baby has the potential to offer the rest of the world. It is sad that Maria had to worry about financial pressures when she discovered she was pregnant, and it is the duty of every society to do its very best to help women in crisis pregnancies”.

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Thanks to the hard work and dedication of people like you across the UK, the McArthur assisted suicide Bill in Scotland was defeated in March by 69 votes to 57.

Then, in April, the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill fell in the House of Lords.

Many commentators thought both Bills would become law.

If that had happened, governments in England, Scotland and Wales would now be preparing to roll out assisted suicide services.

Over the coming decades, this would have led to the deaths of many thousands of vulnerable people.

But that is not what happened.

Because supporters like you acted, those Bills were stopped.

Because of you, many vulnerable lives have been saved.

These were two very significant victories. But sadly, they are not the last battles we face this year.

The new Parliamentary session began on Wednesday. We now face three major threats.

  1. Attempts to bring back the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill and bypass the House of Lords

    The assisted suicide lobby, led by Dignity in Dying, a multi-million-pound pressure group, has made it clear that it is going to attempt to bring back the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill in the next parliamentary session.

    It then plans to use the Parliament Acts to bypass the House of Lords and force the Bill into law.

  2. Labour Government plans for a major expansion of abortion provision, including financial incentives for ‘lunch-hour’ abortions

    Under these plans, the Government would financially incentivise major abortion providers, BPAS and MSI Reproductive Choices, to provide ‘lunch-hour’ or ‘same-day’ abortions.

    ‘Lunch-hour’ abortion services are walk-in abortion services designed to fit into a woman’s lunch hour.

    Women facing an unplanned pregnancy need time, care and support, not a system that gives abortion clinics a financial incentive to rush them through consultations, scans and abortions on the same day.

    If these plans go ahead, many more lives are likely to be ended by abortion here in the UK.

  3. Extreme abortion up to birth proposals in Scotland

    In Scotland, plans are moving forward to introduce an extreme abortion up to birth law. This would go far beyond the abortion law change recently backed by the Lords for England and Wales.

    A review of abortion law in Scotland, commissioned by Humza Yousaf when he was Scottish First Minister, recommended that the Scottish Government scrap the current 24-week time limit – and abortion be available on social grounds, including for sex-selective purposes, right up to birth.

    The final plans are expected to be brought forward as a Government Bill in the new Scottish Parliament, which begins this Thursday.

If these three major threats succeed, thousands of vulnerable lives will be lost.

We cannot allow this to happen.

We can only defeat these three major threats with your help.

We ran our biggest campaigns ever to help defeat the assisted suicide Bills at Westminster and in Scotland.

That work has made a serious dent in our limited resources.

To cover this gap and ensure we can effectively defeat these three major threats in the coming months, we are aiming to raise at least £199,250 by midnight this Sunday (17 May 2026).

We are, therefore, appealing to you to please give as generously as you can.

Every donation, large or small, will make a crucial difference in saving the lives of the unborn and many others. Plus, if you are a UK taxpayer, £1 becomes £1.25 with Gift Aid at no extra cost to you.

By stopping these threats, YOU can save lives during this new Parliamentary session.

Will you donate now to help protect vulnerable lives from these three major threats?

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