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Amy Brown, who’s married to pro-life U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown, a Republican, spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about how in 2008—the year the two met—she had an abortion at five-and-a-half weeks, and that she regretted it.“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,” Amy Brown told NBC News alongside her husband. “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.”“I’m sharing my story today 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 tak...