courtney loveCourtney Love was reportedly advised to have an abortion when she found out she was pregnant with daughter Frances Bean Cobain.

Former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg makes the claim in his new memoir ‘Bumping into Geniuses’, saying a doctor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s chemical dependency unit advised her to get rid of the baby after she found out she was pregnant with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s child while battling heroin addiction: “he tried to give clinical advice, suggesting to Courtney that it was not a great idea to have a baby while dealing with addiction.

Goldberg explains that Courtney didn’t react well to the suggestion: “‘You’re not telling me to have a f***ing abortion, are you?’ asked Courtney, her voice rising with her trademark hostile whine. ‘I mean I’m pro-choice, but that doesn’t mean that anyone has the right to tell me to have a f***ing abortion.’

“[He] suggested that it might not be safe for the baby, and Courtney, who was only six weeks pregnant, went into a confrontational mode. ‘Is that a medical fact, or is that just your opinion? I want to see it in a medical book.’

“She was interested in medical facts, not a sermon. [He] sheepishly acknowledged that at this early stage of pregnancy a woman could discontinue heroin use with no physical or psychological damage to the fetus. Courtney looked triumphant as she towered over the doctor seated at his desk.”

Courtney stopped using heroin for the duration of her pregnancy and a perfectly healthy Frances Bean was born in August 1992.