{"id":1309660,"date":"2019-04-30T10:15:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1805961"},"modified":"2019-04-30T10:15:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:15:20","slug":"jay-demarcus-abortion-was-never-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/jay-demarcus-abortion-was-never-an-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay DeMarcus: \u201cAbortion Was Never an Option\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:339145?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">6m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>About five years before Rascal Flatts\u2019 Jay DeMarcus married Allison Alderson in 2004 and before they started a family, he had just started dating a woman in Tennessee. And after their first time together, she got pregnant, and they gave the baby up for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarcus <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/rascal-flatts-jay-demarcus-daughter-adoption-memoir-shotgun-angels\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">opened up<\/a> about that heart-breaking time in his life in his new <em>book Shotgun Angels: My Story of Broken Roads and Unshakeable Hope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbortion was never an option, so we began to discuss adoption,\u201d DeMarcus shared, saying that they\u2019d even discussed getting married and keeping the baby girl. \u201cMy heart finds satisfaction in knowing that she ended up with a wonderful family, but I\u2019ve had to live with this my entire life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe adoptive family was supposed to give her a letter when she turned 14, explaining that I loved her, did not abandon her, and have tried several ways to make it possible to be in her life.\u201d He says that his daughter would be about 20 now.<\/p>\n<p>And not only did DeMarcus suffer through the emotional decision-making process, he also felt the consequences from the music business. At the time, he was in a Christian band, but once word got our about the unplanned pregnancy, his ties to the industry were lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that sometimes life sends us reeling because of unexpected situations. But my heart in that moment, though scared, still desired to be in this beautiful child\u2019s life. My heart finds satisfaction in knowing that she ended up with a wonderful family, but I\u2019ve had to live with this my entire life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1805961\/jay-demarcus-abortion-was-never-an-option\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 6m ago About five years before Rascal Flatts\u2019 Jay DeMarcus married Allison Alderson in 2004 and before they started a family, he had just started dating a woman in Tennessee. And after their first time together, she got pregnant, and they gave the baby up for adoption. DeMarcus opened up about that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1309660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 09:34:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}