When I was 24, I had been in an unhealthy relationship for just over a year. During that year, I ended up pregnant not once, but twice. I chose to terminate the pregnancy both times, because I was in no way prepared to raise a child and, thankfully, I lived in a state where abortion … Continue reading
We’d been dating for three years. I was 25 and he was 26. We were clear about our position on the “what if I got pregnant?” question. No babies. I only wanted adopted children and he liked the idea of seeing what our genes mixed together would be like, but he was on board with … Continue reading
I have always been pro-choice since I was a young adolescent introduced to the concept of abortion. It was always easy for me to accept that we all have the right to decide for our own body. So when I became pregnant unintentionally in 2015, not even a year after having my second child, the … Continue reading
Last summer, due to a false negative pregnancy test in my first trimester, I didn’t learn about my pregnancy until I was 16 weeks along. I stopped getting my period, due to my birth control pill, about three months before I became pregnant, so I was used to having irregular to nonexistent bleeding. The pharmacy … Continue reading
At 21 years old I got pregnant. I got pregnant by someone who I wasn’t in a relationship with. Not that it matters, but he wasn’t the best person in my life. I decided to have an abortion. I was only 2-3 weeks along, again not that it matters. The doctor told me 8 weeks … Continue reading
I got pregnant with a man who cared nothing about me. I waited too long and had to have a later abortion. My state didn’t perform them that far into pregnancy so I had to travel out state to have it done. It cost my father thousands of dollars to do it. And it broke … Continue reading
It was painful and it sucked. I bled a lot, I cried a lot. It was the right choice and the only choice. I had two kids already and I did NOT need or want another. I was a single mom and my birth control failed. Nothing could have talked me out of it. Not … Continue reading
In August of 1974 I found myself 16 & pregnant. Yes, we used birth control, but it failed. My boyfriend of 4 yrs panicked & was useless. My parents were shaming. My mother felt I had brought the wrath of God upon her & my father just yelled “what have you done to us? What … Continue reading
I was 23 when I decided to get an abortion. I had just gotten married in May 2016 and I discovered that I was pregnant in late July of that same year. I immediately panicked. One night, as my husband and I were laying down to go to bed, I asked him if I could … Continue reading
After having been told I was infertile in my early 20s, I stayed on birth control as a precaution but didn’t think I could get pregnant. I was working happily in the restaurant industry when I found out I was pregnant. My husband and I weren’t ready to change our careers and where we lived, … Continue reading