Youth Testify Abortion Storyteller Beth Vial wrote about her 28 week abortion for Teen Vogue. In recent weeks, New York and Virginia have made headlines for their efforts to cut the medically unnecessary regulations on later abortion. The bills sought to ensure that people seeking abortions would no longer have to travel out of state … Continue reading
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
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