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Anonymous
He was my first serious boyfriend and neither of us knew anything about birth control or pregnancy prevention thanks to the lack of accurate sex ed from our religious high school. I became pregnant within a few months of losing my virginity and had an abortion at 18.
12 years later, I am now married to the same man and working for Planned Parenthood as a communications manager. My office is in the same building that I had my abortion. Even though I have built a life I am proud of, filled with men and women who share my values about choice, I am still too afraid to tell anybody. The stigma is real.