I'm 26. In 2008 I had a child who was born at 30 weeks. I had many complications, my kidneys almost failed, and my daughter ended up dying. After spending several years drinking and wallowing, I got my life together, I went to college, got a job at Planed Parenthood and began my life again.

My story is simple and almost normal. I was 17. The guy who I had been in a relationship with (both emotional and sexual relationship) had up and vanished without a text or call or even break up before I found out.

I was 20, days away from 21, when I found out I was pregnant. I was raised pro life and that I would go to Hell if did such a thing, however, I knew immediately I wanted an abortion.

I want everybody who has ever had an abortion to read this.
I had an abortion. I'm not ashamed. And I won't let myself hurt over it anymore.

I was 43 when I became pregnant for the first time. I had been sexually active, often without contraception, since my early teens and had begun to think that getting pregnant was something that just wasn't going to happen to me.

I have been with my boyfriend for about 2 years now. We know that we want to be together forever, but we are both in school right now. I am a freshman in my second semester, and he is a sophomore in his.