Abortion Stories

I have been told that God can punish me for my abortions, but I know that God’s love doesn’t work that way. It was thanks to the 2 abortions that…

I think about how my life has a night shift nurse would be vastly different if I had not had my abortions. I would be struggling to find child care…

artifacts i think i got pregnant on this bedspread. a queen sheet, taken from the curb outside an anthropologie in soho. it covered a mattress found on craigslist.

In 2011, I proudly told my abortion story for the first time publicly via Advocates for Youth’s 1 in 3 story-telling project because I was inspired by the project to…

I was going into my senior year at a small private high school. I had many friends and a long-term boyfriend at the time; however, our relationship was not stable.

Things just aren’t what they are in the movies. I kept dreaming he would show up at my doorstep with flowers and beg me not to do it.

My story is simple. I got pregnant when I was 26 and did not want a baby then, or as it would turn out, ever. It was a careless mistake…

I was 19 years old and it was my first pregnancy. I used birth control always except once. I wasn’t in love and I wasn’t ready to have a child.

I never thought I’d be in the position, I was. I never thought it would happen to me. I didn’t know I was pregnant until I was just over 14…