I'm one of those rare women who have had an IUD fail. It was May my junior year of college. My boyfriend and I had just relocated to California for summer jobs when I figured out the highly improbable: I was pregnant.

One summer when I was 16, I had an abortion. I was brought up in a conservative Methodist home in Texas. I had gotten pregnant by my boyfriend at the time, we were young curious hormonal teenagers.

I have type 2 cancer of the left ovary and have been doing ongoing proton and radiation treatments since July 2012. I had an abortion in November 2012. I was 33 and he was 39. I live in Texas and he lives in Louisiana. I am also the only person in my family who lives in Texas.

I had an abortion February 17, 2012. I found out last week that the clinic I went to is being shut down. It's crazy to think about how much has changed in less than two years.

I was a dancer for eight years, from the time I was ten years old, and I was now eighteen. I was in a sexually active but abusive relationship, and was still getting regular heavy periods.

I bought the test and it ended up being positive. I wasn’t the most “regular” but somehow, that month I had known. When my boyfriend came home I showed him the test, while sitting on our bed.