I am so happy that my life mattered in my home state. I would not be able to continue my dreams.

I am so blessed I had the resources and could make that decision. No woman makes this choice lightly.

To all of the people that say that abortion complications are a reason to rob people of the right to have abortions: I had abortion complications and I never once have regretted my decision to have an abortion. I am grateful to be in a position now in which I spend my full-time job advocating for abortion access.

After a few weeks, I had a mikveh ceremony with my friends to commemorate the budding life that sprouted in my body, and my decision that it wasn't time yet.

If I had a child with my abuser, my child's life would have been broken from the start. That's not fair to them or me.

The first abortion I had been careless with my boyfriend because I didn't think I was fertile. Most of my friends had more than one abortion and at 25 I was starting to think I couldn't get pregnant.