Marcella
I'm 52, childless and single. I terminated my only 2 pregnancies and only now know for sure that I did the right thing.
I'm 52, childless and single. I terminated my only 2 pregnancies and only now know for sure that I did the right thing.
Before I had my abortion I scoured the internet for stories about the procedure: how long, how painful, etc. Aside from a video of a young woman who calmly undergoes an abortion, making it seem like no big deal, the pain and procedure information was hard to find.
I was raised in the Mormon church, and had been told to always be a good girl, and learned how to be codependent at a very early age.
I saved the ultrasound picture in a dated envelope, stuck it in a drawer and just as I closed the drawer - I closed out that moment in my life. They asked if I planned to continue with the pregnancy, at the tender, scared and reckless age of 18, in a low whisper, I said, “No.”
I have had 2 abortions, one when I was in my mid twenties, unmarried and living with my boyfriend. We were career minded and wanted to be married before we had our first child. I had no guilt, no remorse.