I found out I was pregnant in May 2013. I was ecstatic, so was my partner. We had been trying for a baby for about a year.

I was 21 when I became pregnant with my third child, fathered by my alcoholic, physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive husband. Early in the pregnancy, after he was arrested for hitting me, I finally found the strength, and courage to leave him, and file for divorce.

My boyfriend and I had been using the pull-out method for almost a year since I went off the pill because of side effects. I figured if I got pregnant we were already talking about marriage and it would just be a little out of order. No big deal right? Wrong. I was so very wrong.

I had always considered myself to be cautious, when it came to protected sex and birth control, and to be honest I never thought I would experience an unwanted pregnancy.

I have had two abortions and I experienced each one in tremendously different ways.

It was last November that I found out I am pregnant. Here in my country its a taboo to get pregnant before marriage even having sex is forbbiden for unmarried girl or boy.