All of these anti-abortion people have no idea what it's like...to be pregnant and abandoned and have no money and no support system. Sure, they'll urge you to stay pregnant, but when that baby comes, who is going to take care of you?

We were grateful that science was able to give us the facts we needed and grateful that a physician was there to support us in our very tough and personal decision.

In early December of 2006, a confluence of events caused a long-held dam to burst around my and my closest friend’s experience with our abortions (mine being 23 years earlier, in 1983, when I was 19).

Barbara's story.

I was with my now husband, then boyfriend. I went back and forth between a diaphragm and spermicide. I was very faithful about using birth control.Still, I wound up pregnant.

In the 1920s, my maternal great grandmother became pregnant for the third time. She did not want to raise a third child,  so she went to her ob/ gyn, who performed an abortion after my great grandmother promised to never tell anybody else.