Press Statements

This past spring, my sophomore year in college I missed my period during finals week.

I was 17 at the time and my birthday was a month away when I found out that I was pregnant. Me and my boyfriend had been together for a…

I was drunk with a group of who I thought were my friends. I followed him to the room to talk, and things went further than I wanted.

I had an abortion when I was 18. The man who would later become my husband and had gotten me pregnant. We were young and not always as careful as…

The minute I had my daughter, I knew that the two abortions I had had previously (1 at age 17, 1 at age 26) were absolutely the right choice for…

I had my first abortion when I was 16 after getting involved with a divorced neighbor I had babysat for who was 16 years older than me.

The first 16 years of my life were something out of a Lifetime Channel movie; alcoholic, misogynist, abusive stepfather, enabling and psychologically damaged mother, and a spoiled, bratty, but obedien…