Press Statements

  • Laura

    I was 23 years old when I got pregnant. I was neither emotionally nor financialy ready to have a child. My boyfriend, being catholic, did not agree with my decision…

  • Glennis

    I was 22, working and living in Manhattan. I used an IUD for birth control, but kept getting infections so my doctor took it out and gave me a prescription…

  • Amy

    When I was 32 I landed an Expat job for a 2 year stint in Australia. A single woman living in a foreign country an ocean away from friends and…

  • S

    I grew up in a very emotionally unhealthy family, I didn’t know about personal boundaries or that I could say no, stop.

  • Kate

    My birth control failed after taking two rounds of antibiotics. My boyfriend and I were on the verge of breaking up and were in a horrible relationship where neither of…

  • Jordanna

    When I was 18 I went through a bit of a rough patch, and did not have access to my birth control. I ended up becoming pregnant for the first…

  • Missy

    I am a 22 year old woman. I had an abortion – recently. It was the best choice I have ever made, although painful.

  • Anonymous

    I got pregnant shortly after my mother lost her grueling battle with ALS. It was a long, draining and emotional process that left me severely depressed and fragile.

  • Nancy

    It was 1979, and I was 18 years old. I was working as a night shift waitress at a Pancake House in Pittsburgh, and my then-boyfriend worked there too, as…