Press Statements

I was newly married and terrified when I became pregnant. I was unsure of my relationship and had come from a dysfunctional family that I was afraid to recreate.

Tuve a mi hija y nueve meses después quedé embarazada nuevamente. Eso fue un gran impacto. No pensaba en tener al bebé pero ese fue mi primer aborto y tenía…

I was on the patch, and my boyfriend and I used condoms, but I got pregnant anyway. Because of my history of very irregular periods, we did not know that…

I was 21, married, in the military, full time student, part time retail employee, and completely broke. My husband was going away on his first deployment.

I had my first abortion when I was 22 in Berkeley CA in 1973. I was on SSI for depression and my 19 year old boyfriend had already made his…

I was 21 in early 1988 and recently separated from a mentally-abusive husband, whom I had foolishly married at 18 to get out of my alcoholic and abusive parent’s house…

I was thirteen years old, and I lost my virginity to a 23-year-old man I felt like I knew well. A friend of the family.

I’ve always been extremely careful since I became sexually active because I don’t want to have the difficult decision of having an abortion.

I was only 19 when I was manipulated into placing my first child for adoption. I faced being homeless or staying with my boyfriend, an older man who regularly beat…