Press Statements

I was 23 when I had my abortion. I was on the pill but forgot to take it all the time so it wasn’t effective. I had been with my…

Siempre he estado a favor del derecho a decidir, pero nunca me imaginé que me iba a enfrentar a la elección que tuve que tomar. El embarazo que di por…

Tuve un aborto cuando tenía 19 años de edad.

I guess my story starts off like most do. I met a boy, fell in love, got pregnant, and had an abortion. That is the overly simplified version of events.

I cannot say that I am like most of the women on here. I deeply regret my abortion. In the prior 10 years, I would’ve told people differently.

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.