Press Statements

I was in my early 30s and in a relationship and we had been using condoms. I had not been on the pill but things can and do happen.

I started seeing a therapist again after my abortion. She tells me it’s OK to talk about this, but I know I’m not supposed to.

When I needed to decide whether to carry my third pregnancy full-term or have an abortion, I already had two sons and would have loved to try for a daughter.…

It was something I needed to do at the time I did it.

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…

I’ve always been pretty proud of my relationship with my body. I listen to it, I love it, I touch it, I know it. At least until my nurse told…

One in three American women will have an abortion in her lifetime. I am one of them. At 23 years old I found myself faced with an unintended pregnancy. I was…

I got pregnant the first time I had sex. I know because that’s the only time we didn’t use birth control. I didn’t even think that was possible–the very first…

I was 18 years old, and had only been in the military for less than a year. I had lost my virginity less than a year before all this. A…