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I am struck with this sense that people will read my story and judge me or look at me as someone who is uneducated or not smart enough to make…

He was my first sexual partner. We never used any contraception. I was an idiot and never imagined that I would become pregnant, but then I did.

Melinda’s story

I have had three abortions. Considering that I became sexually active at age 15 and knew then that I never wanted to give birth, and I am now 44, I…

My husband and I decided to have an abortion early in our marriage. We still prefer to remain childless. The pressure to explain our choice to not have children is…

I felt alone for years, until a friend I met in 2010 revealed she, too, had an abortion. Now I’m not alone.

I was sure on my decision. I don’t regret it. I just wish people would accept me, and not hate me.

I was a 23-year-old alcoholic and drug addict. By God’s grace, I went into rehab and got sober in April of ’92. I got pregnant the first week out of…

The pregnancy that I terminated was very much wanted and planned. But at 16 weeks, an ultrasound showed that there was not enough amniotic fluid.