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A COLD DAY IN JANUARY

I grew up in a somewhat religious house hold but a very religious city. I was 16 and I was dating a 23 year old.. gangster.

It was seven years ago, I was 25. I still have the questionnaire from the doctors visit. One question asked “Do you want to be pregnant? Yes/No.” I put an…

I’ve been pro choice since I was old enough to understand the politics of abortion. I found out I was pregnant at 18 and made the decision to parent. I…

I have been pregnant 7 times–had 2 abortions, then a child, then another abortion, then another child, then a 5-month-along miscarriage, then my last child, and I got my tubes…

I was seventeen when I had an abortion. I am white, middle class and educated. Instead of being open and talking to me about sex and allowing me to go…

I was 20 and a junior in college when I found out I was pregnant. I was with a man who was kind and understanding, but our relationship was fleeting.

I was a young, nineteen year old girl from a privileged family brought up in a suburb of New York. My parents took me to Santa Domingo to have my…

Forty years ago I had an abortion when I was 19. It was December 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade.