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. However a low back injury make it too dangerous to go full term. So, I decided on an abortion and had my fallopian tubes tied off at the same time.

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 obedient younger sister.

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 time?

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 few months before finding out I was pregnant (in spite of using condoms) I found out my mom had non-hodgkins lymphoma.

I became pregnant while using an IUD birth control after a molar pregnancy. Becoming pregnant so soon was not advised because of the molar pregnancy but we (my husband and I) didn't want to get an abortion since we had already experienced the devastation of pregnancy loss.

I had an abortion when I was 28. Back in 1988 I had 2 choices. Abortion and keep my job and home, or homeless and a parent playing the welfare breeding game.