I am a Christian and I had an abortion. I want fellow Christians to know that having an abortion(s) won’t separate you from the love of God. My abortion was a blessing. My abortion strengthened my faith and made clearer God’s plans for my life.

I have been told that God can punish me for my abortions, but I know that God’s love doesn’t work that way. It was thanks to the 2 abortions that I realized I needed to leave and it was God who gave me all of the strength to leave that relationship as well as overcome all my challenges.”

I think about how my life has a night shift nurse would be vastly different if I had not had my abortions. I would be struggling to find child care at night and really would not be able to be the nurse that I am today.

artifacts
i think i got pregnant on this bedspread. a queen sheet, taken from the curb outside an
anthropologie in soho.
it covered a mattress found on craigslist.

In 2011, I proudly told my abortion story for the first time publicly via Advocates for Youth’s 1 in 3 story-telling project because I was inspired by the project to show so many faces and reasons behind abortion.