i was raped at the age of 11. not only was my childhood taken from me, i feel as if my whole life has been taken from me. i am 20 as of now, and yes, i conceived from that nightmare, at a very very young age.

my sister had tried to warn our mother of this man (who was living with us at the time), but she didn’t believe us soon enough. i was almost four months along when it was decided that i was going to have an abortion. that is not the way i wanted it.i wanted to continue with the pregnancy, but chose not to. i regret not having the baby…but if i could go back and do it over again, i would have reached out for help from a teacher or someone…maybe things would have ended up differently. maybe i could have gotten out of the drug house that i was stuck at, but that’s the thing…there’s no way to know what might have been. i know i could never abort again, but i still want to end the stigma of women being a bad person cuz they chose abortion…because that’s not true at all. shame on anyone for judging someone that is in a situation that they are not in/never will be in themselves.