i was twenty one years old. it was 1973. i was engaged to be married the summer after i graduated. i was attending a baptist university, getting ready to do my student teaching.

the only member of my family to graduate from college. had administrators of this school found out about my pregnancy i would have been sent home. i had seen it happen before. my fiance told me he would get the money if i wanted to have an abortion or we would get married and have the baby. he would support me in whatever i chose. i knew that if i was sent home i would not graduate. all i could think about was what a disappointment i would be to my parents, who had sacrificed so much for me to go to college. i chose to have an abortion. the following june i married. we waited ten years to have children. i have a son and a daughter. i still think about my baby that i aborted, but i know that i made the right choice for me at that time. all women deserve the right to choose for themselves what is best for them.