i was 18 years old. i had just graduated high school. it was my summer vacation before college. i can distinctly remember when i figured out i was pregnant.

i was thirteen years old, and i lost my virginity to a 23-year-old man i felt like i knew well. a friend of the family.

i've always been extremely careful since i became sexually active because i don't want to have the difficult decision of having an abortion.

i was only 19 when i was manipulated into placing my first child for adoption. i faced being homeless or staying with my boyfriend, an older man who regularly beat and raped me.

i had an abortion when i was 24. at the time, i was a single mother raising a 6-year old son. we had recently relocated to a large city after i had accepted a new job.

i have had two abortions - one at age 23 and another at age 24. i had just graduated college with a bachelor's degree, and my boyfriend and i had just gotten together.