i'm one of those rare women who have had an iud fail. it was may my junior year of college. my boyfriend and i had just relocated to california for summer jobs when i figured out the highly improbable: i was pregnant.

one summer when i was 16, i had an abortion. i was brought up in a conservative methodist home in texas. i had gotten pregnant by my boyfriend at the time, we were young curious hormonal teenagers.

i have type 2 cancer of the left ovary and have been doing ongoing proton and radiation treatments since july 2012. i had an abortion in november 2012. i was 33 and he was 39. i live in texas and he lives in louisiana. i am also the only person in my family who lives in texas.

i had an abortion february 17, 2012. i found out last week that the clinic i went to is being shut down. it's crazy to think about how much has changed in less than two years.

i was a dancer for eight years, from the time i was ten years old, and i was now eighteen. i was in a sexually active but abusive relationship, and was still getting regular heavy periods.

i bought the test and it ended up being positive. i wasn’t the most “regular” but somehow, that month i had known. when my boyfriend came home i showed him the test, while sitting on our bed.