i've always been pretty proud of my relationship with my body. i listen to it, i love it, i touch it, i know it. at least until my nurse told me that i was pregnant.

one in three american women will have an abortion in her lifetime. i am one of them. at 23 years old i found myself faced with an unintended pregnancy. i was shocked.

i got pregnant the first time i had sex. i know because that's the only time we didn't use birth control. i didn't even think that was possible--the very first time?

i was 18 years old, and had only been in the military for less than a year. i had lost my virginity less than a year before all this. a few months before finding out i was pregnant (in spite of using condoms) i found out my mom had non-hodgkins lymphoma.

i have had an abortion. i am grateful that i was able to discuss the situation with my family and to be left to make the best decision for myself.

i was 25 and in a committed relationship. the condom broke on saturday night. i don't know if you could get plan b over the counter in 2001 but if you could i didn't know about it, so i waited until planned parenthood opened on monday.