i found out when i was 21... i had stopped taking birth control because for so many days in a row i would forget to take my pill and didn't bother starting taking it again. i was busy with working, starting school soon and stressed about a lot of things.

i had two teen pregnancies with two different boys before abortion was legal. i had those babies - they remain the light of my life. both 'fathers' fled. at 22 i moved in with a man who seemed the right choice. i made it very clear that i would not have another child.

it wasn't hard for me to make my decision. if anything, i was more worried about what my husband would think. we're recently married, still very much in the newlywed stage.

i was 18 when i had my abortion. i had been dating the guy for nearly two years and for most of that time, i had been on the pill, but out of nowhere, my insurance stopped covering it and i had to see my obgyn to get a different prescription. 

whenever someone would bring up abortion, my canned response would always be, "i support a woman's right to choose, but i could never personally make that choice." of course, i never dreamed i'd be in a position where i was faced with that choice, so it was an easy thing to say.