it was about 1972 and i was at a party and drinking gin and seven up.

i was 19 and having casual sex with a boy that i thought i loved.

my abortion story (and why i vote pro-choice)
questions i get asked at doctors’ offices:

i had an abortion when i was 20 years old. i had just struggled to get out of an emotionally abusive and very isolating relationship when i discovered that i was pregnant.

my children do not know i chose them over the pregnancy, but that is exactly what i did. i was 36, it was january 2013 when i knew i was pregnant. bc failure.

he was my first serious boyfriend and neither of us knew anything about birth control or pregnancy prevention thanks to the lack of accurate sex ed from our religious high school.