when i needed to decide whether to carry my third pregnancy full-term or have an abortion, i already had two sons and would have loved to try for a daughter. however a low back injury make it too dangerous to go full term. so, i decided on an abortion and had my fallopian tubes tied off at the same time.

it was something i needed to do at the time i did it.

the first 16 years of my life were something out of a lifetime channel movie; alcoholic, misogynist, abusive stepfather; enabling and psychologically damaged mother; and a spoiled, bratty, but obedient younger sister.

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?