i was 18 and had been with my boyfriend for a year. he and i had the "what if" conversation and i said in no uncertain terms that if the birth control i always used failed that i would have an abortion while he, on the other hand, insisted that he would marry me.

i had an abortion when i was 28. back in 1988 i had 2 choices. abortion and keep my job and home, or homeless and a parent playing the welfare breeding game.

i am 77 years old. i was a virgin until i was 21 and didn't sleep around. when i was 22 i was date raped, got pregnant, and couldn't find a safe way to have an abortion.

it was my second year in college when i found out i was pregnant. i did not plan to have kids at all, much less at that time in my life.

i was a 19 year old thousands of miles from family and desperate to find connections. this led me to make many bad decisions.

i had been in a stable relationship for over a year when, despite using birth control, i got pregnant. i had just started college that year and he hadn't started yet.