when i was in college, i was in a serious relationship and sexually active with my now-husband, then-boyfriend.

we had just gotten married in june when in september i found out i was pregnant.

i’m 24 i found i was pregnant about a week after my boyfriend left for army deployment 7000 miles away and wouldn’t be home for about 10 months.

my reluctance to share my abortion story is not due to shame or trauma, but anger at the fact that people feel the need to judge each woman’s story.

i always had this gut feeling that i couldn't have children. i always wanted them...badly. somehow though i knew that i was never to have that for my own.

nobody ever thinks it’ll happen to them.. before knowing i would experience it first hand myself i had always been pro choice and always a self advocater that women have rights and their own free will with their body.