i tried a few times in my early twenties to request a tubal ligation, and doctors told me again and again that i was too young to decide that i didn't want to have children. "think of your future husband!" they said.

i have had two abortions, both traumatic, both for very different reasons.

i feel the urgent need to share my story considering what the republican party is trying to do to a woman's right to choose what happens to her body.

i am having an abortion, my first, in 6 days. i am married, we both have good jobs, we don't currently have children, we own our own home and we are healthy. this pregnancy made it through two forms of birth control.

i wasn’t being irresponsible. i was on the pill. but still, i found myself staring in disbelief at two positive pregnancy tests as i sat on the bathroom floor in my rented apartment which i shared with two other roommates. it was my first week at my first job out of school and i couldn’t believe this was happening.

years ago, i had what is medically called a "missed abortion": when the fetus dies but the woman carrying it doesn't miscarry.