abortion. it’s not something i ever really thought of.

my first sexual partner was my future husband who was a classmate in medical school in 1963.

i met the love of my life in 2015. we were happily married in september of 2016 and by july of the next year we decided it was time to start expanding our family of two and three fur babies to include a human baby. surprise! i peed on a stick in september and bam!, we got what we were hoping for, a big positive result.

i transferred universities between my freshman and sophomore years, and within the first four months, i had been raped twice.

abortion is so much more complicated than we realize. i had an abortion in 1979 when i was 19. i struggled terribly with the decision but ultimately felt that i had no choice.

my first abortion was when i was 19.