unfortunately, my abortion was traumatic. i was in college and hid everything about the pregnancy\/abortion from my parents.
\ni took the train to see my boyfriend over 600 miles away \u2014 he’d made all the arrangements. i borrowed money from two trusted friends and paid them back later.
\ndespite my abortion being performed in a more liberal state, i had to sit through a “consultation” about the horrors of abortion. i had no pain killer until afterwards, when they gave me a tylenol with codeine.
\ni thought that was the end of that. six months later, my parents found out and threatened to disown me. my father said, “you’ve killed our first grandchild.” i ended up marrying my boyfriend out of guilt \u2014 as a way to atone for having the abortion.
\ni didn’t speak about my abortion for over ten years. finally a friend and i shared our stories. then i wrote about it in a book i published and all of a sudden other women were opening up about theirs, too.
\ni never regretted my decision to have an abortion. but i regret the amount of fear i felt because of other people’s reactions and how that fear caused me to make other decisions i wish i hadn’t made. sharing our stories with is the only way to understand and support each other.
\n18 years later i had an ectopic pregnancy that was classified as an abortion. without the procedure, i would have died of internal bleeding and left my three kids motherless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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