in early 2010 i woke up in bed at my boyfriend’s house with a pain in my abdomen. the pain persisted and became unbearable over the course of an hour and he decided to take me to the hospital.<\/p>\n
in the emergency room the doctors ran every test under the sun on me and came back into my hospital room within an hour of me being there to tell me i was pregnant.<\/p>\n
i was 22 years old and had spent the last 10 years of my life on birth control. i had worked for pro choice organizations and studied human sexuality in college. i thought i was educated and prepared enough to avoid an unplanned pregnancy. and yet here i was, 22 years old, dating a man who was struggling with extensive emotional and mental 世界杯赛程2022赛程表中国 in addition to a heroin addiction, while i too was battling my own substance abuse 世界杯赛程2022赛程表中国 and my birth control had failed.<\/p>\n
i didn’t even think twice. i was having an abortion. i felt a twinge of embarrassment and regret about getting into the situation that i was in, but i was confident in my decision and so was he. at the time i, conveniently, worked at an abortion clinic. i called my boss after leaving the hospital and told her that i “might need to be a patient.”<\/p>\n
the week following my trip to the er i went to my gyn and had a sonogram. i was 4 weeks along. when i went to work the following week i worked a full day at the clinic and at the end of the day i sat in the chair across from where i normally sat and counseled women every day about the choice they were making and was given the mifepristone pill. because i was earlier than 7 weeks into my pregnancy i had the option of a medical abortion.<\/p>\n
the next day i had to complete part two of my abortion at home, by taking the misoprostol pills vaginally. it was 4\/20. my boyfriend and i sat on the couch at my house and watched tom and huck while i waited for the pills that would cause me to expel my pregnancy to take effect. a couple hours later we followed through on our plans to meet a few friends at sugarloaf mountain and “celebrate” 4\/20 with them. i will never forget hanging back from the group with my best friend kelly hunt and whispering to her “guess what i’m doing right now.”<\/p>\n
6 months after i had my abortion my boyfriend took his own life in an accidental overdose. his funeral was 5 days before my due date.<\/p>\n
i have no regrets. \u202a#1in3speaks\u202c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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