"It has been one year and nine months since I had the surgical procedure on Friday, October 21 2016. It stills feel unreal. At the time, I was 15 years old. I have been raised in a traditional Catholic household to a very traditional Republican family. Given this, I was afraid to ask my mom if I could start the pill because then she would know I was having sex. I have been dating my boyfriend for the past 2 1/2 years, and I can honestly say I could not have gotten through thi

"I’m 23 years old and I had the termination 6 months ago and am still not over it. I thought it would make everything easier but it’s just gotten harder. Me and my boyfriend had only been together a few months before I found out I was pregnant in December. I wanted it a lot more than my partner and my family, I definitely put everyone else’s decision before mine, which has made me massively regret it. I feel guilty every day and I feel like something is missing. I had a surgi

"I was 16 just turning 17 at the time I became pregnant. It never hit me that something like this could happen to me. I had a year left of high school. So much was happening. My boyfriend at the time was in a military camp DJJ program. I didn’t find out I was pregnant until about 8 weeks. I was completely scared and thrown off. I found out it was really my ex boyfriends baby. This made me really come to the conclusion I didn’t want this. I was young, I had aspirations to go t

"I'm 19 years old, turning 20 in a few months. Children have never been something that I've wanted in my future, but after meeting my boyfriend we have constantly talked about our family together. Although we planned on this happening later, we just recently found out I was pregnant. Although I had known for some time, I delayed taking a test due to being afraid of the result. My mom was a young mother and has ingrained the idea of "waiting to have children" in me since birth

"I am a 26-year-old student who was not ready to be a mother. Last week on June 21st I found out I was pregnant. I didn’t really have any symptoms besides missing my period and my breasts were a little sore. I took an at home pregnancy test and was completely in shock. I immediately called my boyfriend to tell him. He came home and we talked about all our options. We came to the decision to have an abortion. We knew it was the absolute best decision at that time! The next day

“I felt pregnant at 21 years old and I had no idea what to do. I wasn't on any birth control prior to this happening, but I was sure that I would never become pregnant any time soon if I did what I normally would do. This all changed June 2016. I had always had normal menstrual cycles, so I would know if something went wrong and one day it did. I was 10 days late on my period, and instead I only got implantation bleeding. I was in denial still. It took me another week to fina

“I am 26 years old and I am pregnant. I have been with my partner for 3 years and I have decided to terminate this pregnancy. I have always wanted children and will have children one day. I think what made me decide to choose this option was reevaluating my beliefs and life goals. I have been having too much fun these past few years, and avoiding life’s responsibilities. When I found out, my partner was so excited, making me think this is possible, and everything is possible.

“In March 2018 I had my contraceptive implant removed. I had been bleeding for 9 months non-stop and I couldn’t put up with it anymore. Myself and my OH decided to start using condoms as a method of contraception instead. A week after having my implant removed I started to bleed. I began to track my periods on an app so when my next period in April was late I began to worry. I was told not to stress myself out because my periods may take a long time to get back to normal afte

“I was a 20-year-old sophomore at a top University. Like any young and naive college girl I fell for a bad boy. We clicked like no other person I’d been with. He made me feel remarkable and everything around us was irrelevant. He then went to jail and two weeks later after being 10 days late and in denial I found out I was pregnant. I was beyond scared and I was so disappointed in myself. I didn’t want to drop out of school and the life I wanted to provide for my child I coul

“This is dedicated to all of the women who have ever felt alone after choosing to have an abortion. You are not alone, you are loved, you are worthy, and you are still a mother, don’t let anyone take that from you. This is my experience, and it is not meant to change the minds of anyone who already has a belief about how they feel about abortion, but more so to give my account on an experience that changed my life forever. I’m a mother by my own right, a daughter, a sister, a

“Went in for an abortion today in Toronto, Ontario. Got into the clinic at 8:15AM, had to wait until about 10AM to be admitted into the process. Honestly, this was the worst part of my experience. The waiting was what made my anxiety worsen, but I respect the clinic I went to and their process. Overall I was there for 4 hours, but the process took about 2 hours. In the week leading up to my appointment, I read a lot of stories online from women across the globe and none of th

“At the moment I am twenty-two years old. I have decided to speak up about a subject that has been tearing me apart for a while. Two weeks, it has been two weeks since I had an abortion. I was almost three months at the moment. But I will guide you through those 3 months starting from the moment I found out. It had been so many days I felt sick in the mornings, all I craved was sweets and I am usually more of a salty person. Chips, popcorn those sort of things. I never put tw

"I was 10 weeks pregnant. The decision wasn't easy. Today, I find hope and comfort for any woman who chooses to terminate a pregnancy. Here's my story. I'm 24 years old. My boyfriend and I got pregnant the day my grandma had passed. It was unplanned, but we were so excited. I went to my first ultrasound, and everything was great. Then, around Christmas time.... I started to have anxiety. My baby was due in August and I am supposed to start Nursing School in August. I'm a 4.0

"I found out I was pregnant January 4th, 2018. I’m a 26 year old and all I could mutter in my work bathroom was ‘no no no no no’. Before I even went to the doctor I scheduled the abortion. I’ve always been aware of abortion and have done research in the past out of curiosity, but of course I never thought I’d have to make the decision. I’m past my teenage years, I’m capable of raising a child and if I’m honest I want nothing more than a child...yet there’s always a but. I was

“I was 21, about to graduate and had been with my boyfriend two years. Our relationship wasn’t at its best point we were struggling. I was in my last year of uni and we just moved in together. We got lost & then I found out I was pregnant. It wasn’t an accident and it wasn’t planned I was on the pill and the pill had failed. We discussed it wasn’t right. How can we bring a helpless & innocent child into our mess? How can we salvage our relationship when we have a baby on the

"I'd like to share my story in hopes that it will help another mother who has lost her baby. In a nutshell, I got pregnant a few months ago with a man I had been on and off with for a year. In the beginning, I had told him that I wanted to get pregnant. At first, he didn't respond well. Eventually, we began trying. He was physically and emotionally abusive towards the end of our relationship and I had left for good, or so I thought. I had my period cramps around the usual tim

"I had met a guy through a good friend 10 years ago. I was 17, a senior in high school. He approached me, but I quickly shot him down. I thought nothing of it. A few years later we were friends on social media. I found myself crushing but never acted on it. Little did I know his feelings for me hadn't changed. March, 2017 he asked me out on a date. I agreed. He brought me a dozen roses that day, my favorite color, pink. They were beautiful. The weeks following he continued wi

“It was my junior year of college. I had just completed all of my pre-requisites for the Nursing program and received my acceptance letter to start clinicals for the Fall of 2018. I was in a 4 year relationship with my high school sweetheart that I had intentions to marry, I had a wonderful job on campus and I would be the first in my family to ever go to college. Never in a million years did I think that a simple ‘cold’ would mean that I was pregnant. I was poor, living on a

"I was 22 years old and 2 months away from my college graduation when I found out I was pregnant. I knew in the back of my head that I was more than likely pregnant far before I missed my period but hoped with all of my heart I was wrong. I remember sitting in class one evening looking at my calendar with all of the dates swirling in my head. As I started counting it hit me like a ton of bricks....'I am pregnant!' Later that week I worked up the courage to go buy a pregnancy

“From a young age, I have always wanted children, don't get me wrong there is no question about that, however falling pregnant at 18, whilst on birth control, really was not the plan. I am incredibly lucky in that my boyfriend, no matter what my decision, would not of left me. However it's obvious that we just weren't and aren't ready to start a family yet, as heart breaking as it was. I found out I was pregnant on June 4th and that's a date I will never forget. I have never