"I found out that I was pregnant by luck. I was at university, three weeks into my second year and I mentioned jokingly to my friend how I still hadn't had my period. 'Lol can you actually imagine' is what I said to her, laughing. She told me it was better just to check, even though we both knew that I wasn't going to be. I didn't even take the test that day, but completely forgot until two days later when I saw it fleetingly at the bottom of my shopping bag. So I took the te

"I have been with my boyfriend for 3 and a half years, just over. We'd been living together for approximately 2 months when I found out I was pregnant. However, we were in talks of splitting up when I found out and he'd gone away to stay with family. When I found out, I felt nothing but sad emotions. I was shocked it was actually happening to me. I didn't even believe I could conceive. I was sad it had happened in this situation and I was scared, so unbelievably scared. I ran

"It was exactly 9 months before my wedding date when I took a home pregnancy test and saw the two lines. I told my fiance right away. Neither one of us have a full time job, and we consider moving out of state once we're married. We already booked a venue, I bought my dress, booked a DJ, and photographer, booked hair and makeup artists. I had just gotten so much done that postponing the wedding just wasn't an option, I mean what are the odds that everything I booked would hav

"I would like to share my story because when I finally decided to have my abortion, I scoured the internet looking for stories similar to mine, but to no avail. I was 27. I already had 2 school aged children, but the thought of having a baby was very exciting. My situation was very unideal. I was married but my husband did not want children of his own (my children were from a previous marriage). So I strayed. I met the most amazing guy who fell in love with me and wanted chil

"I became pregnant when my two kids were 1 and 2. They were already a lot to handle and I couldn't imagine having a third one at the time. I lived in hellish state of despair and confusion, unsure what to do. After I had my abortion, I broke down in so many ways. The only way I can describe this experience is that my heart was pulled out of my body and a big part of me felt dead. I could barely breathe. I would cry constantly and out of nowhere. I still have debilitating depr

“I have had 2 abortions, and would like to share how very different these two abortions were. My first was at age 16. I lost my virginity to this guy when I was 14. We split up and then got back together roughly a year later. We had regular sex and never used contraception. I was stupid and so naive about the consequences. I still remember the evening I took the pregnancy test, we were in his dad’s flat and my friend came into the bathroom with me. I took the test and left it

“A few days before my 21st birthday I had my best friend coming down from Perth to spend the weekend celebrating my birthday. I remember it was the 29th of January, 2 days before she arrived. I had taken a pregnancy test because I hadn’t had a period in 30 days. I thought this was just because I was under stress but the lines that appeared showed otherwise. My heart was racing, and I didn’t really know what to feel. I was filled with many emotions. I was upset, overwhelmed, s

“I fell ‘in love’ while in high school. So blind & useless at everything that I fell pregnant when my life was falling apart. While kicking it with my ‘then’ boyfriend, I would always come home to a troubled family. I would always forget that I had a human being growing inside of me, I was too focused on what my problems were than my own child. My true feelings were that happiness all mothers feel when finding out but at the same time I had a heavy heart. I couldn’t tell my p

“I was 22 when I had my abortion. Yikes, even up to now I find it difficult to accept and say the word. I was madly in love with my ex at the time, but he never took our relationship seriously. He was my very first boyfriend and I gave him my body and soul. I really cannot remember how far long in the pregnancy I was. I remember missing my period and possibly over a months’ time I realized that it really wasn't coming at all so then I approached him and told him. He then said

“I had a medication abortion at 6 weeks and 2 days. I was on the birth control pill for 15 years. I’ve been with my current partner for 8 years and have never missed a pill. We had been on a holiday and on my 7-day pill free period and I never had a withdraw bleed. This had happened to me once before and it was fine. I took a test on December 1st and it was positive. I cried and cried. I have never been maternal or wanted children. We made the decision to have an abortion. As

“Lying in bed with an usual feeling of sickness, so much so that moving my head an inch brought on the urge to vomit. Thinking I may have had a virus, I sent a message to my sister. It was evening for me in the Southern Hemisphere and still morning for her in the UK. Her first reaction to how I was feeling.... are you pregnant? The thought hadn’t even crossed my mind. That day, I didn’t leave the house. Unable to move, wondering if it might be possible. The next morning, I we

“I had an abortion at the age of 18. I was pregnant and living at home with parents. My parents were ashamed of me considering my child to be was multi-racial. They paid for the abortion. The day of the procedure I tried to back out. My mother wouldn’t have it. She said she was not wasting her money and yelled at me to go. I had the worst post-abortion depression of my life. Was suicidal for several months and it finally lifted. I became pregnant again a year later, again an

“I don’t know how to start this, and I don’t even know if writing this will help make me feel better. All I know is regret. Just graduating from high school, in the summer I met this guy. That, I believe, I felt much love for. He made me happy and made me feel like we had something good going on. Everything with him felt good, I enjoyed every day with him. ‘Til this day, I don’t really know if he ever felt anything real for me. We had sex very quickly, he was leaving to the a

September 16th, 2017. That makes 7 months & 27 days since I decided to send god's gift to me back home. May 13th, 2018, Mother’s Day, marks my would-of-been due date. I haven't told this story to anyone, the only one who knows this is my fiance, but I think I'm finally ready. I found out I was pregnant on September 5th, my period was a day late and I started to feel sick days before, so my s/o and I thought I was best to take a test. We were really hoping the test was going t

“Growing up, having kids never really crossed my mind. I knew that one day sooner or later I was going to meet someone, fall in love, get married and of course have kids. I just didnt know that it would come way sooner than what I once pictured. My life was just perfect, me and my boyfriend had stable jobs, brand new cars, we were living it up. At age 22 I found out I was pregnant. Tears of happiness came out because I was going to have a baby with my soulmate. He was happy a

“I'm 18 years old, almost 19, in 2 months. My boyfriend, of 6 months now, already has a kid. I found out I was pregnant on the second week of February. I had gotten home from work and decided to take a test because I hadn't had my period in 2 months, but I assumed it was normal because my periods have always been irregular. I cried when the results were positive and was in shock too. The following day, I told my boyfriend. At first he was very supportive and said we would get

"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 don't even know where to start. I don't even want to type this, but I feel as if it's necessary. I've tried to be positive and look on ‘the bright side.’ But what if there isn't a bright side? I got an abortion and ever since, I've just felt empty. It's only been 5 days... and I want to die. I regret it so much. But there's no going back. I put the pill in my mouth and held it there I thought for a second.. Was I was doing the right thing? And my brain, My stupid, stupid b

"My story is pretty messed up and I’m sharing it that maybe someone else suffering kinda from the same situation can get help. I have to start out that I am gay but I had slept with a one guy in the past in 2007. 5 years later on April 3rd I ended up making a mistake and I slept with my best friends husband. I never liked to be alone with him and I always got a bad vibe from him and the one and only time I decided to hang out with him, we had sex. I didn’t think anything of

"Stigma only hurts people who are already hurting. I added to that stigma because I could never envisage myself making such a selfish choice. I wanted to stop people from normalising abortion. Another option seemed so easy to me, too easy, in fact. I couldn't make sense it - why would anyone choose such a thing? I relapsed one night and called over a drinking buddy. I cheated on my boyfriend and discovered I was pregnant. I wanted a baby so badly - but I couldn't let anyone k