I found out I was pregnant right before my 17th birthday...
content warning: mention of rape "I found out I was pregnant right before my 17th birthday, my junior year of high school. It shouldn’t have come by surprise but it did. My boyfriend was a man, almost 20 years old. I think I was looking for someone to love me, to pay attention to me, to be seen. When I told my Mom she said 'you are having an abortion.' I didn’t fight her. We had just found out that my grandfather was sick around the same time so my Mom was there with him. I d