by anonymous I was barely 18, living with a nice-enough but totally unsuitable man, earning minimum wage and he not much more. Also, I was more or less all messed up in the head from the years of vicious abuse I endured when I still lived with my family—I had escaped at 15 but the [...]

by campbell Abortion saved my life. I’m not an apologist, nor do I feel comfortable telling lies about it. Not every moment of my life following my abortion has been a romp through the roses, and I don’t wake up every day feeling like a good person. I live with it every day, because I [...]

by Michelle (Minnesota) I was young, misguided and I just wanted to be loved. Although I used contraception with my first boyfriend (in college) I did get pregnant. I had an abortion when I was 20. I went on to finish college with a double major, get married, have two kids (maybe another one in [...]

by Jodi (Maryland) I was in a long-term relationship that had become long-distance when my then-boyfriend transferred to a different university several states away.  He’d lived all his life in one place and one state and wanted to experience something different, and also test his aspiration to become an engineer.   We continued to see [...]

by SG, New York I became pregnant while in a monogamous relationship and on birth control because of an eye infection. Sounds bizarre, but I’d accidentally slept in my contact lenses a few times, and developed a nasty bacterial infection as a result. When I received antibiotics from my eye doctor to treat it, he [...]