I saw an anti-abortion booth at a traveling fair when I was 10. I held onto the little card they gave out of a fetus cartoon with the bubble, " I have rights too!!!" for at least 10 years. It got all dirty and dog-eared, but I kept it. (I threw it out after my abortion.) I was a good Protestant girl from a broken, poor, and dysfunctional family... I ended up 18 in the South with an alcoholic...

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Age: 45
Location: USA
Date: February 2, 2012

Growing up as a teen, I remember being very depressed and angry. I became promiscuous at a very young age, looking for someone to love me. At the age of 19, I became pregnant. I knew my life was about to change drastically, but I didn't expect what came next. I was strongly encouraged to abort. This scared me. Abortion was far from my mind. Every part of me knew abortion was wrong and every part...

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Date: January 27, 2012

I am a 29 year old woman. I have 8 children with my partner, the youngest is 7 months. My partner has depression, and I didn't think life could get any harder until 3 days ago. I had an abortion. My partner and I agreed we couldn't cope with another child, although I didn't want the abortion. He thought it was the right thing to do. I went in hospital on Thursday and from the time I got on the...

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Age: 29
Location: UK
Date: January 22, 2012

In October of last year, I found out that I had become pregnant with my first child. The father and I were/are in a relationship and discussed heavily the options I had as the mother. Naturally every option crosses your mind at least once. Before I became pregnant and put in that situation I never would have thought I would consider an abortion. A couple weeks passed since I got a positive...

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Age: 19
Location: Elkhart, IN
Date: January 21, 2012

At the hands of my mother, I was forced to abort my child at 17 years old. I was never given the option to choose for myself if becoming a mother was right for me. The subsequent results were promiscuity followed by additional abortions, guilt, self hatred, etc. I am a mother now with wonderful children. It has not been easy, but I am so relieved to have had them. Through Christ, I was able to...

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Age: 43
Location: New York
Date: January 20, 2012

I have had several abortions. My first was in 2001. Instant regret. I was all alone, in the military and all my friends had turned against me. Including my parents. For my second abortion, my mom took me and paid for it. Instant regret. I then abused drugs and alcohol for many years. God graciously saw fit for me to become pregnant again. I had my daughter. She is now six and simply amazing. Last...

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Age: 34
Location: Dallas, TX
Date: January 11, 2012

As I'm writing this, with tears coming down my face, I am also helping myself. I have had a total of 5 pregnancies. I have one 8 year old, 3 abortions, and just found out I am pregnant. The first abortion I had when I was 18, 5 months after my first child was born. There was no way my boyfriend at the time and I could deal with 2 infants. We were young and struggling. I didn't know the impact of...

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Age: 26
Location: Maryland/DC
Date: January 7, 2012

Let me start off by saying that there hasn't been one day that has passed that I haven't thought of the little angel I once had inside me. It was November 2009 when I met my ex-boyfriend (lets call him Justin), and we were inseparable.... I had just turned 20 in October, so I was fairly young with 2 years left of college. Justin (age 23) and I started officially dating in February 2010. Usually I...

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Age: 22
Location: Oregon
Date: January 6, 2012

I was a senior in high school, 17 years old. Everything was perfect. I had an amazing boyfriend, great family, and the best friends in the world until I made a mistake. I was wasted and had [sex]. My boyfriend dumped me since it wasn't with him. My family hated me since I was a disgrace to my family, and only a few of my friends supported me. After a while, I went to the doctor because of really...

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Location: New York
Date: January 3, 2012

I am a male who's ex fiancé just ended our relationship. We both decided to have an abortion about 2.5 years ago. Years have past, but I still think and regret our decision every day. It was the biggest mistake of our lives. The procedure was free and very easy to obtain. Two pills at different times of the day and it was done. I think and hate myself every day for this. I would have a baby boy...

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Age: 29
Location: California
Date: December 21, 2011

In November of 2010, while I was a freshman in college, I received the news that I was 8 weeks pregnant. I thought abortion was the best thing because there was no way I could successfully raise a child while being over 300 miles from home and in college. I gave myself so many excuses and reasons as to why I was doing the right thing, but just like the story before me, I was pro-choice before my...

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Age: 20
Location: Maryland
Date: December 19, 2011

I do not have much to say. I would just like anyone who is considering abortion for whatever reason, to reconsider. I recently had an abortion on October 10 and it was the worst mistake of my life. While I will be able to continue school and not have the responsibility of being a parent, the daily emotional turmoil I suffer was not worth it. Before your procedure, you make excuses, rationalize,...

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Age: 17
Location: Charlotte, NC
Date: December 14, 2011

I was 19. Young and scared. I was in an emotionally abusive relationship, and although I was raised to know that abortion was "wrong", I never truly understood why. When I was a senior in high school, I remember writing a short essay about abortion being a "diabolical" act, that no one should EVER take part in. Judgmental? Yep. Until, I became the statistic. When I found out I was pregnant, I...

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Age: 31
Location: USA
Date: December 9, 2011

I am 22 years old – a mother of a 5-year-old and a 1-year-old. Last Sunday (11/27/11), I found out that I was pregnant. I made the biggest mistake of my life (on 12/1/11). I had an abortion. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to take care of my baby like I want to. I feel horrible now. It's only been 3 days, but I can't get the fact that I killed my baby out of my head. I was awake for the...

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Age: 22
Location: Gas City, IN
Date: December 4, 2011

As a young woman I had an abortion. I was 21. I woke up crying after the procedure, and shortly thereafter became so ill, I thought I was going to die. It did make me seek the Lord. As a child, I had accepted the Lord in my life, [but] was not actively serving Him. As I sought the Lord, he sent me some wonderful (real) Christians who didn't judge me. They nurtured me, counseled me and my little...

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Location: Kentucky
Date: November 30, 2011

I aborted my baby at 6 weeks pregnant when I was 19 years old. I came from a family that would have humiliated and shamed me for being pregnant, would have used it as an excuse to exercise abusive power over me, in addition to the fact that I had a horrible excuse of a “boyfriend” who was already onto the next one when I found out I was pregnant with his child. I was a college student, and afraid...

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Age: 36
Location: Detroit, MI
Date: November 30, 2011

The details of my abortion are not what I want to discuss here. If you are reading this, it is fairly probable that you have had or are considering an abortion. I am sure you have read other stories with details of feeling scared, lost, without choice and a plethora of other emotions, reasons and rationales, and like myself there are probably parts of some or all of those stories that you can...

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Age: 30
Location: Australia
Date: November 24, 2011

We were engaged and very happy. He got a dream job offer, less pay but greater future promise and made it clear that we should move back to our home town. I did not want to leave my job or my friends but I did for him. It was tough living just on his salary as I struggled to find work. Then we found out I was pregnant. He was happy and told everyone. I was skeptical. I didn't know if I was very...

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Age: 24
Location: South Africa
Date: November 11, 2011

I have had 3 abortions. My life since these abortions has been a train wreck: 3 marriages, drugs, alcohol, depression, guilt, shame. I never knew why I was such a mess. My first one was at 20. I had no idea at that time I was killing a child. I cried after the first one, and the second. After the third one, I was very ill. I had an infection the very next morning. I was sick for about a month. As...

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Age: 53
Location: Cheney, WA
Date: November 11, 2011

I had an abortion in June of this year, and every day I live with more and more regret as the time nears for my projected due date. I would've been eight months if I wasn't a coward. The father of the baby was supportive and wanted the baby, as did I. Rewind to a few months before I got pregnant; I was laid-off and had no money to support this child. I made over five appointments and cancelled...

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Age: 29
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: November 9, 2011