To all the women, we can do it and don’t stop loving yourself
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I feel like I did the right thing considering my situation.
It was an easy procedure.
I didn’t want to be in the position I was in.
I have never doubted, regretted or been ashamed of my decision.
My reasons for ending the pregnancies were mine…..my body, my choices.
…it has been one of the hardest, or the hardest decision I have made in my life.
Every woman has the legal right to make her own medical decisions without the heavy hand of government getting between her, us, women – and our doctors.
I chose my own life.
…the one who healed our ancestral wounds and broke a negative pattern.
*Content Warning – Self-Harm & Abusive Relationship* I did something crazy, and thankfully, Planned Parenthood was there for me.
I thought I was Pro Choice before it happened to me. Now I am even MORE Pro-choice.
I want abortion to be normalized
I’ve had 2 abortions.
But being right there in the thick of that choice, I’m wrestling with emotions I can barely process.
Empowerment
Please give yourself love and compassion if you are going through an abortion for any reason.
I’m hoping we can normalize the conversation enough so we can feel brave.
Don’t suffer in silence. Tell your story and don’t hide in shame.
I am 75 years old. I was one of the lucky ones.
I want to share my story. I am not ashamed
…we should have the same freedom to pursue whatever life we envision for ourselves.
Those who choose are strong and deserve respect.
It was the right choice and the only choice.
Life is not always easy, if ever.
Doing what I did was hard and was a learning lesson but I am a strong woman with a strong mindset.
…I would tell them the truth and hold my head up high, because I am not alone, I do not regret it, and I should not have to feel ashamed or be stigmatized.
Still now, I don’t have feelings about it, and it’s been 14 years.
I had an abortion when I was 19, and then I lived happily ever after.
I don’t think I made the wrong decision, but I do wish I hadn’t had to make it.
I had learned that relief can exist with regret. The “best” choices for us can still leave scars. Nothing is all good or all bad.
I know it was right for everyone involved but it doesn’t change the fact that some days, I wish I had someone who I could love unconditionally.
It will be a choice if I decide to have a biological child of my own now. It won’t just be a thing that happens.
Recovery felt like coming back to life.
This is how I view my abortion.
I still say it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.
Me Too
Women need to talk about their experiences more and support each other.
My abortion was the best decision I ever made for myself.
It’s ok to mourn over your abortion.
I know I made the right choice for myself.
We Are All We Have to Lean On
I DID know better and so do You.
My abortion was a blessing.
I wish more women could have that experience and that feeling.
We can change the world.
Abortions should be accessible and medically monitored and OK.
A whole new urgency to fight
Privileged enough to be able to make a choice.
For the first time, I know that my abortion is not a reflection of me. For the first time, I reclaim my lost power.
You are not alone.
The shame we are still being coaxed into is a mirage
7 days
I got to choose when and with who I had children with. My body, my life, my choice.
…because I had an abortion.
I NEVER regret our decision. I had an abortion and I would do it again.
I owe my whole wonderful strange crazy life to making that decision and I am really fucking proud of myself.
Society always taught me that abortion was wrong but I have come to realize that mentality is so wrong.
Slowly I Began to Hear My Own Voice Again
I wish I could shout to each anti-choice person who ever lived about what happened to us
I’m proud of my decision.
It’s an answer.
I do not regret it.
No more what ifs. We weren’t meant to be parents right now.
It Wasn’t My Time
It Was My Choice
Have Risen/Abortion is Normal
Don’t Think About the What Ifs
11/25/2013
If you’re scared it will hurt, or what it’s like… Read this.
A story that i wouldnt think would be mine
Silence and shame
Most women who have abortions have children!
my abortion was not a big deal
25 Year Anniversary
1972–pregnant and off to college
Complex Circumstances
Compassion
I’m sick of being silent AKA being silent makes me sick!
This week is the week she was due.
Shout Your Abortion
Looking back, it really didn’t have to be such a bummer experience…
No Life for A Kid
Freedom
Gratifying Experience
Awareness Without Shame
now i have a good life
Second Trimester Abortions are about women who have to make a very painful choice
Natural
Nobody ever told me that it was okay, and that it was normal.
Turning Towards What We Want to Create
In Ontario Canada, In the 1980’s…
Nova Scotian who had to fly to NFLD
Accessible does not mean easy
Unbiased support services are needed
Never Again!
Living My Truth
“It was an interesting experience and not one I’m ashamed of”
Unable, but allied
not up for discussion
A hard process doesn’t make it a hard decision.
Having each other’s back
I had an abortion at 21 and 23 years old
Grateful
Women have the right to choose their destiny
I had an abortion at 17
I know that I did the right thing. I know this isn’t the time for me. When I am ready to be a mom,...
i had two abortions
Still Grieving
Tenderness
I Would Not Judge
No one should feel guilty
I felt overwhelmed with the tons love and support I had been getting from all angles since the day I found out.
Too Young
Yes. I Had An Abortion.
Double Bobo
I am less affected by my own experiences than I am worried about those of others.
One abortion, zero regrets
my Mother had no choice
I had no delusions about doing some prospective kid a magic life favor by dragging it into my dysfunction.
Totally worth the hoops WI made me jump!
One kid. Five abortions. No regrets.
Plan A
A choice that really doesn’t haunt me at all
It’s my choice
I understand you and I love you!
i’m not ashamed and i’m not sorry
I had an abortion
I was depressed to the point of suicide
forever grateful
My Abortion, My Son
And then it was done.
a talk with mom
Right time; right place
Takes one to know one
I Just Had an Abortion and I am So Lucky
I was living at home, working 2 jobs, and helping my mom take care of everyone else
while my peers were thinking about prom, I was secretly navigating a healthcare system
We should start calling abortions “gratitudes,” because that is all I’m feeling.
a better teacher
37 years later, I’m still with the same partner, and we have three grown kids (all abortion rights activists)
For me, a non-issue
My Abortion Story
Plain and Simple
The Father that Saved Me
We live in a society that chastises women for ending pregnancies but then does not support mothers at all
Hilarious how those protesting abortion are so often old men, who have never and will never be affected by the issue.
I felt relief. I felt cared for.
Stage 4 cancer and a failed IUD
Salvation.
It might have happened to you. It’s okay.
Third time’s the charm.
I didn't know that life was going to be this hard, but I did know that I absolutely could not handle having a third...
If you’re having sex on the floor of a handicap bathroom on an amtrak train, maybe you aren’t ready to be a mother.
All I wanted was to finish high school and get a college degree. And most importantly, I didn’t want to have a child from my rapist.
Now that I am a mother I can say with conviction that having an abortion at age 18 was the best decision I ever made.
I won’t go so far as to say I felt happy or that it wasn’t still something I chose to hide from most people, but I felt like I had my life back.
The only guilt I felt was about not feeling guilty that I had done it. That soon passed when I realized that it didn’t matter what anyone else thought.
I took Plan B 18 hours after unprotected sex and was pushed into that tiny statistic of women who get pregnant anyway; Plan B...
Financial issues, a volatile relationship and managing a popular bar while pregnant was just not a recipe for my future.
I've never had an abortion, but ever since I knew what one was, I told anyone who would listen that I would get one...
Friends have become pregnant and made the same decision I did. When they tell me they’re considering an abortion, I share my story.
I haven’t once regretted my decision; I’ve never felt so certain about a choice in my life.
Later I felt guilty for not feeling guilty about it – and kinda held onto that for a while.
For getting to start over because I wanted to. For the sparkling sense of newness floating around me now.