I was 18 and a boy years older than me became a close friend of mine. I knew his best friend and his brother. We had a FWB things for a moment but he took things too far without my consent and I became pregnant. I never told him and I didn’t know until ten years later that it was rape, that my friend had raped me. I kept shutting it out and shaming myself because I knew no one would believe me. I hated myself. I hated my body. I was even on birth control. I began to hurt myself and ending up giving myself an abortion. I do not regret that abortion, I do regret that I didn’t do it safely. This is why abortion should be kept legal, so people don’t have to harm themselves just to feel free.
All my love,
M
