Nadine (USA) #089
“My heart had been filled with this awful emptyness.”
Jasmine (New Zealand) #088
“Why did I do it?”
Lee (USA) #087
“It took me five years... just to say that... he had raped me!”
Cari S (USA) #086
“My friend's dad began molesting her, and me, when we were 12.”
Carolyn N (New Zealand) #085
“He made me have an abortion because he was thinking of his last partner.”
Katie (New Zealand) #084
“My family decided for me.”
Kelli (USA) #083
“He then told me I had to have an abortion.”
Rona (USA) #082
“He was full grown. I know, because... there was an ultrasound machine in the room.”
Laura (USA) #081
“Mom took me to Planned Parenthood and paid for the abortion.”
Krystal (USA) #080
“It first hit me about 3 months later, but I buried it. I guess it was about a year and a half later when I started to lose it.”
Laura (New Zealand) #079
“To me, it was a rushed decision, and a pressured decision.”
Angela (New Zealand) #078
“I cry most days...”
Sapphire (USA) #077
“I was 20 weeks pregnant (which is 5 months).”
Selena (USA) #076
“And here I sit, two weeks later, already beginning to feel the guilt.”
Amy S (USA) #075
“Most nights, I cry myself to sleep.”
Janelle (USA) #074
“I can't tell anyone.”
Meredith (United Kingdom) #073
“I had the tablets, and had to sit there all day in the hospital waiting for it to pass.”
Brenda (USA) #072
“I can't watch commercials with babies, or even look at pregnant women.”
Stacey Cooper (New Zealand) #071
“after a lot of research on the internet, [I learned] my condition could have been closely monitored. And to top it off, they tied my tubes while I was in there.”
Nickie (USA) #070
“I placed my hand on my stomach, and said to my baby, ‘I'm sorry.’”
Raven (Australia) #069
“I feel that, for both my abortions, the counselling was inadequate, and 5 minutes at the most.”
Dale (Australia) #068
“He physically threatened me — holding his fist up in the air, and telling me how he liked to smash people in the face.”
Lesley (United Kingdom) #067
“I saw an ad on the tube that… gave me the impression you got neutral advice.”
Amanda Kellaway (Australia) #066
“I sat up and said, ‘No, I don't want this.’ The doctor used force to jab the needle in.”
Carin Allen (USA) #065
“I am a heart patient.”
Susan Berger (USA) #064
“He then said I had to get an abortion, that there was no way we were ready to have a baby.”
Cate (New Zealand) #063
“My husband, a doctor, coerced me into aborting our 5th baby.”
Jeannie (Canada) #062
“[My mother said]… Dr. C. came out of the operating room and told me that the baby wasn't really dead and asked Dad and I what we wanted him to do. We told him to abort it.”
Sophia (USA) #061
“My doctor had told me that taking the Pill a few hours difference each day wouldn't make a difference… Well, she was wrong…”
Jayne (New Zealand) #060
“My boyfriend, who I am with today, said to me that he didn't want to have another baby, to get rid of it right away.”
Gisela (USA) #059
“I knew he still wanted me to have the abortion, but I didn't know how bad until he started harassing me, daily, with phone calls and threats.”
Rebecca (USA) #058
“The boyfriend… now became more unstable and abusive, threatening to kill the baby and me if I had it.”
Leena (USA) #057
“But suddenly, he put down the line. I had to abort the baby.”
Louise (USA) #056
“The father has put the whole thing out of his mind — we don't talk about it.”
Allison (USA) #055
“When my mom found out she said I should have an abortion, because the guy would be in my life for the rest of my life.”
Kay (USA) #054
“Getting pregnant triggered old fears I had related to my body and my sexuality. I was molested when I was younger.”
Fiona (USA) #053
“He told me that I would have to have an abortion… that it wasn't that big of a deal because his last girlfriend had one.”
Genna (USA) #052
“The clinic made me sick. I just wanted to yell and scream. I hated everyone there, and my boyfriend.”
Kelsey T (Australia) #051
“He didn't want to know about it, and just told me he is too young, and to get rid of it.”
Caroline (USA) #050
“I am in my thirties, and have had two abortions.”
Nicole (USA) #049
“I had the father calling me every day, telling me that I couldn't go through with it. I would ruin his life.”
Lacy (USA) #048
“I am 14 years old.”
Kim (Australia) #047
“I had a one night stand with a man I met at a night club. It was fun, but it was not worth the years of hell I would go through.”
Patty (Canada) #046
“I was in the shower, and I felt somthing slip down my leg.”
Jasmine (USA) #045
“I was twenty five weeks pregnant when my parents and the baby's father forced me into an unwanted abortion.”
Emily J (Canada) #044
“Abortion nearly killed me.
”
Connie (USA) #043
“The father didn't want it, and I felt lost.”
Jamie (USA) #042
“Hello, this is my story, written from a 3rd person point of view.”
Jessie (USA) #041
“I was diagnosed with manic-depression, and had been taking psychiatric medications when I found out I was pregant."
Pam (USA) #040
“Why couldn't [Mom] just have talked with me about all this? Maybe we could have prevented this mess."
Bryanna (USA) #039
“The doctor yelled at me because I was scaring the other patients."
Karen (Jamaica) #038
“I saw a piece of bone... there was flesh on it."
Marie (Philippines) #037
“At first, I felt that I did the right thing, but as time goes on..."
Samantha (USA) #036
“About one week later, she told me I had a doctor's appointment. I went not suspecting a thing”
Sallysusie (USA) #035
“I was raped”
Ally (New Zealand) #034
“Not long after that, I became very withdrawn and didn't even want to spend time with my daugter”
Sarah (New Zealand) #033
“It's been 3 months, and I still wake up with nightmares and wake up crying”
Stacey (USA) #032
“I did not realize that it would effect me the way it did. I cried everyday.”
Julieann (United Kingdom) #031
“My husband threatened to leave me if I kept it”
Amy L (Ohio, USA) #030
“I started screaming at the top of my lungs and kicking my legs. The doctor grabbed ahold of my legs and the nurse put her hand over my mouth and pressed my head sideways into the bed”
Michelle C (Glendale, AZ, USA) #029
“He said that if I had an abortion that we had a future... but, if I kept the baby we didn't have a future”
Tina M (Australia) #028
“I was fine until about the 2nd day after the abortion”
Haley D (USA) #027
“Things didn't get easier like I'd expected them to. They got harder because of what I had done”
Karina (Australia) #026
“I stood up and said, 'No, I don't want this', and the doctor sided with mum, and said that I was just nervous about it all”
Deana (Wellington, New Zealand) #025
“The car ride home, I made a promise to myself that I would just try to forget. Forget everything. But all I do is remember.”
Beverly (USA) #024
“I was not offered any post procedure follow up psychological or medical support.”
Kate (USA) #023
“It didn't really hit me then. But as time went by, it started to.”
Tabitha (USA) #022
“I had an abortion 9 years ago that about ended my life.”
Tonya (USA) #021
“I've had 2 abortions. I say this with tears, not with triumph.”
Monifah M (USA) #020
“They made me feel like I had committed a serious crime...”
Erin (USA) #019
“I am never happy, and I feel bad if I do let myself smile or laugh.”
Carrie (USA) #018
“He left me four days after I found out I was pregnant, after he said he was ecstatic, after he purposefully tried [to get me pregnant] again.”
Angie L (USA) #017
“I had an abortion, and I think a part of me died that day.”
Kim Mitchell (USA) #016
“I became pregnant at 15 years old. I was coaxed by mother to have an abortion”
Jessica (USA) #015
“There is now forever a gap between me and my parents...”
Jane Norton (USA) #014
“When I finally told my mother, she didn't discuss any options with me, or give me any choices.”
Lynda (USA) #013
“His immediate response was 'abort this pregnancy'”
Rose (USA) #012
“Excerpts from my journal”
Ila H (Mount Vernon, NY, USA) #011
“That's when all of a sudden he started screaming you are so stupid and dumb...”
Rita (USA) #010
“The impression given was that I'd be a fool to do otherwise.”
Vicky Cooper (England) #009
“At no point did anyone ask me 'are you OK with this?'”
Jan (New Zealand) #008
“I went to Lifeline and was told I was grieving”
Denise (Australia) #007
“I have never cried so hard.”
Shelley (Oregon, USA) #006
“I cry every night, and I know I will for a long time espcially when the due date rolls around.”
Dawn C. (USA) #005
“I waited too long and had an abortion at 16 weeks pregnant. It was the most horrible thing I have experienced.”
Kathleen (USA) #004
“I saw the world's worst horror in a white enamel bucket ...”
Heather (USA) #003
Trying to avoid post-natal depression
Elizabeth (USA) #002
“Coerced into an abortion by a Lutheran pastor”
