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.”
Katie (New Zealand) #084
“My family decided for me.”
Kelli (USA) #083
“He then told me I had to have an abortion.”
Laura (USA) #081
“Mom took me to Planned Parenthood and paid for the abortion.”
Laura (New Zealand) #079
“To me, it was a rushed decision, and a pressured decision.”
Amy S (USA) #075
“Most nights, I cry myself to sleep.”
Brenda (USA) #072
“I am 18 years old, and recently had an abortion.”
Susan Berger (USA) #064
“When I was 17 years old, I became pregnant.”
Fiona (USA) #053
“When I was 17, or 18, I had an abortion.”
Lacy (USA) #048
“I am 14 years old.”
Jasmine (USA) #045
“I was sixteen.”
Jamie (USA) #042
Jamie was 18.
Pam (USA) #040
“Why couldn't [Mom] just have talked with me about all this? Maybe we could have prevented this mess."
Pam (USA) #040
“I was 17 years old at the time. I was dating an older guy whom I'd had a huge crush on for months. I thought he was just everything."
Karen (Jamaica) #038
“I have had 2 abortions... The first time I was only 15 years old."
Samantha (USA) #036
“I was 14 when I got pregnant for the first time.”
Sarah (New Zealand) #033
“I am 15, and was on the pill.”
Deana (Wellington, New Zealand) #025
“I'm an 18 year old that lives in Wellington, New Zealand.”
Beverly (USA) #024
“I became pregnant at age 14 years 11 months, in May of 1970.”
Kate (USA) #023
“I had my abortion when I was 17.”
Monifah M (USA) #020
“I was still in high school.”
Erin (USA) #019
“I found out I was pregnant in the middle of spirit week at school.”
Angie L (USA) #017
“When I was 17, I was madly in love with Robbie.”
Kim Mitchell (USA) #016
“I became pregnant at 15 years old.”
Jessica (USA) #015
“It was the summer before my senior year in high school.”
Jane Norton (USA) #014
“My experience began in 1974 when I was 15.”
Rita Sigler (USA) #010
“At eighteen and still believing the world revolved around me, I believed them because it was what I wanted to hear.”
Dawn C. (USA) #005
“I got pregnant with my son when I was 16 years old and gave birth to him at 17... 11/2 years after my son was born, I became pregnant with a second child.”
Kathleen (USA) #004
“I was a 17-year old Catholic schoolgirl when I had an illegal abortion in 1971.”
Elizabeth (USA) #002
“I was 16.”
Links: ‘Younger Women (Under 20)’ stories
