"Jill Nolan"
"My boyfriend and my family insisted that there was no way out but to choose abortion."
Carolyn "Allen"
"I immediately blurted out, 'I have to have an abortion.'"
Kathy Williams
"It takes the acceptance of others to deliver us from shame."
Teri Lightheart
"I was not prepared at all for what was about to happen to me"
JS
"I was trying to prove my love to him"
MOAC
"For four years I was in constant torment, pain, grief, guilt, denial, self hatred, anguish"
Mary
"I lost weight, my sanity, chain smoked and slept with a razor that I didn't have the courage to use."
Zara
"I will never be the same person again. I have changed."
Katya Ma
"For a man I gave up a baby."
Dana
"I did the most terrible thing"
KE
"With all the confusion I never took the time I needed to make the right decision"
Cindy Hendrickson
"My father talked to me every morning about my getting an abortion"
"Jamie Smith"
"My mother told me… that I must have an abortion. I did as I was told."
TT
"At 15 I aborted my child. Under my mother's hand I did as I was told"
Anonymous
"I was threatened I would have been kicked out"
Anonymous
"One night I was raped, became pregnant and had an abortion."
"Doris Kalasky"
Forced abortion following incest
"Nancy Anders"
"Before I had time to think about what I wanted, the abortion was over. "
Rachel
"On the 'advice' of friends and pressures of family and my doctor, I caved in."
Colleen
"They told me that if I had the baby, I would be completely on my own."
Jennifer
"I used my savings to get an abortion."
Jeanene Clark
"I agreed. I was never counseled towards anything, or offered any alternative other than abortion."
Jeannie
"No one who supported my abortion supported me in my depression."
Marion Syverson
"God wants me to have an abortion"
Anonymous
"My doctor strongly advocated abortion because I was over 40."
Michelle:
"The doctor wanted me to have an abortion. He said that one or both of us would die."
CV
"I was scared and alone"
Anonymous
"When I found out I just panicked"
Anonymous
"I was 16. I was scared."
MV
"The last thing that I wanted to think about was the abortion and it seemed as if I had no choice"
CG
"My due date was on my birthday. Why should I celebrate my birthday?"
Judith Evans
"I had to have an early hysterectomy because of it."
Christine
"Not being able to have children… has made me a very bitter woman."
Anonymous
"The hardest thing is to forgive yourself! I wish I could"
Anonymous
"When I looked in the commode, I saw laying in the center of the placenta my baby. I remember the scream that came from my mouth."
Sally Garneau
"I became curious and looked under the covers to see what was there."
Linda G
"I couldn't believe that my doctor hadn't told me that my baby was eight inches long"
Kirsten
"The pregnancy test confirmed my fears and I was just hysterical"
Beth Lutheran
"I know the fear, the panic, the anxiety of an unplanned pregnancy"
