The first time I had an abortion I was 19 and in my second year at a British university. My boyfriend and I had been together a year but we both knew it was a casual thing: he was a lot older than me and said he never wanted kids. We went on a mini-break but ran out of condoms on the last night. I figured I could get the morning-after pill the next day, which I did. But it didn’t work, and I found …

I was a married woman involved in an affair with a married man that I worked with (my supervisor) We thought we were in love until one day The married man started having cravings for peanut butter and he knew in the past the only time he craved peanut butter was when his wife was pregnant so I took a home pregnancy test and found out I was pregnant. And it wasn’t for my husband… I told the married man about the results and that’s …

As the procedure came near the end, in a panic I sat trying to get out of there. I wanted to scream from the pain, from the guilt of what I was doing. The doctor yelled at me to lay down. But before I did, I looked in the gray plastic container where my dead baby was laying. He was torn to pieces, arms and legs severed and ripped from his small body. The nurse told me the body parts had to be accounted for …

I had an abortion on April 30, 2004. This day was horrifying for me. I was married with a 2 year old at the time. My ex-husband and I were going through a very rough time, and I wound up having an affair. I wound up pregnant immediately, but was happy, nonetheless. This was a wanted child. I went to Planned Parenthood in Milwaukee for a pregnancy test. It was suggested that I come back for a follow-up appointment. At the next appointment a few …

On September 11, 2000, I had an abortion. It was a forced abortion. I was 17 at the time. I had told my mom that I was pregnant 4 days prior to the abortion. Those 4 days leading up were some of the worst days of my life. My mother beat me with a telephone and forced me to take pills to try and make me miscarry. When that did not work she forced me to drink castor oil. Of course that did not work …

My baby was aborted 45 years ago. It wasn’t legal then, but was done by a doctor. After it, I hemorrhaged so badly that I almost died too. At the time the hype was that it was just a bunch of cells until you had been pregnant for a certain length of time. After the abortion, I never having done drugs before, was plunged into a drug world that lasted several years. I also drank an awful lot of alcohol. I did marry the man …