After-Abortion Stories

My boyfriend and I had only been intimately together for 2 months after years of knowing each other when I became pregnant. We hit 3 months when I took the test that confirmed it. I had previously been on birth control for 15 years of my life and it had made my life...

Elizabeth was nine years old when her body first turned against her. Doctors called it a compromised autoimmune system, words far too big for a child. What she understood was simpler: she got sick often, she hurt in ways other kids didn’t, and her body didn’t fight...

I’m 21 years old, fresh out of undergrad. I found out I was pregnant very early around 3 weeks and 4 days and I honestly didn’t know what to feel. I was anxious, scared, worried, and shocked that a soul was being created inside of me. I told my family and the father...

Standing in the bathroom at 6 am, seeing those two lines on the test, in hand, hovering over the cold bathroom counter; is something you can never truly be prepared for. After telling my partner about the current state of affairs (the affairs being my body), it was...

I am 18 and finishing my bachelor's program. In February, I would've never expected my life to change once I found out I was expecting. My baby was only 4 weeks and 6 days, even earlier when I had found out. Prior, I knew I was set on the idea of abortion, the stigmas...

I had been on the fence about having kids for a while until two years ago when the possibility began to seem more realistic. I wanted to wait a little longer until trying and would have prefered to have another year or so before getting pregnant but my partner made...

My abortion story I didn’t make this decision lightly. I didn’t wake up one day and feel sure. I sat with it. I cried through it. I questioned myself more than I’ve ever questioned anything in my life. In February of 2025, I left my fiancé after I found out he had...

This was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make in my life. From the moment I had the thought that maybe I was pregnant but dismissed it because there was just “no way I’m pregnant” to the moment I took that pregnancy test and saw those two lines indicating a...

To live in this society means that going through an abortion is a quiet and oftentimes isolating experience. In the aftermath of Roe V Wade being overturned it became not only scary to seek reproductive freedom but also taboo. I found that in the days leading up to my...