After-Abortion Stories

I was 22 and had just graduated college in May. My plan was to begin my first teaching job in August, but for now teaching half day summer school was next up. I met a boy one month before graduating that I really liked, we stayed together after graduating. His plan...

I have had the hardest past few months of my life but also the most life changing. And somehow beautiful. But I killed the beautiful part. I was the person here to protect them the most. And now I just have whatever I have. What a position it is when you have to...

CW: Medical Description I’ve been searching far and wide for a story like mine after my abortion and can’t seem to find any. I had it all planned out, I wasn’t going to tell anyone outside of my inner circle and just pretend it didn’t happen. I don’t plan on having...

I am a mom of 2 boys, with my youngest going into kinder last year all the feelings came and I felt like I needed another child, a 3rd. I cried for months thinking about how much I wanted to have another child and my husband and I decided to try for one more, we tried...

I wanted the closet.  I wanted the small room in our house.  A closet for me where my inner child could be healed. Where my makeup gets done and the trying on of clothes takes place infront of the big mirror. A place where girlhood at its finest shows....

CW: Stealthing  A year or so after my divorce which was very painful so I wasn’t ready for anything super serious yet I was casually dating. I had met him a few times before and we had had sex with a condom once before. So I thought that would be the same when I...

I made my decision quickly. I was 20 years old, scared for my future and the life I had envisioned for myself since I was a little girl. The rush of emotions that flooded my body when I flipped over that test was indescribable: terror, anxiety, distress and panic all...

I miss you. I’m sorry I didn’t realize how much I loved you before I made my decision. I still believe in a woman’s right to choose, and I take full responsibility for my choice—but I will miss you forever. Money was tight. My village was small. My heart aches knowing...

Becoming a mom has changed how I feel about my abortion six years ago. I'm now a mom to a newborn baby girl and the grief of the previous abortion has impacted my pregnancy and being a mother now. I was passive in my decision making, putting all responsibility on the...