After-Abortion Stories

A year later I am laying in bed, visiting my father in WI, and still navigating grief. Earlier today, he showed me baby pictures of myself and tears swelled up immediately. A year ago- I made a choice that seemed easy at the time because I had made it before, and I...

The first time it happened I already wasn’t in a good place mentally. I was smoking weed, taking pills, anything just to feel numb. That day we had sex, I smoked and mixed some pills, my (now) ex completely unaware. I don’t even remember it ending. I just woke up...

I didn't get to know you in the ways that I wanted. But I'll always carry you in my heart. Things didn't go the way that I wanted them to. But you'll always be part of me. Whenever the time is right, you will not be replaced. Only have I known about you for a week,...

When I found out I was pregnant, I was with a friend. It was a surprise for sure. We joked about how I’m pregnant and how it was too early to have a baby. I told my boyfriend later that day, joked about it and told him not to worry. That I would “take care of this”. A...

I had been dating my boyfriend for a few years but I felt like our relationship had run its course and we were just incompatible anyways. He was emotionally absent, always lying to me, and seemed interested mostly in just having sex with me, not really connecting on a...

It’s been a year since I ended your life. I’m sorry that I had to do that. Some days I think it was the right choice, although deep down I know I would have kept you under different circumstances. I wish I would have given myself a few more days to think. I hope my...

I made the choice of having unprotected sex, knowing its risks. Me as my teenage self right now, ignored those risks and did not think I would get pregnant (for some odd reason I thought that). My period did not come for the month and I started to worry. I went to...

They say that most women feel relief, not regret. I must be in the minority. What is the point of this regret? I can't go back in time. I can't bring you back.I know that in time it will pass. I can't seem to function right now. I can't get anything done.I hate seeing...

I felt something I was told I could never have.I saw what I was told could never happen.I felt what I’ve never wanted ( or so i thought) Till the moment this thing could be real. I bled you out. Hours of pain and anguish were deafening to say the least. I truly...