myLIFEstory

“I am the mother of six children. I miscarried one child at nine weeks gestation. My oldest living child has bipolar depression and a mild form of autism. My second living child was born with a severe clubfoot deformity. My third living child is profoundly intellectually disabled, legally blind, and has a seizure disorder. My […]

“I was orphaned and human trafficked. By today’s standards I would have been an unwanted child and would have been a prime candidate for being aborted. But, I’ve raised three successful children—one whom has earned a PhD and two whom are entrepreneurs with their own businesses. I have about 15 grand kids who all doing […]

I was 23 when I got pregnant. It was not from rape, but also not fully consensual. I had internalized not only a “you can’t say no,” but also a “you will die if you try to resist” mindset after a brutal rape a few months earlier. So, even though my partner asked, and I […]

I’m an old lady now, but I have had experience with abortion and feel a responsibility to tell about it—as often as anyone will listen. I knew little about abortion until I was in nursing school in the late 1960s. I assisted with surgical abortions through the third trimester. In addition, I took care of […]

I had a girlfriend when I was 23—we were not “responsible,” I guess. I was in school, she worked. She got pregnant. We didn’t want to abort, but our parents, both sets divorced and not really “family people,” told us we should, so, late-term, we did. We had already named the baby Peanut based on […]

When I was 20 and a junior in college I became pregnant. I was in a long distance relationship and searching for love. My boyfriend wanted me to have an abortion. He didn’t want a baby to raise for 18 years and he was involved in some drugs. He would pay for the abortion. I […]