Links: Women's Abortion Stories
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Personal Abortion Stories
Coerced by Male Partner
"Jill Nolan" "My boyfriend and my family insisted that there was no way out but to choose abortion."
Lisa "When I told my boyfriend his first words were 'abortion'"
Anonymous "He told me to get an abortion."
Anonymous "He said the child would keep him from his dreams and goals."
Deb "He gave me an 'ultimatum': the baby, or him"
Jenny "He… proceeded to storm around the house and yell and scream about how unfair life was to him."
Karen "Finally, it was my husband begging me to do it that made up my mind."
Linda "The father of the child wanted the abortion and that added more pressure."
Melanie "My former boyfriend was hounding me to have an abortion"
Coerced by Parents
Linda E "The doctor never conferred with me, only my mom"
Cindy Hendrickson "My father talked to me every morning about my getting an abortion"
Jenifer Skinner-Ahrens "I was also told that… if I kept the baby I would not be living at home"
"Jamie Smith" "My mother told me… that I must have an abortion. I did as I was told."
TT "At 15 I aborted my child. Under my mother's hand I did as I was told"
Anonymous "My parents freaked out"
Robin J "Mom said, 'You are having an abortion at 9:00 am tomorrow.'"
Anonymous "I was threatened I would have been kicked out"
Rachel "On the 'advice' of friends and pressures of family and my doctor, I caved in."
Colleen "They told me that if I had the baby, I would be completely on my own."
Amy "I was 15 when I had my abortion. My parents said I had no choice."
Andrea "My parents gave me an ultimatum either have an abortion or move out."
Diana "I buckled under [the] pressure and faked a miscarriage. In reality, I aborted my unborn child."
Jackie "They had to have total control over the situation, which was typical of them."
Naomi "It wasn't my choice"
Sue Forced by her mother to have an abortion at age 16.
Teresa "I knew I didn't want to get the abortion but I didn't know how to oppose my dad."
Jennifer "I used my savings to get an abortion."
Sexual Assault (Rape, Date Rape, or Incest)
Anonymous "One night I was raped, became pregnant and had an abortion."
Anna "It was expected of me"
"Doris Kalasky" Forced abortion following incest
"Nancy Anders" "Before I had time to think about what I wanted , the abortion was over. "
Foetal Abnormality
Debbie "I cried like I never cried before. I knew what I was expected to do."
Young (Age 18 Years, or Younger)
Jeanene Clark "I agreed. I was never counseled towards anything, or offered any alternative other than abortion."
Anonymous "[The doctor] never said anything about the options I had -- he just started organising my termination."
Jeannie "No one who supported my abortion supported me in my depression."
Marion Syverson "God wants me to have an abortion"
Sonya "Because I was afraid"
CV "I was scared and alone"
Anonymous "Before long, I realized, with terror, that I was pregnant, and saw only one way out: abortion."
Anonymous "I went through with the abortion because I didn't want to be selfish"
Anonymous "When I found out I just panicked"
Anonymous "I was 16. I was scared."
Amanda A poem for Joshua
Betty "I really didn't have much of a choice"
Chris "His reaction had changed"
Diane "Having an abortion was one of the hardest and worst things that I have ever gone through"
Erika "When I found out, it was shocking!"
Sally "So I thought that abortion was my only solution"
Maternal Age/Health
Anonymous "My doctor strongly advocated abortion because I was over 40."
Michelle: "The doctor wanted me to have an abortion. He said that one or both of us would die."
Repeat Abortions
Danielle P "Between the years of 1989-1993 I had seven abortions in all"
Alice "Along with being a new mother, I was thrust into dealing with my old grief."
Kym R "I can not write about my other aborted little boy, not yet. He was buried beside his sister"
Late Abortion (After 12 Weeks Pregnancy) and/or Medical Abortion
Janice "I was 19 weeks and had a prostin abortion where I delivered a dead baby"
Anonymous "When I looked in the commode, I saw laying in the center of the placenta my baby. I remember the scream that came from my mouth."
Sally Garneau "I became curious and looked under the covers to see what was there."
Linda G "I couldn't believe that my doctor hadn't told me that my baby was eight inches long"
Anonymous "I made a decision which ruined my life."
Andrea " I was late on into the pregnancy to be making a choice like this, but I was confused."
Anonymous "I was four months into my pregnancy"
Chris "I was 15 years old when I aborted my baby at 18 weeks and 7 days."
Infertility After Abortion
Judith Evans "I had to have an early hysterectomy because of it."
Christine "Not being able to have children… has made me a very bitter woman."
Anonymous "The doctor that performed the surgery did some damage… I can never be a mother again"
Recent Abortion
Anonymous "It's been three weeks since my abortion and it still seems like everything reminds me"
Anonymous "I only had an abortion a few weeks ago "
Anonymous "If I hadn't had an abortion in August, I would be due in a month"
Anonymous "About a month ago I had an abortion"
Failed Abortion (Foetus Survived)
Sharon "The abortion clinic would not talk to us at all"
Various
Charlene E Campbell "We were told that we would be relieved"
Carolyn "Allen" "I immediately blurted out, 'I have to have an abortion.'"
Kathy Williams "It takes the acceptance of others to deliver us from shame."
Teri Lightheart "I was not prepared at all for what was about to happen to me"
Anonymous "I cried myself to sleep at night. "
JS "I was trying to prove my love to him"
JB "I thought things would be better between the two of us for some reason. I was never so wrong."
MOAC "For four years I was in constant torment, pain, grief, guilt, denial, self hatred, anguish"
Mary "I lost weight, my sanity, chain smoked and slept with a razor that I didn't have the courage to use."
Zara "I will never be the same person again. I have changed."
Katya Ma "For a man I gave up a baby."
Dana "I did the most terrible thing"
KE "With all the confusion I never took the time I needed to make the right decision"
Anonymous "I wasn't ready to have child, but I wasn't prepared for the regret and the shame I would feel"
MV "The last thing that I wanted to think about was the abortion and it seemed as if I had no choice"
CG "My due date was on my birthday. Why should I celebrate my birthday?"
Tricia K "I didn't want to, but I didn't feel that I had a choice"
Karen H "I thought if I decided on an abortion then no one need know I was ever pregnant"
Anonymous "I had no support… I felt that I had NO options"
Anonymous "I panicked. I was so afraid and just absolutely devastated"
Anonymous "The hardest thing is to forgive yourself! I wish I could"
Anonymous "I didn't consider any other way out than abortion"
Kirsten "The pregnancy test confirmed my fears and I was just hysterical"
Anonymous "I didn't feel a sense of relief. I was very depressed"
Angela Bennet "Unfortunately, guilt does not like to be sent away, never to return"
Beth Lutheran "I know the fear, the panic, the anxiety of an unplanned pregnancy"
Connie "At the time I panicked. I had to find a way out of this problem"
Dana "That was what young girls did when they had an unplanned pregnancy"
Dee "It was like an assembly line"
Janice "After 2 weeks I have decided to get post abortion syndrome counseling"
Judy "I saw the pregnancy as a way to take my freedom"
Karen "The 20th anniversary of my abortion"
Kathryn "After a few agonizing weeks, we decided that an abortion was our only alternative"
Kathy "It all just seemed too hard and I was panicked"
Michelle "I need to have a place to kneel, cry, regret, and dream"
Sue "I did feel a sense of relief after it was over. But…"
Tanya "I was told I would forget it easily and how easy the procedure was"
Lists of Stories
'Post Abortion Stress Syndrome Support' Website
'Former Women of Choice' Website
'Carolyn Gargaro' Website
'Rachel's Vineyard' Website
'Rachel's Vineyard' Website
'Elliot Institute' Website The Jericho Plan , by David Reardon
'Westside Crisis Pregnancy Center' Website
'Frederica Matthewes-Green' Website Real Choices , by Frederica Matthewes-Green
'Love Matters' website
'Abortion TV' Website
'Silent Scream' Website
September 8, 2008
Monday, 8:39 pm
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