I've read several diaries here from women who bravely told their abortion stories, how they arrived at their decision, how they felt afterwards, how they feel years later. I want to share mine. While I've always been pro-choice, I never had to make the choice until 1997, the choice was mine, I owned it, and I defy anyone who would interfere with my right to make it. I am a woman of spotty fertility. I married a man who brought with him a son. We had a son together in 1982, and then..nothing. I always wanted a large family but seemingly was incapable of actually hatching one, so I flirted with infertility treatment, gave up, and concentrated on raising the children I had. When our youngest was sixteen, I turned up pregnant. I thought it was the change of life when my periods stopped. I was in my forties and really thought that ship had sailed. Yet there I was, really truly pregnant and fourteen weeks so by the time I had it confirmed.
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