Abortion Story
I am now in my late 70s and had an abortion when I was 3O. The BPAS must have been very new then. Many of my friends had accessed ‘illegal’ abortions during the previous decade and one had died as a result. The stigma was frightening. Even though I had to go through the humiliating […]
Abortion Story
I found out that I was pregnant when I was 17, through not using contraception, during my A levels in 1977. I had no steady boyfriend and was about to finish school. I had no problem terminating the pregnancy at about 14 weeks. 2. My husband and I discovered I was pregnant, though I had […]
Abortion Story
I had an abortion when I was eighteen, in my first year at Cambridge University. I never told my parents, and close friends and my boyfriend helped me arrange the abortion and get to the clinic and back. Although I was in a relationship, I was not ready to settle down and start a family […]
Abortion Story
I have never wanted children, and always known this. I became pregnant with my long-term boyfriend when contraception failed. It never entered my mind to keep the fetus. I had a positive pregnancy test at a GP’s and immediately took the steps with them to book an abortion. The abortion was a week or so […]
Abortion Story
Dear Level Up, I am a young woman, and an intersectional Feminist believing wholeheartedly that abortion is a form of basic healthcare, I have many stories to share personally, as a Friend, and then professionally as a Midwife supporting many women and girls through terminations. Personally, I have only ever taken the morning after pill, […]
Abortion Story
I was in a committed relationship, or so i thought, we already had one child, but we were not married. When my first was 10 months old I became pregnant again and I was delighted and surprised, I was using a dutch cap. I always wanted more than one child having come from a big […]
Abortion Story
I had an abortion when I was 43 and i had an irregular menstrual cycle which meant that I was fertile when I expected not to be. I was so grateful to be able to have an abortion because I did not have the mental or physical capacity to have a child neither the desire
Abortion Story
At the time of my abortion I was 38, happily married with 1 step daugther. I was unsure if I wanted children until I became pregnant. At this point, I knew my life would drastically change should we keep the child. It was the winter time and I thought I had the flu, I felt […]
Abortion Story
My story, what I’m about to say, is very much real, very eye-opening, and has changed my life, forever. I was 20 years old. I had decent grades at university, just got into my first real relationship, secured a job, had a comfy accomodation, everything was going as it should be. I have a faith, […]
Abortion Story
At 7 a.m., the morning after Election Day, I sat in the bathroom stall of a Publix, staring at two red lines on a pregnancy test. I think I already knew. The shock wasn’t there—just the confirmation I had been hoping to avoid. Before I knew it, life flashed before my eyes. I was running […]