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In reply to the discussion: Abortion: Not easy, not sorry [View all]Freddie
(9,231 posts)82. Me too. Also 1978
2 people know, my boyfriend (now husband) and my college best friend, who took me to the clinic. Didn't tell bf until long after the fact, as we were a new couple and I didn't want to complicate things. When I finally told him, he wished I had told him them but that I did the right thing. We were 20. Now many years married, 2 kids and 2 grandkids.
My daughter is a nurse and fiercely pro-choice too, and I've never told her. When faced with an unexpected pregnancy of her own, she made the other choice and had my beautiful granddaughter, married the guy and they just had a planned-for baby boy.
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Divorced, three children, one severely disabled, one abortion. I did not want another child to raise
jwirr
Oct 2014
#8
it does have to do with money for a lot of women--they can't afford to have kids.
yurbud
Oct 2014
#19
I'm proud of you for doing what was right for you and for your future family.
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#22
Agreed, I use to believe I am pro choice but I would never have an abortion myself
Heather MC
Oct 2014
#43
One of the lies I have seen being spread now by the Christian Taliban is that women who terminate
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#64
A dear friend--a former Catholic Sister of Charity nun and extraordinarily credentialed nurse--
Ineeda
Oct 2014
#71
I've gladly helped a minor over the state line to bypass the shit parental notification.
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#29
I find it sad and pathetic when one cannot see a private medical decision which allows a woman to
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#54
I don't know why you feel it necessary to inject your 'personal feelings about the nature of the
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#57
I am not running for any office. But if you're implying you would vote against choice because I am
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#78
lol. are you talking about boob jobs? because that's how i feel about those.
La Lioness Priyanka
Oct 2014
#56
When I was younger, I didn't have a single female friend who hadn't had an abortion.
valerief
Oct 2014
#65