Reply #34: 1975 - I was 17, a senior in high school

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and months away from graduation when I had my abortion. I regret that my parents never talked to be about sex, safe sex, or the results of sex. Being in small town Texas, the schools did not teach sex ed. If I had had that knowledge, the abortion decision would not have had to be made. I blame and have anger towards those adults and parents (and the "christians") who stick their head in the sand and won't allow sex education to be taught in school and who refuse to teach it at home. SOMEONE HAST TO TEACH THE KIDS ABOUT SEX!!

I'm glad I had the option of a legal abortion, though I would have had an illegal one if I had to. My parents were in the middle of a very ugly divorce and I was not mature enough, not emotionally stable enough, to handle being pregnant and in school or for being a parent myself.

I raised and taught my kids differently...I don't think (but do not know for sure), if my daughter ever had an abortion, or if my son caused a pregnancy. My husband and I always tried to be honest and upfront about the sexual urges of teen-agers and talked to ours frequently about birth control and STDs.

This is a choice left up to the pregnant woman -- not to politicians, not to men, not to other women...it's a personal decision and no one else has a right to judge that decision.

I had an abortion and I proudly signed the Ms. magazine petition.