Jan 10 Jan 10 "I celebrate abortion and how it has helped me co-create the many blessings present in my life." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Pennsylvania “What happened after the abortion? I followed my dreams. I became a teacher. I graduated from college and earned two graduate degrees. I lived in three different countries. I wrote poetry. I journaled. I healed. I studied topics that made my heart sing and applied to jobs that aligned with my heart's many callings. I started working. Slowly but surely, I found my confidence again. I adopted a dog. I got married. Skipped across a river of milestones that wouldn't have happened had I been forced to pursue that pregnancy back then.” Read more.
Jun 27 Jun 27 "When I found out I was pregnant in 2019, something felt off and wrong." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, United Kingdom “At 6 weeks the clinic said they think there was 2 sacs but maybe 1 wasn't viable. This broke my heart and I figured something was wrong with the pregnancy. I scheduled the termination and at 8 weeks+ I went back. They did another scan and they were both there. I broke down. The ladies in the clinic said they wouldn't do it as I wasn't sure, but I wiped my tears and said no just do it otherwise I won't get this opportunity again.” Read more.
Jun 22 Jun 22 "The whole scan I was shaking trying not to let the tears stream out. Complete disbelief. Complete guilt and shock." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Australia “As a natural nurturer, someone who loves every part of motherhood, this decision took so much of me. Selfishly I would have loved to have kept them, but logically it wasn’t the right time and ultimately I had to think of everyone else around me more than what I wanted in my heart. As someone who knows how much work being a parent is, it just wasn’t our time.” Read more.
Jun 1 Jun 1 "The ultrasound tech starts her process and I hear some of the scariest words I’ve ever heard in my life: 'Looks like there’s two!' " Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins “Going through all of this has opened our eyes to all of the complications and intricacies that go along with abortion. I have a newfound appreciation for a woman’s right to choose because there are so many factors that might lead to making the decision that I found myself making. I never thought I’d have to make that decision. NEVER. But here I am.” Read more.
May 24 May 24 "Going from two kids to four is not something I wanted to do and looking back I don't regret it." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Video and Text “I had to think, if I go through this pregnancy, what is my life going to look like right now? I was literally two hundred dollars away from not being able to afford my apartment or anything. I have two children and they are little and I don't get much help even though I struggle, I don't get much help but you know nobody else sees that.” Read more.
May 8 May 8 "I didn't know they were twins. It was my dream, but then again we are not capable enough to raise them." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins “I cried so much that I choose to abort them — but thinking on the other side, no one would help me to take care of them. I was cesarian on my first. Thinking that it was very risky, what more if having twins. We spend 200 thousand pesos on my first delivery and still not recovering from it.” Read more.
Apr 14 Apr 14 "His ability to walk away was heartbreaking and still makes me very sad sometimes." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Montana “I have been working on being easy with my body, and trying my best each day, even if that just means getting out of bed to pee. For me, I was pretty much alone during the worsts parts. I am not in a committed relationship, and this was the result of a one night stand. He was there for the easy parts (the appointment, the days before), but once things got hard, he walked away.” Read more.
Feb 28 Feb 28 “I was 20 years old and not mentally, physically, or financially equipped to raise two children." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins “When I found out I was pregnant with twins, I was getting over my eating disorder, and I was 98lbs. My partner and I lived five hours away from each other. I knew abortion was the right decision for me. I remember feeling shame, guilt, and very alone as I walked into the abortion clinic with my boyfriend. The people outside the clinic were yelling at me, calling me “mom” and vomiting their religious beliefs at me.” Read more.
Feb 13 Feb 13 "I could not emotionally or mentally handle more children right now." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Location Not Given “Because of my choice, I am able to the best parent I can be to my daughter.” Read more.
Oct 20 Oct 20 "I grew up in a toxic household and I didn’t want that for them." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins “Coincidentally there was an older lady in the waiting room that I felt the urge to ask if she ever had an abortion and she said she did. She said that she aborted twins and that years after luckily she had another pair of twins with the right man & father. I felt like it was a sign for me to hear her story and she gave me reassurance that it was going to be okay.” Read more.
Aug 18 Aug 18 "When all I wanted and needed was my family and friends to support me, they were absent." Sharing Truth One Abortion, One Miscarriage, Twins “My only regret is blaming myself. I have felt the need to justify why I had an abortion to so many people. When in reality, it was and is none of their business. I went through this on my own and I am proud of myself for the strength I never knew I had.” Read more.
Jun 3 Jun 3 "We're not in a place financially to have TWINS -- TWO CHILDREN." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins “On one hand I felt relieved because it would make my decision easier. I’m 24, a teacher, and my boyfriend and I just renewed separate leases planning to movie in together next year when this one is up. On the other hand I feel 2 times as bad for terminating two potential lives.” Read more.
Mar 31 Mar 31 "I was so overwhelmed and spent weeks trying to figure out how I'd make ends meet." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, South Africa “After weeks of thinking, I resolved to go through with it. It seemed okay, but I grieved about it more than I thought I would. The bottomline is I know that with everything involved had I chosen to keep them I wouldn't have been able to give them everything.” Read more.
Mar 14 Mar 14 "I went to the clinic to schedule my abortion and found out I had two babies in the same sac. " Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Location Not Given '“I looked it up and the probability of Identical twins is 3 or 4 in every 1000. Which is super insane. I told my parents and the other part about this is this would make my pregnancy very high risk, due to the possibility of their umbilical cords wrapping around each other or getting tangled together.” Read more.
Jan 4 Jan 4 "I thought a lot and chose to continue being the mother of the children I already have." ~ "Pensé mucho y elegí seguir siendo la madre de los hijos que ya tengo". Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Argentina, English/Spanish “The truth is that I never thought that I would have an abortion but sometimes you have to value the life that you have already formed if there are already children that are growing up.” Read more.“La verdad es que nunca pensé que me haría un aborto pero a veces hay que valorar la vida que ya te has formado si ya hay hijos que están creciendo.” Lee mas.
Nov 7 Nov 7 "I knew that I would regret having them more than I would regret not having them." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Australia “The hardest part is the fact that it was my experience alone. Yes, the pregnancy was both mine and my partner’s, but it was my body. I was the one who felt sick all the time, I was the one going through the changes in my body. I was the one who went through the procedure, I was the one who spoke to the doctor. As much as he was there for me, he could never truly understand what I went through. Neither could the other friends I spoke to about it.” Read more.
Oct 12 Oct 12 "My heart was breaking, but I strongly felt it was the right decision to make." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Australia “Now, nearly a year later, I still feel grief, but no regret. I often think of what our lives could have been like and feel glad that we made the decision we did. I am pregnant again with another baby and we are happy. I wish I hadn't had to make such a tough decision, but that's part of being a parent. I am so grateful I had access to a safe termination.” Read more.
Oct 1 Oct 1 "It was going to be the wrong time to have a baby, let alone two." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Location Not Given “When we found out we were pregnant we found out it was twins. The pandemic just started, we just moved in with his parents to save for a house, and not stable to have kids. I was also told I had lupus, and that has high risk all over it.” Read more.
Sep 1 Sep 1 "We were a newly married couple with the entire world going against us." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Texas, Later Abortion “Sadly our pregnancy happened at the same time when the pandemic was taking over the world. I vividly remember asking my husband if we should keep it? It was the first time I referred to our pregnancy as an IT, but we both realized that our lives took priority. We finally got an ultrasound completed and we found out that we had twins. That was the end of it for us.” Read more.
Jul 30 Jul 30 "The idea of two babies, with a higher risk of health issues, was too much for me." Sharing Truth Twins, One Abortion, United States “I started crying during the ultrasound and the rest of the appointment passed in a blur. I called my husband from the parking lot, completely hysterical. We talked when I got home and decided we can’t do twins. We have no support network where we live, I would have to quit my job soon, as travel is a requirement and a twin pregnancy is too high risk for even domestic travel.” Read more.
