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.
Feb 12 Feb 12 "I don’t regret it, I didn’t want this." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Location Not Given “I was completely alone during the whole process. My boyfriend knew what was going to happen and how serious this was, but he opted to spend the first two hours of the second medication admission in the gym. He just said ‘if you really need anything text me,’ knowing he was meant to stay with me.” 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.
Aug 12 Aug 12 "It was a 15-minute talk that was highly emotional for the both of us, but this talk was full of love and support and relief." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Tennessee, United States “This was a secret from everybody else, nobody knew about this, and I had nobody to talk to about this. My husband gave me space but also gave me support, and I know it was hard for him on deciding how he should help me through this, but I can tell you that he did a wonderful job on keeping me going.” 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.
Jun 30 Jun 30 "Now the fear has doubled, and now the work has doubled, and now my life as I knew is doubly gone." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Nevada “I did not want two children running around this house while I tried to figure out what went wrong, and I did not want a family that would be financially insecure with me going out looking for handouts. I did not want to take care of a baby so soon, and I would have gone insane if I was taking care of two babies at the same time.” Read more.
Jun 28 Jun 28 "Finding out we were having twins was like an ice cold bucket being thrown at my face!" Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Canada “Shock! I spent the day problem solving. We would have to sell our house and move to a cheaper town. That would mean I would have to quit my job and my partner could not pursue his current ambition to start his own company.” Read more.
May 20 May 20 "They will always be with me in spirit and that gives me peace." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Location Unknown “Confident in my decision, had my boyfriend by my side. Then they pull me aside. They tell me… there are two. Twins. I instantly started bawling my eyes out. How, why, what now? Everything they said to me after that was a blur. I still knew my decision was not going to change but I felt alone in the clinic, having to continue making that decision with the new information I had.” Read more.
May 5 May 5 "I tried to wrap my brain around it in so many ways but it just seemed impossible." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Canada “My partner wanted to keep them, so I didn’t have him take me to the appointment. I just needed unwavering, guilt free support. The clinic was amazing and supportive, my family and friends have all been supportive but it still a very isolating place to be.” Read more.
Apr 17 Apr 17 "I was definitely thrown for a loop when they told me, but I am happy and confident in my decision." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Location Unknown “I went in for my surgical yesterday and discovered I was carrying twins. If anything, it made me more confident in my decision. Though termination was what I wanted 110%, I won’t lie that there wasn’t still a little part of me that was sad that I’d be terminating two, not just one.” Read more.
Feb 9 Feb 9 "I was wracked with guilt because it’s the way society told me I was supposed to feel." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins “I didn’t share my experience or the way it affected me with anyone. I was too ashamed to share and so the negative feelings stayed with me for many years. Then I started talking about it and everything changed. I realized that abortion is common.” Read more.
Jan 31 Jan 31 "The doctor told me that if I had them, I could die in childbirth." ~ "El médico me dijo que si los tenía, podría morir en el parto". Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, Mexico, English/Spanish “I felt that the world was coming down on me, maternal feelings arrived. But I became more conscious and I knew that this was not the right way, I decided that I would not have them despite everything, counting that my family would not even support me, and my boyfriend is still very immature.” Read more.“Sentí que el mundo se me venía encima, llegaban los sentimientos maternales. Pero me volví más consciente y supe que ese no era el camino correcto, decidí que no los tendría a pesar de todo, contando que mi familia ni siquiera me apoyaría, y mi novio aún es muy inmaduro ”. Lee mas.
Jan 22 Jan 22 "I don't regret my decision, but it just made it so much more heavy, that there were two, rather than one." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins, United States “Choosing to have an abortion, to not reproduce, aligns with my goals for myself. I had just left a long relationship, I needed to work on myself and just got caught up in a fling. If I would have had them, they'd be tying me to some random, older dude for the rest of my life. Plus I'd have to figure out how to raise not one, but TWO babies, when I can't even take care of myself.” Read more.
Dec 8 Dec 8 "It would be double the amount of struggle to try and care for them both." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins “The doctor looked so confused and looked up at me and said, “Do you have any multiples in your family?” There are basically no twins in my entire family, so I just said “no not at all.” She turned the screen towards me and two little blobs instead of one were popped up on the screen. “There’s actually 2 of them, if you can see that,” she says to me. 2? Twins? Something about how rare this is, drives me nuts. It feels like I’m spoiling an opportunity given to me. I feel like . . . I don’t know how I feel.” Read more.
Dec 3 Dec 3 "My boyfriend and I had to take a break, walk around the block a few times, have a tea, and discuss it some more." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Twins “During the sonogram portion of the procedure, the lady asked me if I’d like to see the sonogram (nope) or hear any details about it (no), or know if there were multiples (um, kind of morbidly curious as I’d always sort of fantasized about having twins and I am related to at least one set of twins). Sure enough, it was twins.” Read more.
Nov 14 Nov 14 "They were so loved in the short time that I was able to carry them." Sharing Truth One Abortion, Conjoined Twins, Later Abortion, Second Trimester, Kentucky, United States “She pulled up the ultrasound so that we could take a look. Our baby, which had appeared completely normal at our 8-week scan, was actually a very rare form of conjoined twins. They shared one upper body, but there were 4 legs and 2 spines. We were in complete shock. I don’t think either of us knew how to feel in that moment. All I could do was cry.” Read more.
