"There wasn’t a lot of drama, just an ordinary story."

This story is published at Shout Your Abortion.

Three abortions, no regrets.

For a college philosophy assignment I examined the issue of abortion. In doing so I learned that abortion is a religious wrong in many but not all religions. Those who don’t see the cluster of early cells as a “soul”, i.e., a fully formed human being, simply don’t feel bad about having an abortion. Religious people shouldn’t be able to impose their belief system on those who think differently.

My views haven’t really changed. I think the judges who decided Roe v Wade came up with a perfect system.

I had three abortions, one when I was 18 and it was still illegal, one when I was 24, and the last one when I was 29. By that time I wanted a child but felt that my then partner would be a disaster as a father and I didn’t want to be a single mother. Eventually I met the right man and had a wonderful daughter.

I don’t know what else to say. There wasn’t a lot of drama, just an ordinary story. The end.

~Sharon

Mar 14 "There wasn’t a lot of drama, just an ordinary story."

Mar 23 "At first I was excited about becoming a mother but later realized I cannot afford to take care of a baby at that time as both of us were not working and that would mean burdening my mother."

Mar 12 "Considering our society's lack of support for pregnant women, especially single, unstable, poor ones, imagining that motherhood would have turned me into a model citizen is magical thinking."