“I would say it was almost a spiritual experience because I was honoring myself. This is the kind of abortion experience I want for other women.”

“I hemorrhaged and almost died in the emergency room I ultimately landed in - but they refused to do a D&C.”

“I would not be the woman, mother, sister, daughter, friend, and citizen I am today had my rights been stripped of me years ago.”

“I don't know if he ever told anyone, but I never did, except one boyfriend ten years later, who used it against me when we broke up a few months after we began. I never did that again. Not even my husband knows.”

“No one should have to have, or express, a ‘good enough’ reason to get an abortion.”

“‘Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?’ he tells me, clearly saying that nice girls don't get into this kind of trouble.”

“I had the opinion that if someone got pregnant, it was their choice and their responsibility. And I even debated in a classroom setting that abortion was wrong.”

“When I called to make the appointment they told me there might be protesters outside. I'm really thankful there was nobody outside.”

“When I did start telling people, they were open and honest about their own experiences. I realized how common it is. Not just abortions and miscarriages, but all sorts of reproductive challenges.”

“Abortions happen on specific days at Planned Parenthood and the protesters know which days those are. Both times I entered the building they all stood outside holding up signs and yelling at me.”

“The doctors leaving the area is about so much more than just abortions, or anything related to them. Women's healthcare can save lives.”

“This was my penance, my prison sentence for taking the first life that I created.”

“I needed intervention, and trusted my OBGYN when she helped me in this very vulnerable and grief-stricken time in my life.”

“For my lover and me, we each had an equal part in creating the pregnancy, but the impact was entirely on her.”

“The reason is between me and my healthcare provider. Hard stop.”

“I wasn’t pregnant, nor asking for an abortion, yet because of the very restrictive laws in Idaho, I have no gynecologist.”

“We both had come from warm loving families and knew that we were not yet ready to do the same together.”

“All night I had slept curled around the plastic container that contained my blood, her blood, the blood that grew from an egg that formed in my body when I was still in my mother’s body.”

“When I think of it, all I feel is gratitude.”

“I remember the day I had an abortion vividly, but probably not for the reasons that you think. It wasn’t scary, or traumatic, or upsetting. In fact, I remember it as one of the most positive days of my life.”