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By Theresa Bonopartis I can certainly tell you what a coerced abortion feels like. I remember it as clearly as if it happened yesterday. I was a pregnant teenager kicked out of the house, isolated and alone. Nowhere to go, no one to help, no money, no job, nothing. I remember the desperation , feeling […]
Catherine of Abortion Alternative Information and Support writes: … I really wanted to keep the child. But I was very frightened, because I had been abandoned by all around [me] and because bringing a child into this world seemed such a huge responsibility — not for my sake but for the child’s. I tried, in […]
Note: The following is an excerpt from the book Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief After Abortion. I remember the events surrounding my abortions clearly. There are some things that are so utterly terrible, so devastating, they never fade from the mind or heart. I idolized my boyfriend, whom I met when I was […]
Guest Opinion by Theresa Bonopartis Salon.com, an online magazine, recently published an article “Why Women Have Second Trimester Abortions” by Irin Carmon. As a woman who had a second trimester abortion I found it inaccurate and, to be frank, downright offensive. Ms. Carmon begins with the line, “Despite thumb sucking fetuses you see waved around […]
Note: This story is reprinted from the book Victims and Victors: Speaking Out About Their Pregnancies, Abortions and Children Resulting From Sexual Assault. When I was about 13, my stepfather started molesting me. It continued until I came forward with it when I was 16. At age 15, I became pregnant. No one knew but […]