I am 26 and just had my first and hopefully only abortion. I am a single parent of a beautiful 6 year old and didn’t want to be a single parent of two. I had always said I would NEVER have an abortion until this happened.
I was semi-involved with a co-worker of mine. Of course we had sex multiple times unprotected and I was on no birth control. I knew once my monthly cycle did not come I was pregnant. I took a home pregnancy test at work to keep it away from everyone I knew. Then the nausea from morning sickness came. It took me a few days to bring myself to tell him. He has two children from previous encounters. I didn’t ask his opinion in the matter; my mind was made up. He did agree with what I was going to do and paid for half of the procedure.
I called and made the appointment. The clinic wasn’t the greatest for information and I had to ask all the questions. When I went in the staff was courteous, and the doctor explained everything to me. I work in the medical field so I understood all of it. The procedure didn’t hurt much at all, nor did I have much pain the days there after.
Emotionally and physically I am fine. I go on day to day like nothing happened. My co- worker and I are still friends. We are going to take a break for now and we know once we go to the next level what we have to do.
It has been a week since my abortion and I am very thankful I had an option of what to do. I am still having no emotional problems and especially no regrets.