In 1971, I was raped and viciously beaten by an intruder in my apartment. I ended up in the nearest teaching hospital’s emergency room. I had a fractured jaw, three broken ribs, I was black and blue from forehead to knees, and I had severe internal lacerations. The first 18 hours were a blur. My [...]
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It was 1959 and I was an extremely young 19-year-old. I was pregnant and could not tell a soul except the man involved. He wanted no part of it but at least gave me the $500 for an illegal abortion and then I was on my own. I can’t remember how I made contact, but [...] I am 85 years old and I had 4 abortions – and I am not sorry! When I was young abortions were illegal and I went through hell finding doctors and having the abortions.I was not married at the time – funny – I was married 3 times and never got pregnant. Anyway – it [...] The first one was in approximately 1968 and was illegal. It cost $1,200.00! I was to be let off at a particular corner in Newark, NJ, and was to wear white gloves. I then got picked up in a limo, with another girl in the back seat already. We were taken to a high-rise apartment [...] In 1971 I was a very smart girl who still managed to find herself pregnant. I grew up in a large family and I was the clever one who would go to college. But I also thought I was in love with a boy and one thing led to another. We ended up having unprotected [...] My abortion was in 1970 in Hawaii when only Hawaii and New York allowed legal abortions, pre Roe v. Wade. I had full anesthesia. I was a junior at Oregon State University, became involved with an Abusive African American man who pressured me into sex (I thought I wanted what he wanted even though I [...] I was teaching my first year out of college. It was 1965 (actually New Year’s Eve, 1964), and I got careless — the first time (getting careless) in a two-year relationship. And becoming pregnant was just not an option for me. I didn’t think twice about what to do, but those being the days before [...] Hello, my name is Connie, I am 55 years old, I have had two abortions and I am NOT sorry. I also ended up having a daughter I didn’t really want but I will get to that a little later. The first abortion was when I was 17 years old, back in 1971, before Roe [...] I was 17 when I had an illegal abortion. It was the late 60s, and I had just returned home from a three month marriage to a batterer. One day, my dad sat down, facing me, and asked if I was pregnant. I nodded. “What are you going to do?” “I’m not having it.” He [...] I hope you are able to elicit responses from even half of the women who have had abortions in the past 40 years. I think my story is quite common. I had two abortions in the late 1960′s. In both cases, I was correctly using birth control methods prescribed by a doctor, but those methods [...] |
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