I got pregnant when I was 22. My husband was certified sterile, but turned out not to be. Well, I'm a disabled woman. I have pretty bad manic-depression, and at the time it was NOT under control because my doctors still didn't know what was wrong with me. They just knew I was exhausted all the time and having some mental changes. Well, the hormonal changes from the pregnancy caused me to have a really bad depressive episode, and I couldn't get out of bed and missed a week of college until I could get the abortion. I knew I wanted the abortion because I had been childfree from childhood and the pregnancy was really making me sick. So my husband (then boyfriend) and I marched up to the abortion clinic and got it flushed on Saturday. I was able to go back to college on Monday, thank God. In retrospective, having that abortion was one of the most intelligent decisions I ever made. I'm so glad I had that abortion! I'm just sorry I had to be sick with the pregnancy.
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