It has been exactly twenty-four hours since my abortion and it was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life. I had broken up with my boyfriend quite a few months ago and started feeling depressed. One of my friends thought she was helping and decided to take me to a party. At the party I met a guy and we seemed to get along pretty good. He kept giving me drinks and I thought he was trying to get me drunk so I ended up switching to water, but it still didn't matter. He was slipping drugs into my drink and before I knew it I passed out and when I woke up he was on top of me, raping me. It was the worst experience of my life. After that all I wanted to do was forget that it even happened and I was in denial for a while. Then I stopped getting my period and was scared. I kept waiting and finally took a pregnancy test and found out that I was pregnant. I called Planned Parenthood and scheduled an appointment to have an abortion. I arrived and they performed an ultrasound and I found out that I was twelve weeks. Going through the abortion was very uncomfortable for me; I have a very low threshold to pain. The cramps were almost unbearable, but it was a small price to pay. The thought of having a child by a man that I was raped by just wasn't a possibility for me. If I didn't have abortion available to me, I don't know what I would of done. I kept thanking everyone for the amount of relief that I felt. Right now, I couldn't be happier with my decision. If I had to do it again though, I would have skipped the party and stayed home.
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