I am 30 years old and in a loving marriage. I already have three children from a previous marriage that are very much a part of both of our lives. Now was just not the time for us to have another child though at some point we plan to. We’ve only been married for 7 months.

I have a neurological disease and take medication that could have caused severe complications to the fetus. Imagine the impact of having a child with severe birth defects and how that would have affected my perfectly normal happy living children. I think it would have been extremely selfish to have taken that chance.

We are both intelligent and up and coming in our careers. The pregnancy had already started to impact my job. I have had previous issues with hyper emesis, constant throwing up makes it a little hard to go to work everyday. Whoever termed it morning sickness is very wrong it’s all day long and wakes me up in the middle of the night sickness.

Though I knew it was the right thing to do it was a difficult decision to come to. I felt irresponsible, not that I had been. I had a biopsy done several months ago and the doctor accidentally removed my IUD. I don’t do well with the pill it causes me to have severe migraines, I was actually scheduled to have my IUD put back in the week I discovered I was pregnant.

The actual process wasn’t bad at all. I think the fear was the absolute worst part. It only takes a few minutes, and there was no pain just a little discomfort. 9 months of pregnancy and 8 hours of child birth would have been much worse. The clinic I chose was very supportive and so were other women that were waiting. I spent 5 hours in the clinic. Ignore the protesters if there are any, we can all use Photoshop to create disgusting pictures and what they show simply isn’t true.

I like that we have this choice as women. I didn’t think it was one I’d ever make for myself but when I outweighed the positive side of having another child it didn’t even come close to the benefits of terminating the pregnancy. I know that I can still have another child when my husband and I are ready and more settled in our careers.