Abortion Stories

Personal stories about abortion women shared with us.

Fuck SCOTUS.

USA 🇺🇸 just banned abortion. Poland banned it a little over a year ago. I have no words. Working on The Choice, VR documentary] I of...

Abortion Story - Loisha

In February 2018 I left work after a night shift and bought a test, my period was late and I had started to fear the worst. I used oral...

Kayleigh's abortion story, UK

My name is Kayleigh, I am from the UK and I am 33 years of age. I found out I was pregnant on the evening of 22nd August 2018 (a...

Tatyana, Canada: My abortion story is nothing but positive.

My abortion story is nothing but positive. I luckily live in Canada, where abortion is completely legal and accessible (not always easily...

Karin, Montreal: The news we received shattered our world.

When I first learned I was pregnant, I was ecstatic. My husband and I had been married for almost a year and it felt so right. We had...

Cheryl, USA: "Each of my pregnancies ended the way I chose."

In late 1991, I unexpectedly got pregnant. I had a kid already, about six months old. I was using condoms. I hadn't really thought about...

Back seat of a car, depression, and healing - Megan, USA

When I was 17, one night my parents were coming back home super late, so I decided to stay out with friends. I didn’t realize how much...

Kristen, Texas: my ob/gyn said everything was fine.

My husband and I got married within a year of dating because we wanted kids with each other. Having Celiac disease, I was ready for...

Becoming a father. An idea that has been cycling through my mind for 25 years - Dan, Canada

Becoming a father. An idea that has been cycling through my mind for 25 years. Early on, when I was a young man, it seemed more like a...

I don't think anything could've prepared me for that moment I heard, "It's positive" - Leigh, Canada

I don't think anything could have prepared me for that moment I heard, "It's positive". I sat, body numb, and tears began flowing from my...

"I felt ready to have a child" - Sarah, Canada

[Important information: the whole story was written by Sarah. Text written with italics are excepts from her diary that she was writing...

Strength and courage: Courtney's abortion story

It was 2005, my first year out of high school and I was 19. I had just started dating a new guy. He was handsome, wildly free beyond...

Growing up in Catholic country - Kasia's abortion story, USA

The first time I got pregnant I was in my early twenties. I left Poland when I was 22 years old, dropped out of college and came to live...

Before Roe v Wade: Marcia's abortion story, New York

At the age of 19 I was dating a man 10 years older than myself. Despite using contraceptives I became pregnant. At the time I was in my...