Stuffy (S.A.) Reagan

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Involved in international travel in my 20's, I worked for a year within the United States military in Heidelberg when West Germany, 1974.

2021 Netherlands

I like whom I've been able to grow into. There was pain and "repercussion" from family and cultures around me; I don't think I'd change anything for myself. For others, I hope my storytelling can help. ("Seizure of Contentment"-unpublished and "From the Nuthouse and an Outdoor Existence"-a Poetry and Pictorial Art book available on Amazon.com in eBook and Print form since 2019.

I was shocked to discover the pregnancy and found myself too unprepared and far from "relatives" or my own support to give to the prospect of this opportunity I'd hoped to replicate better, later. I became unable to do so in the environment abroad and also back in the U.S. I had a "post-partum"/culture(s) shock depression that has been mitigated and rebalanced among my artist endeavors, subsequent illness, recovery reclaiming my original traveling abroad initiatives to become a lesbian-feminist poet, activist, athlete, scholar and healthcare practitioner, partner of a quintessential Hawaiian-Chinese woman for 25 years.

main man had mouths to feed already, perhaps he was married. I'd had a lot of inducement around me to get pregnant, but I'd found support in going ahead had been short-sighted most of all in/by myself.

How did other people react to your abortion?

One of my partners, a younger man, (American civilian) shared excitement with me when I got a 2nd statement of status from military services confirming the pregnancy near where I'd worked and where my other partner was stationed active U.S. Army. This Black soldier had only recently told me of ties, including children in the states, affording me no grounds of "association." Early on, he'd offered to use a condom. The first partner and I had used some birth control, whereas we had not. A close female associate of mine at work had only given me the address of klinik in Holland, I'd found my way to.

Rachelle

I have had 3 abortions, one clinical, 2 medical. I do not regret those…

Jane

I had 2 abortions

Gemma

The best decision for me.

Esperanza

El adiós más difícil.

Jennifer

Sin duda ha sido la decisión más difícil que he tomado en lo que llevo de vida

amas

La experiencia de mi aborto. Realmente me asusté

Bryann Turner

It was the right decision for me at this time.

Clarice

Sempre fui a favor do aborto, não por uma questão feminista, mas por acreditar…

Blue

The decision was easy, but the emotions were not.

The person who got me…

P. C.

Fiz um aborto e senti vergonha de Deus, mas fiquei aliviada.

Montse

"Un acto amoroso"

Ammy

Yo he estado en las dos caras de la moneda, cuando tenia 16 años quede…

Jillybean

Women's bodies belong only to us. Men, families, society, have no right to…

Ashley Engbrecht

At the young age of 17, I was the victim of sexual assault. There is nothing…

chiquiss67

Hola.

Tengo 22 años y aborte en febrero de este año. Me di cuenta de que estaba…

Mónica

Aborté por motivos de edad (demasiado joven)y económicos (era estudiante y no…