Liz Price

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I had an abortion

1993 Australia (متولد Australia)

My decision to end my pregnancy was very clear. I had no doubt that the decision was for the best. I remember feeling emotionally exhausted though, being awayf rom home and firends and family as the situation unfolded. The morning sickness was horrid, and started when I was still hiking in Africa. I remember the shame of vomiting in the sink in the airpoirt toilet and confiding to the woman next to me that I was pregnant. She glanced at my hands and saw no ring and walked out with a look of disgust. The sadness I felt afterward abortion was knowing that that the last time I had with my Grandfather was clouded by my "difficulties". I found that the hardest thing to get over. But these were the consequence of the unplanned pregnancy not of the abortion.

The abortion experience itself was okay. The Doctor who performed the procedure was known to me. When I was a University student I used to deliver pizzas to him! I remember thinking he looked like a kindly elf, dressed in his green surgery gown.

The pregnancy resulted from a one-off encounter with a man now referred to as "Carl the Impregnator". I had no desire to raise a child on my own.

آیا غیرقانونی بودن سقط جنین بر احساسات شما تأثیر گذاشته است؟

I had received some counselling from a worker with the british Pregnaancy Advisory Service prior to returning to Australia. She offered me great kindness, detailed infomration and a complete abscence of judgement. Returning to Australia, particulalry Queensalnd, to ahve the procedure down was a different story. The illegality of it under Queensland law did make me feel like I had to be very careful about who I told and how I told my story. It changed how the clinic recorded my reasons for ending the pregnancy, with them highlighting my concern that the anti-malarials I had been taking might have effected the fetus rather than the fact that I was sinlge and young and ill equiped to make a go of parenting. When only some sorts of abortions are deemed lawful it does alter how you tell your story and how you remember you story; it is like you have to let go of a little bit of your own truth.

واکنش دیگران نسبت به سقط جنین شما چیست؟

Mixed. My close frineds were all very supportive as was my Aunt and Mum and my brothers. My Dad struggled with it a bit and there were other family members who knew I could never tell. Although I had my abortion in Australia, I was in England when I found out about the pregnancy and was so ill with morning sickness that I struggled to spend any quality time with my grand father. This was sad for me because it was the last time I ever saw him.

Bárbara

Fiz o procedimento ontem e quero contar com riqueza de detalhes , por isso…

Karolina

Miałam aborcję

K

I was extremely lucky to find a safe place for my abortion.

Dolores Feffer

I had two.

No woman should ever have to justify a dessicion on her own body.

Megan W.

I had an abortion. There has been no complications so far, but don't have a…

Gadzinka

Moja aborcja przemineła tak jak miała , wziełam tabletki potem dojadałam .

Daniela

My perception of so many things changed a lot with this experience and realised…

Lise

I had an abortion and I don't regret it. It was a hard decision but one I knew…

Ania

Wczoraj dokonałam aborcji.
Odejście od męża, związanie się z nowym, wydawałoby…

Estefanía

Si se lo pudiera decir a alguien sin que me juzgue no me sentiría así

Mariana Leitão

A tal história do “ engravidei por acidente” é real!

Sharon

I don't regret my abortion.

Vittoria

Me siento vacía ...

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Jordan

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Bia

E no começo me arrependi mas vi que seria a melhor opção, e escrevendo meu…

Katy Nunes

Meu corpo: minhas regras. Eu decido se e quando quero ter filho.

Amanda

E não me arrependo, não se culpe por isso
Você é dona de si.
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