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Real Stories of Abortion

My husband and I had two beautiful children. The youngest was 15 months. It had been harder with two than one and we had multiple other...

Real Stories of Abortion

I have been married for 5 years, we already have 1 child and always planned to have another. It took us a while to get pregnant, but our...

Real Stories of Abortion

I had a daughter 11 months ago, her father left us because he wasn’t the family type and didn’t want us. I never thought about...

Real Stories of Abortion

When I found out I was pregnant for the third time I thought ‘three times, that’s really, really bad’, but then I thought to myself ‘I...

Real Stories of Abortion

I was told it was unlikely I would ever have children because of hormonal imbalance. So when I fell pregnant at 18 I felt couldn’t...

Real Stories of Abortion

I became sexually active at 17, and for a few years, used condoms and the pill. I also had the implant for about 6 months but I went back...

Real Stories of Abortion

I have never really used contraception. When I first started having sex at 15 my partner and I used condoms for the first couple of...

Real Stories of Abortion

My story is fairly straightforward – I’m childfree and always have been. My ex husband knew that but when he found out I was pregnant;...

Real Stories of Abortion

I am a mother of 3 children who live with their father. I had to fight in family court to even have contact with them during the time I...

Real Stories of Abortion

I had been seeing a chap for a good couple of months and quite casually. And yeah, we basically had been using condoms and we didn’t that...

Real Stories of Abortion

I was being sick and things like that. Just because I’ve got two already I sort of knew right away. It was my own stupidity. I left it...

Real Stories of Abortion

I came from a religious background and got married at 19. Six months later I fell pregnant because of the condom coming off inside me. I...

Real Stories of Abortion

I considered having an abortion after getting pregnant despite me having a Mirena IUS coil as my contraception. I was 28, happily...

Real Stories of Abortion

I went on the pill when I was 13 because I had bad periods, just absolutely horrible, so I went to the doctor and they said that the pill...

Real Stories of Abortion

I’ve been having sex for less than a year and I got pregnant. At first I thought I was just unlucky, then after all the information I...

Real Stories of Abortion

I ran out of the pill and couldn’t get an appointment at the doctors’ surgery, that’s when I became pregnant. Online, I had read that the...

Real Stories of Abortion

I had an abortion 5 years ago at 23. I had taken a couple of pills from my monthly packet very late and had missed one entirely, but...

Real Stories of Abortion

We are a family of 6. My husband had a vasectomy 10 years ago so we were not using contraception. When I didn’t come on I took a...

Real Stories of Abortion

My daughter was just 14 when she got pregnant. I split up from her father when she was 3 due to domestic violence. The court awarded her...

Real Stories of Abortion

The only time I didn’t use a condom I got pregnant. My boyfriend comes from a very religious background so he basically said to me ‘if...

Real Stories of Abortion

When I found out I was pregnant for the third time I thought ‘three times, that’s really, really bad’, but then I thought to myself ‘I...

Real Stories of Abortion

I had an abortion about five years ago when I was 26. I was only four-to-five weeks along and the decision was made between my partner...

Real Stories of Abortion

I’ve had two abortions, one at 16 and one at 21. I come from a catholic background so at 16 it would have been worse to have a baby out...