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Anonymous

I was 17. My family all had babies young and I didn’t want that for myself, I couldn’t imagine that life for me. Even though I was on the pill, I had unprotected sex and my body just felt different. I took a pregnancy test, it was positive and visited the first available GP. She confirmed my pregnancy and when I said I would like to explore other options, she printed me out a factsheet in silence and told me to leave.

I sat in my car and cried for about 20 minutes before calling a private clinic. I was lucky I had some savings to afford the procedure but it didn’t stop me feeling terrified walking in. Thankfully the nurses at the private clinic were so kind and made me feel like my choice was nothing but that, a choice. I think about my abortion often. But only in that way that I hope no one else has to feel the way I did before walking through the doors of that clinic. Every deserves a choice.

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