I had an abortion when I was 18 years old after I was raped. I was raised pro-life and I am thankful for the experience I had because it opened my eyes in that you never know what situation a woman is going through and why she’s decided to terminate a pregnancy.

If a woman decides to keep her rapists baby, all the power to her, because that’s HER CHOICE. If a woman decides to terminate that is also HER FUCKING CHOICE.

No one is out here having abortions for fun. It wasn’t a “fun experience” for me at the time. I weighed so many things before I made that decision. I HATE when I see other women trying to force a pregnancy upon another woman.

My family at the time tried to force me into keeping it. I came down the stairs and they were in a circle of chairs, they tried to stop me from going to my appointment and everything. It was horrible. I never asked to be raped. I never asked to get pregnant.

Now that I’m with a man I love and we’ve tried to conceive and have suffered miscarriages I’ve had my abortion thrown in my face by my ultra-conservative family, saying things like “well if you hadn’t had that abortion maybe your babies would’ve been born” and shit like that.

Even though I have suffered losses I would NEVER and will NEVER justify forcing another woman to keep a pregnancy simply because of my loss. If you’re one of those women, you are toxic as fuck. Pro-choice forever and always.

I’ve never even talked about this openly because I was always so afraid what people would think of me as it was always drilled into me as a child, but I’m fucking over hiding who I am and what I believe for the comfort of other people.

I honestly think if every single woman who considers themselves pro-life were thrown in a similar situation as I was, none of y’all would be fucking pro-life.