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I Regret Having an Abortion at Eighteen
But here’s why I still support women who choose to have one of their own
They knew what they were doing. While everyone distracted themselves with Kylie Jenner’s complete miss of the Met Gala theme, they made their move. And by the time news leaked about Roe V. Wade and the internet went ballistic, what could we do?
As I watched all the viral Tiktoks and the news explode as people raged on both sides, I thought about my own experience. I haven’t for a while, but I still remember the day I went to Planned Parenthood.
I was seventeen, ready to turn eighteen in a few months. They almost didn’t perform the procedure because I needed to be eighteen without my parent’s permission and the baby would be too far along. I made it by about two weeks. Most days I wish I hadn’t and had to have the baby.
But I was a teenager in love, invincible. I didn’t pay attention to my missed periods. How could I be pregnant? We were careful enough, weren’t we? And it was once.
When the doctor looked me in the eye and told me I was pregnant, I didn’t believe her. In fact, I had just run into the room after peeing in a cup to discover blood, saying, “oh, thank God! I got my period, it’s all okay!”
