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  • ...they'd want it, but by the time the galleys were ready, I was too far along to pull it.... That's how my mom found out about the rape ...and the abortion.  It's still hard for me to r...
  • I love this so much Colleen. I'm honored that you are publishing with us. (And I love your cover, you should share it!) Do you know about notalone.us? I am friends with...
  • I write about unsupported single mothering for almost a decade now, along with teenage mother loss, miscarriage & abortion as a solo mommy. Here's my page http://www.shewrites.com/...
  • Meg Bortin commented on her article Is This a True Story?
    ...vacy of the people described, but also to achieve a greater degree of emotional truth. I didn't feel I could tell stories involving pregnancy and abortion, for example, and name names,...
  • ...e gaps there. I wrote a short short story about a woman who had had an abortion at age seventeen and how it affected the rest of her life. I've never had an abortion (though I have a friend who d...
  • ...r many years due to the negative feedback of "abortion".  When I was forty-one I fou...y next morning to Miami Sinai Hospital for an abortion.  Because I was well into my...aby. I never regretted my decision to have an abortion as I knew I did not want to b...
  • ...about, and what that silence costs us.  Who among us will talk about rape within a marriage, thoughts of suicide, being grateful that you had an abortion or other topics that we are a...
  • ...bring up a big issue many, probably most women struggle with - supporting a woman's right to choose without being supportive of a women having an abortion. I think we can do both, I th...
  • ...s is a very timely and sensitive subject for many on both sides of the abortion debate. I have mixed feelings...value all life. There is a difference between being pro-life and anti-abortion. Thanks for sharing and bring...
  • Most people know I am against abortion, because it is the taking  innocent human life. Most people don't realise this, but abortion is legal in Canada upto 9 mon...keeps her child she tends not to have future abortions. If she has an abortion then...