As far as hot-button topics, it doesn’t get much hotter than abortion. Everyone has an opinion, politicians have taken their sides, and despite a Supreme Court ruling stating that women in the United States have the right to choose, the argument doesn’t look to be settled any time soon.
Women on the internet, though, have started to feel brave enough to come forward with the stories of why they did or did not choose to terminate a pregnancy, and no matter how you personally feel about abortion and abortion rights, it’s important to read these real-life experiences so that we can better understand the vast number and varying circumstances women find themselves in every day.
This girl, Brie, found herself pregnant at 17 after her boyfriend intentionally poked holes in his condom.
When I was 17 years old, I had a boyfriend. The second time we ever had sex, he poked a hole into his condom behind my back. This resulted in my pregnancy.
I was 17 years old. I was terrified. After a store bought pregnancy test showed I was positive I went to my boyfriends (1)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
He wanted to “lock her in” so that no one else could have her.
screamed with glee and told me that he had intentionally gotten me pregnant so he could “lock me in” because he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me.
I was confused & scared. I didn’t know how to act. I was 17 years old. My friend urged me to go to a women’s clinic (2)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
He wanted the baby, because he thought it would give him a lifetime of control over his or her mother.
to make sure. Little did we know that this “women’s clinic” was owned by Christians. They proceeded to tell me that if I killed my baby, I would be a murderer, and murderers go to hell. I was 17 years old.
My friend took my hand and dragged me out of that clinic (3)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
Brie didn’t know what to do, but her friend helped her make the decision to terminate.
In order for me to get the procedure as a 17 year old without parental consent, I had to go in front of a judge who would grant me my rights to an abortion as long as I wasn’t using it as a means for birth control. I was granted my rights.
I took the day off of school and my(4)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
A court gave her the right to make the decision without her parents, since she was a minor, and she had the abortion.
friend drove me to the abortion clinic. This procedure took all of 5 minutes. There was no baby to remove and dismantle. There wasn’t even a fetus. It was an embryo that took 5 minutes and no blood shed to remove.
I went home and through confusion, a lot of tears and pure (5)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
Later, her parents found out but were supportive…
support from my friend, I tried to continue on with my 17 year old life. Shortly after I had time to think about what had actually happened, I broke up with him. He proceeded to pull a knife on me, but he cut his wrists instead.
He said if he can’t have me, he doesn’t want (6)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
…while the now ex-boyfriend had turned violent and psychotic.
to live. I was 17 years old. My parents who found out about my abortion and what he had done to me banned him from my house. For 10 years after, he stalked me. He showed up at my work. He knew how to get my new cell phone number I constantly had to change because of him. (7)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
He stalked her for years…
It was only when the police arrested him for stalking that he left me alone. I thank God everyday that I don’t have his child. That he wasn’t allowed to “lock me in.” He is a psychopath and I would hate myself if I had brought an actual living and breathing child into this (8)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
…a behavior that only ended when he was arrested.
world with him as their father. I believe he would have killed us.
I’ve never spoken on this publicly. It has caused me pain and embarrassment, but if my story helps one person out there, then that means more to me than my pain. This is bigger than I am. (9)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
Brie believes neither she or her unborn embryo would have survived him, had she attempted to make a family out of the three of them.
To the girls and women in Ohio, Georgia and Alabama and more states to come, I am with you. I will never stop fighting for your rights as a HUMAN. Stay strong and never be ashamed of who you are and what you do with your own body. (10)
— Brie ? (@meowmeowmeow07) May 15, 2019
This is her story. Her life. Her decision.
She’s sharing it so you might have information about how and when some women choose – they feel, even years later, correctly – to end a pregnancy in utero.
I hope that reading it has brought more knowledge to the stable on the topic.