My abortion story

Abortions save lives. Mine was one of them.

“Because you murdered my grandchild…” That’s what my father yelled at me the day I forced him to explain why he hadn’t spoken to me in three weeks even though we lived in the same house.

I was in my early 20’s when I had an abortion. It was a few years later that he was finally told.

Back then, sex was the only space I felt I had any power.   By the time …