Poll, please take it. It's important.

[flamablechica]

I just wanted to take a quick poll, please answer the questions.

1)Have you had an abortion?

2)How old were you?

3)Do you regret it? Why or Why not?

4)Any other comments:

Just take it and leave it in the comments, please take this I'd really appreciate it. It's important.

EDIT

It's for a school project.

Sorry I didn't put that before.

Comments

[youngerthanshe]

1) Yes

2) Nineteen

3) No. I never intended on getting pregnant, and when my birth control turned out to have failed I was horrified. But I have always since I could remember been 1000% pro-choice, and when I ended up in the situation I did I was pleased to find my beliefs grew nothing but stronger. For a while after I was sad, but mainly for the reason that I also lost the guy involved (he'd split up with me before I even found I was pregnant). I never, ever, EVER regretted what I did. Mournful, yes. Regretful, no.

4) I went for a conscious sedation surgical option (at the cusp of 6/7 weeks, so that is the experience I have to share. I felt much more comfortable with this- less worry because I knew exactly when the proceedure would start and roughly how long it would take to be over (minutes). It was performed with manual suction (like a big syringe affair) so there was none of the scary noise or giant machinery pro-life people might suggest was common. It worked for me! :)

[froggergirliee]

Why is this important? I'm leery about having members of this community give out their personal information when the purpose is not specified and the information can be easily gotten by reading through back entries. Please edit this post to reflect this information by 5 PM or I will delete it.

[flamablechica]

I'm sorry, you can go ahead and delete it if you want too. I should have put why. Its for a school project.

[youngerthanshe]

I'm sure she just wants to make sure that this isn't going to be used for some pro-life guilt trip situation :) One has to be careful where such sensitive emotional issues are concerned- we don't want members spammed with the usual headless fetus images (yawn!).

I'd be very happy to do an email interview / over msn / about my abortion experiences, almost one year on. Always happy to help research and school projects- perhaps to give some truthful arguments to people at schools. Its so easy to rant about abortion in the abstract and ignore the reality behind people's lives.

[flamablechica]

Yeah I understand.

Thank you :-)!!!!

[imnotyourstar4]

I just wanted to take a quick poll, please answer the questions.

1)Have you had an abortion? Yes

2)How old were you? 15

3)Do you regret it? Why or Why not? I did at first, moreso because people said I should than the fact i acutally did. Now I know i did the right thing for myself and never think back.

4)Any other comments:
www.imnotsorry.net

[_finally_woken]

1)Have you had an abortion? Yes

2)How old were you? 14

3)Do you regret it? Why or Why not? Yes in respect that it wasn't really my choice and i've always wondered what i would have done if it was my choice. Maybe i would have chosen the same, but you know maybe i wouldn't...?

4)Any other comments:
no

[shinyobject]

1)Have you had an abortion? Yes.

2)How old were you? 18

3)Do you regret it? Why or why not? Yes. I could have taken care of a kid, I really want to have kids, I just didn't want to be "that girl who got pregnant right after high school and dropped out of college and worked a shit job for the rest of her life." I was scared, and I didn't want to have a kid just because I wanted someone to love me.

I'm really in favor of legal abortions, and incredibly grateful that the option was open to me. I just can't get over the fact that I don't have those cells inside me anymore. I feel empty, and numb, and like I'm unworthy of ever being loved again.

4)Any other comments: I'm pro-choice. I just made the wrong one.

and me

[1madgirl]

1.) Yes
2.) 21
3.) Yes, I regret it, and no, I don't. I was fully aware that something was living inside me (parasite or not), and because we don't have words for ending life other than "murder" (I was thinking using "liberate" in the Terri Schiavo case might have been appropriate), I have essentially committed murder--and that changed me as a person. I am still pro-choice, and I firmly believe that when one life depends 100% on another life in order to exist, you should be given authority on whether or not you want your body to be used in that way. At the same time, up until that point in my life I viewed myself as something of an "innocent" and this occasion forced me to come to grips with the dark side of myself--which is both good and bad. I don't know if I would have found my dark side without this incident, but I also don't know how long it's going to take em to fully accept my *good* side again.
4.) Any other comments: I agree with the poster above.

[eyelid]

I feel empty, and numb, and like I'm unworthy of ever being loved again.
:( you are worthy of being loved. One action doesn't mean the rest of your life is nothing or the person that you are is gone.

I hope you feel better soon.