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I look back on that day and really think of how much of a fool I was. To think that I would just forget about it and move on with my life was just a dream. It is still and will always be there. I aborted my unborn child, and no one close to me knows. 
I was only 18 with a babe in the arms and one on the way. The nurse told me I was selfish to keep your older brother just a few years earlier. She said, I was just 15 - to young to be a mother. At 18 there again, with you, I was pregnant with another. Planned Parenthood had told me I was a burden on society that I was the kind to drain the system clean, a parasite, if you know what I mean.
Ok. So I guess this is my first time ever publicly admitting to anyone other than just a handful of close, personal friends that in February of 2008, at the age of 29 years old, without hesitation I chose to have an abortion.
Questions of whether to have an abortion or to carry the pregnancy through is a question my own mother was faced with. She was in her second trimester when she found herself sick with German measles. Her doctor warned her of the complications that her illness would have upon her child...
I've read people’s stories and cried myself to sleep, but that’s not the only reason I've cried myself to sleep for the past 8 days. My wish is that anyone who is thinking of doing what I did, read this and don’t go down the same road.
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