3 Women Talk About What It's Really Like To Get An Abortion
If you're thinking about having sex or you've already started, you may have asked yourself the question: What would I do if I got pregnant? Even safe sex comes with a risk of pregnancy. Sometimes condoms break or maybe there's an issue with how your IUD was implanted. There's a chance you didn't have safe sex and now you're left wondering what would happen if you skipped a period and then realized you were pregnant. Even though an unplanned pregnancy can be scary, you definitely have some options.
One option is abortion (or a procedure that terminates a pregnancy). According to Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit organization that provides sexual health care, abortion is common - 3 in 10 women in the U.S. will have an abortion by the time they’re 45 years old. The issue with abortion is that there are a lot of myths surrounding the procedure (check out our video debunking them here). Search the term "abortion" on Google or YouTube and you're likely to encounter a lot of scary and false information that isn't actually representative of the procedure or the people who have experienced it.
So we asked three women to tell us their abortion stories. From whether or not it hurt to how they felt after the process, these women got real about why abortion was the right choice for them. Watch the video above so you can learn more and go here to get more information about sexual health care.
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