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Story No. 429: Lisa from Colorado
I was 32, white, married, and a college graduate. I had two “planned” preschoolers. From the outside, our lives looked perfect: a stable income, nice […]
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Story No. 423: Danielle from New York
I had an abortion when I was one year out of college, living with my boyfriend of one year and attending a postbaccalaureate teaching program. […]
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Story No. 411: Danielle from New York
I was 23 years old when I found out I was pregnant for the first time. I was less than a year out of college […]
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Story No. 405: Lynn from Washington
I am a 49-year-old woman who became unintentionally pregnant at 18. I was young, in college, away from family and friends, and I think I […]
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Story No. 399: Elizabeth from Massachusetts
In elementary school health class in the 1990s, we watched a video about getting your period—heavy on basic biology, but not very helpful. The real […]
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Story No. 393: Irene from California
Ever since I was a teenager, Planned Parenthood and similar clinics large and small have helped me access health care when I could not otherwise […]
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Story No. 391: Patient from New York
I have had the great fortune to be able to carefully determine when to create my family. As a college student, I found out that […]
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Story No. 385: Elinor from Iowa
While working as a substitute teacher full time after college, I used Planned Parenthood for my reproductive health care. This included receiving the Gardasil HPV […]