Story No. 435: Rachel from Massachusetts
In the late 1990s/early 2000s, I was among the cohort of kids exposed to abstinence-only-based education. In my middle-class DC suburb, the prominent focus was […]
In the late 1990s/early 2000s, I was among the cohort of kids exposed to abstinence-only-based education. In my middle-class DC suburb, the prominent focus was […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]