An increasing number of young women have had an abortion, or have a friend who has had an abortion.
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So why would you want to have had an abortion?
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Most women who have had an abortion are already mothers.
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I have had an abortion and I support this message.
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Immediately, doctors asked her if she had had an abortion.
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"1 in 4 women have had an abortion," she tweeted.
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Her mother told a newspaper her daughter had an abortion.
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In 290, an anonymous woman had an abortion in Sweden.
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If you haven't had an abortion, support those who have.
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She had an abortion and entered treatment to get sober.
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They knew I'd had an abortion and were punishing me.
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"So, I had an abortion the other day," I tweeted.
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I am sorry I revealed that I had an abortion.
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Ms. Lee went to a hospital and had an abortion.
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Last year Ms. Hall-Chisler, who is 26, had an abortion.
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Her mother told a newspaper her daughter had had an abortion.
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"I would have had an abortion to be fair," Beth says.
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Like Pablos, Layidua Salazar had an abortion while under deportation proceedings.
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Every woman who's had an abortion or miscarriage processes it differently.
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"I had an abortion when I was 18," she told them.
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More than half said they had an abortion to make others happy.
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Kim had an abortion at the Planned Parenthood in Kalamazoo in 1986.
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Kristin Mink had an abortion years ago and doesn't want to explain why.
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In another case, a patient had an abortion that failed, according to Williams.
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Jorge did seem oddly calm when Laurel told him she'd had an abortion.
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Lorenz became pregnant at only 19, but had an abortion before leaving Cuba.
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"Every girl in Ireland knows someone who has had an abortion," she said.
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I hear stories from women whose grandmothers had an abortion before Roe v.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Last year, I had an abortion.
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When Aiden asks her if she's ever had an abortion, she initially lies.
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I probably would have lost the baby anyway, so I had an abortion.
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And like so many American women of reproductive age, I've had an abortion.
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As for Brown's claims that Gilles was pregnant with Belafonte's baby and subsequently had an abortion, Gilles does confirm she had an abortion, but says the pregnancy was the result of a one-night stand, something she confided to Brown about.
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I went alone to Planned Parenthood in New York City and had an abortion.
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If I hadn't had an abortion then, I would not be having you, now.
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"When I was younger I had an abortion," she wrote on Instagram Thursday morning.
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The Girls creator said she found herself explaining that she'd never had an abortion.
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In 2011, the site began hosting personal stories of women who've had an abortion.
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"[The] whole situation could have been avoided if she'd had an abortion," she said.
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Everyone loves someone who has had an abortion, though we may not know it.
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Around 20% of respondents said they had had an abortion despite it being illegal.
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Women believed to have had an abortion are regularly reported to police in Lesotho.
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"I bought some pills from a pharmacy and had an abortion," says the teen.
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One of the twins had an abortion after her pregnancy was discovered, the outlet says.
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Rose McGowan is revealing she had an abortion and opening up about her difficult decision.
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The outlet also reported that medical records show she had an abortion while in rehab.
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They accused her of having had an abortion, a crime in Morocco, Souliman Raissouni said.
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She says none of that would have been possible if she hadn't had an abortion.
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According to the Health Ministry, 50,000 women had an abortion in South Korea last year.
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But by six months to a year, they're similar to women who had an abortion.
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Steinem also writes that she had an abortion at age 22, when it was still illegal.
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I realized that, had I not had an abortion, I would be almost seven months pregnant.
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And 14% of women who had an abortion in 2012 already had three or more children.
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During which, she got pregnant, and in an effort to end the pregnancy, had an abortion.
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Studies of Western countries suggest that few women who have had an abortion regret their choice.
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Brown earlier claimed Belafonte impregnated the nanny during their marriage and Gilles later had an abortion.
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For example, they are strongly anti-choice, yet one had an abortion during a complicated pregnancy.
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One had an abortion, because she no longer felt capable of going through with the pregnancy.
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But I don't know where I would be now if I had not had an abortion.
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Nearly 70% said they felt they would be stigmatized if people knew they had an abortion.
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Misleading hypotheticals show disregard and contempt for people who have had an abortion later in pregnancy.
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I was eight weeks pregnant in that shot, but later that week I had an abortion.
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There's a joke she once made on her podcast about wishing she had had an abortion.
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"I think people would be pretty surprised to learn I've never had an abortion," Schumer tells PEOPLE.
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Then, Jo drops what may be the final major secret of her past: She had an abortion.
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Jackie Speier shared that she had an abortion at 17 weeks from the floor of the House.
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After Jorge makes a suspicious visit to the Middleton campus, Laurel tells him she had an abortion.
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For one thing, it marked the first time a Latina character has had an abortion on television.
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Confession: Nearly a decade ago and almost two months into my first pregnancy, I had an abortion.
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In fact, she says that she doesn't know a female track athlete who hasn't had an abortion.
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Texas considered a bill that would threaten women with the death penalty if they had an abortion.
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The proposal goes beyond removing protections for the LGBTQ community and those who have had an abortion.
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But Jezebel recently published a stunning interview with a woman who had an abortion at 32 weeks.
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It's common for doctors to report women who have had an abortion or attempt to obtain one.
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Research shows that one in four women will have or have had an abortion by age 45.
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"If a poor woman suffers a miscarriage, she's immediately suspected of having had an abortion," Bukele said.
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The legislation struck an especially personal chord with Philipps, because she says she had an abortion at 15.
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I did not want to be pregnant, and I had an abortion, and I was not pregnant anymore.
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Joyce, 24, had an abortion at the Kisumu clinic last year so she could continue her university studies.
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"I didn't know that story, until I asked my mother if she's ever had an abortion," Porter said.
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" She concluded, "Now I can say that I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had.
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The 2016 Lena Dunham apology tour keeps chuggin' along ... this time for wistfully wishing she'd had an abortion.
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Mr Sanders said Mr Trump's call for punishment of a woman who had an abortion was "beyond comprehension".
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"It's so obvious that she had an abortion because she was raped by her own brother," Rahmawati said.
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One, being positive about abortion, and the other being almost like a check mark — 'I've had an abortion.
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"At the time, I didn't know anyone who'd had an abortion, let alone an unsuccessful one," she says.
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I've added my name to a Statement along side 40+ women who have had an abortion in NSW.
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She had an abortion one day after a court ruling in October forced federal officials to allow it.
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I had an abortion when I was in a toxic relationship with someone who ultimately cheated on me.
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Participants were divided into three groups: 328 women who had an abortion during their first trimester; 383 women who had an abortion two weeks before the legal gestational limit in their state, and 163 women who were denied abortions because they were past the state's limit and who ultimately gave birth.
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Kate Carson had an abortion at 36 weeks after finding out that her daughter had a fatal brain abnormality.
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Rosalyn Baxandall, 65, had an abortion in the 1960s and then again when she thought she was in menopause.
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Doe successfully obtained a judicial bypass and had an abortion around a month after finding out she was pregnant.
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One of her closest family members had an abortion decades ago and has struggled with her decision since then.
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The ads will include "patient voices," including two women who had an abortion before the landmark 1973 Roe v.
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The victim had an abortion on returning to the UK, with her doctor reporting his concerns to social services.
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On social media, people were posting selfies of themselves wearing "Everyone Loves Someone Who Had an Abortion" T-shirts.
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The Saturday Profile An investigative reporter from a prominent Moroccan family was wrongly accused of having had an abortion.
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Ms. da Silva's 11-year-old daughter became pregnant and had an abortion, prompting a child protection agency visit.
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She shared her story publicly for the first time with her #YouKnowMe tweet, 10 years after she had an abortion.
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She had an abortion six years ago, and despite taking all the precautions afterward, found herself pregnant again last November.
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She's a rare candidate who talks openly about both her criminal record and the fact that she had an abortion.
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The group National Research on Abortion (PNA) shows that at least one in five women has already had an abortion.
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If they experience depression or anxiety and have had an abortion, it's crucial for researchers to know which came first.
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Jameela Jamil disclosed she had an abortion after last week's signing of a controversial six-week abortion ban in Georgia.
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Partly because the bill would ban employers from discriminating against employees who've had an abortion, use contraception, or are pregnant.
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She became pregnant but later had an abortion after Child Protective Services questioned her about the relationship, Vera told investigators.
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The only person who didn't judge me was an [aunt] that had an abortion at the same age I did.
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Almost a year ago, Jezebel published a widely-read interview with a woman who'd had an abortion at 32 weeks.
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"I had an abortion when I was young, and it was the best decision I have ever made," she explained.
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And 1 in 3 women had an abortion because they were worried their partner would leave them if they didn't.
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But in 1974 she had an abortion, which was illegal at the time, and she discovered something to fight for.
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Ms. Toe said she knew she was too young and fragile to be a mother, so she had an abortion.
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Ever since, much of the press and public in Morocco have been discussing whether or not she had an abortion.
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To the Editor: For decades I considered myself a murderer because I had an abortion at the age of 25.
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One woman told WNDU that she was raped as a minor and had an abortion at one of Klopfer's clinics.
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"Given a choice, basically every Rohingya woman who got pregnant following a rape would have had an abortion," Biswas says.
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The Girls creator made an Instagram post in response to backlash to her stated wish that she had had an abortion.
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The Girls creator says she was quick to correct the record: At that point, she had never actually had an abortion.
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She came under fire after saying on her her Women of the Hour podcast that she wishes she'd had an abortion.
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So when Scandal's Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) had an abortion in the show's fifth-season winter finale, not everyone was happy.
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I guarantee you any woman who has ever had an abortion will forever remember it for the rest of her life.
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"I had an abortion when I was 18," she said, refusing to give her last name because the practice is illegal.
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The procedure became so common that it is estimated that at least one in four Polish women have had an abortion.
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She makes the good point that we all know women who have had an abortion, whether we know it or not.
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With her mother's help, she had an abortion, a decision she does not regret, even though it involved breaking the law.
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Ms. Derzis, 64, had an abortion in Alabama as a 20-year-old married woman, one year after Roe was decided.
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Gilles also admits she had sex with Belafonte at least twice around the time she got pregnant and had an abortion.
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"She concludes the segment by stating: "Now I can say that I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had.
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"The abortera is here," it said, referring to D.A. and using a derogatory word to describe women who have had an abortion.
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" To help break this taboo, each woman was photographed wearing a shirt with plainly written text that reads "I Had An Abortion.
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" Here, Tara Todras-Whitehill shares with BuzzFeed News a collection of portraits and stories from her powerful series "I Had An Abortion.
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She had an "amazing, loving" childhood, but everything changed when she was 15: The victim of rape, she subsequently had an abortion.
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The prosecution insists Raissouni had an abortion, citing the results of a medical examination in a public statement issued on September 5.
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"I had an abortion when I was young, and it was the best decision I have ever made," Jamil wrote on Twitter.
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"Being a mother, being married, or having had an abortion is a pretty good indication that one is no longer a virgin."
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Her graphic novel will weave together the narratives of three years in her life, including 2010, the year she had an abortion.
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When Vergara's legal team asked to question her and another ex who'd also had an abortion, Loeb refused to reveal their names.
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She also claimed that unless she cooperated, the prosecutors said they would reveal at trial that she had once had an abortion.
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Alongside Simone de Beauvoir and Catherine Deneuve, in order to bring about change Duras admitted publicly to having illegally had an abortion.
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Among those who have already had an abortion, hearing Gabbard's argument was painful, said Alison Dreith, the director of Illinois' Hope Clinic.
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They surveyed women who lived in 21 states a week after they had an abortion and then again every six months thereafter.
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The girl, whose name and nationality were not disclosed and was called "Jane Doe" in legal papers, had an abortion on Oct.
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I mean, it hasn't been easy, but I would hate to think where my life would've gone if I had an abortion.
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In addition to revealing that she had an abortion while filming Glee, the actress also opened up about her past struggles with anorexia.
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You will never blackmail me, because I'll just tell you about me, so if you ask me if I had an abortion, absolutely.
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But whether women are talking about it or not, everyone knows someone, works with someone, cares about someone, who has had an abortion.
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In his book Most Evil, Steve Hodel, Tamar's half brother, writes that Tamar had an abortion as a result of Hodel's sexual assault.
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In his book Most Evil, Steve Hodel, Tamar's half brother, writes that Tamar had an abortion as a result of the sexual assault.
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Only 16% of America's households live below the federal poverty line, but half of all women who had an abortion in 2014 did.
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According to a recent survey conducted by the Polish Public Opinion Research Center (CBOS), one in four Polish women have had an abortion.
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U.S. Olympic sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross has revealed she had an abortion the day before flying to Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games.
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Two of the Victims Gave Birth and One Terminated Her Pregnancy One of the twins had an abortion after her pregnancy was discovered.
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But I always thought that my first panic attack occurred much later, around the time I had an abortion in my early 20s.
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The ACLU said a paper record would make it harder for a woman to keep private that she had an abortion or pregnancy.
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Robin had an abortion; she spoke of it openly later in life as a trauma that led to her involvement with women's reproductive rights.
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Younorng* is unsure how many times she has had an abortion during her 15 years as a sex worker in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh.
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"All of us know someone and love someone who's had an abortion and should be compassionate to that fact and not judgmental," she says.
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You never know if the person you're talking to had an abortion (or if their sister did, or their best friend, or their mom).
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Nassar eventually decided to tell her mom that she had an abortion, but before she could, her mom found discharge papers in the car.
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Through her own inadvertent networking, Lindsay learns that the stylist's job requires travel, which leads to Paul finding out that Lindsay had an abortion.
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But we know that Democrats, Republicans, rich, poor, religious, atheist -- everyone has abortions, and everyone knows and loves someone who has had an abortion.
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But as a woman who has had an abortion herself, Crim said she's terrified of what will happen if the EMW clinic shuts down.
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One marcher said she had had an abortion at the age of 17 but had been opposed to abortion ever since she became religious.
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Dylan, who asked to use a pseudonym for privacy reasons, had an abortion in 2010 and is still angry about the drawn-out process.
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When she was nineteen, she got pregnant after being raped by a friend and had an abortion, an experience she often shares with callers.
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"If I hadn't had that access, I'm not saying I would have had an abortion, but my life would have been different," she muses.
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Gilles previously confirmed she had an abortion, but says the pregnancy was the result of a one-night stand, something she confided in Brown about.
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RELATED: Donald Trump's history of controversy with women Asked if he was ever involved with a woman who had an abortion, Trump declined to answer.
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After a lot of thought and many conversations with those I loved and trusted, I made the best decision for myself and had an abortion.
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Gilles does confirm she had an abortion, but says the pregnancy was the result of a one-night stand, something she confided in Brown about.
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An undocumented teen in federal custody had an abortion last week over the government's objections, but the Department of Justice is still fighting the case.
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She discussed her mother's illegal abortion In July, Nixon explained why reproductive freedom is meaningful to her — her mother had an abortion in the 1960s.
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Pramila Jayapal, one of the most consistently progressive voices in Congress, revealed in a New York Times op-ed Thursday that she had an abortion.
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The result of the pregnancy test wasn't revealed until after the show's five-year time jump, leaving viewers wondering if her character had an abortion.
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In a new memoir, five-time Olympic medalist Sanya Richards-Ross revealed that she had an abortion shortly before competing in the 2008 summer games.
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However, a recent study shows the falsehood behind that claim: 75 percent of women who had an abortion said they were pressured to do so.
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I had had an abortion the previous year, with some reluctance, and everything—every minor defeat, every sign of unfriendliness—still hurt a little extra.
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She had been a young teenager, she would claim, when Moore approached her; he got her pregnant, and she had an abortion at age 15.
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Nearly one in four women in the US will have had an abortion by age 45, according to sexual and reproductive health research group Guttmacher Institute.
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Gillian, 36, (right) had an abortion in 2000 with the man who was to later become her husband and with whom she now has a daughter.
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"I cried a lot," said Vanesa, who asked that her full name be withheld because she did not want others to know she had an abortion.
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It had happened to a few girls in my high school before me, some of whom quickly had an abortion and moved on with their lives.
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In Busy Philipps' upcoming memoir, This Will Only Hurt A Little, she reveals that she had an abortion at just 15 years old, Page Six reports.
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Strangely, there was no significant difference between the two groups of women in how far along they were in their pregnancy when they had an abortion.
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Nearly every American will have a friend, lover, colleague, girlfriend, sister, boss, wife or mother who has had an abortion, even if they never know it.
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal, one of the most consistently progressive voices in Congress, revealed in a New York Times op-ed Thursday that she had an abortion.
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After Philipps started #YouKnowMe a week later, several other celebrities revealed that they, too, had an abortion, from Milla Jovovich to Tess Holliday to Amber Tamblyn.
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A new Trump administration proposal would change the civil rights rules dictating whether providers must care for patients who are transgender or have had an abortion.
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Fox believes that an unborn fetus from Handler's past (Handler has had an abortion) is communicating to the comedian through the her beloved, loyal dog Chunk.
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My five-year relationship with my live-in boyfriend ended like this: I had an abortion, and he had an emotional affair with an Instagram model.
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But there's also things like: whether or not you've had an abortion or a miscarriage; what your proclaimed sexuality is and what your true sexuality is.
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My daughters and my son know I had an abortion just as they know I have a mole on one side of my face, and dimples.
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The dozens of briefs submitted to the Supreme Court included deeply personal stories from women grateful to have had an abortion despite the burdens they encountered.
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Liberty and Joe had an abortion together early in their relationship, stayed together, and eventually had two sons when their lives were better equipped to have children.
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Lloyd also instructed staff to inform a third girl's parents that she'd had an abortion after she'd told officials she feared the disclosure would lead to abuse.
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She portrays Mr Trump's candidacy as the "act" of an entertainer and said his recent pronouncement that women who had an abortion should be punished was "outrageous".
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TV host Busy Philipps on Tuesday night revealed that she had an abortion at age 15 and encouraged other women and girls to share their stories more.
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An Alabama man filed a lawsuit against an abortion clinic after a woman who he says was carrying his unborn child had an abortion despite his wishes.
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One reader told me about her teenage sister, who became pregnant and ultimately had an abortion after two doctors had said that IUDs aren't appropriate for teens.
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" — first implying that he pressured her to have an abortion, then just coming out and saying it: "Because I loved him so much, I had an abortion.
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He resigned after The Journal reported that he'd paid hush money to a former Playboy model who said she'd had an abortion after he got her pregnant.
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Then I had to do a second round of counseling, which included watching these terrible videos of women who said they had an abortion and regretted it.
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"There's probably just not enough room in that center," Lauren, a woman in her late 20s who had an abortion in the New Orleans clinic last year, said.
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Trump set off an even more intense firestorm Wednesday -- and bipartisan anger -- when he suggested women who had an abortion should be punished if the procedure were outlawed.
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"I had an abortion myself before the third month of pregnancy and I have to deal with that up to this day," she told Reuters in an interview.
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The waivers have in some cases involved a range of identities and backgrounds, including gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status and whether a person has had an abortion.
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Tonic's Kate Lowenstein met with Erika—who had an abortion in Colorado 32 weeks into her pregnancy—to discuss why New York's Reproductive Health Act is so important.
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When Captain Susan Struck became pregnant, she decided to have the baby, but Air Force policy meant that she would lose her job unless she had an abortion.
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Sarah -- not her real name -- said she remembers feeling like she needed to lie about her mental health when she had an abortion at the age of 18.
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One in four women will have an abortion by the time they're 45, which means that very likely, you know or love someone who has had an abortion.
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At least one infected woman in Puerto Rico miscarried and another in Washington, D.C., had an abortion after imaging revealed the fetus had a misshapen head and brain.
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John Weaver and his daughter Amanda from Sterling, Virginia, shown below, have been marching since 1996, the year John's fiancé at the time had an abortion unbeknownst to him.
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Read These Stories Next:The Year In Celebrity Drama: 25 Stories We Hated To LoveLena Dunham Regrets Not Having Had An Abortion & I Actually Get ItThe Kardashian Who Cried Wolf?
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Judith Exner Exner, who served as a conduit between JFK and mobster Sam Giancana, famously claimed that she had an abortion after she became pregnant with the President's child.
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A young woman opened up about her decision to have an abortion and before launching into that narrative, Dunham herself said she wished she had an abortion, too. Yikes.
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Dunham has also been criticized for comments including that she wished she "had an abortion" and that she wasn't racist because she was sexually attracted to the rapper Drake.
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The woman, identified by the paper as Jaime T. Phillips, claimed in recent interviews with reporters that she had an abortion after having sex with Mr. Moore in 1992.
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Ms. Raissouni, who strongly denies having had an abortion, says she was forced by the Moroccan authorities to undergo a pelvic examination that aggravated the hemorrhage, provoking renewed bleeding.
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I wanted to make it really clear to her that as much as I was going out and fighting for other women's options, I myself had never had an abortion.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Activists on Monday criticized a six-month prison sentence given to a 15-year-old Indonesian girl who had an abortion after being repeatedly raped by her brother.
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" On Monday, "The Good Place" actress Jameela Jamil wrote on Twitter that she had an abortion when she was young, and "it was the best decision I have ever made.
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But the authors admit that the majority of the surveyed women had an abortion when it was still legal—before the introduction of the so-called Abortion Compromise in 1993.
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It had always felt too politicized, and she wanted to connect with people who'd had the experience and "get grounded in their reality" -- as she's never had an abortion herself.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Essential Consultants then paid $1.6 million in hush money to Playboy model Shera Bechard, who had an abortion after, she alleges, Broidy impregnated her.
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In reality they take agency away from women who've had an abortion or miscarriage, forcing them to treat these events as the equivalent to the death of a family member.
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Beverly Hills, 90210, "Nancy's Choice" (1996) Dr. Sisson calls the late '80s and '90s the "averted abortion decade," because while they considered the idea, characters rarely actually had an abortion.
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For five years after seeking an abortion, women refused one were more likely than those who had an abortion to report not having enough money to cover basic living expenses.
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It would have basically forced women to seek funerary services for a fetus — whether she'd had an abortion or a miscarriage, and no matter how far along the pregnancy was.
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Judy Garland's tumultuous relationship with her lover — and eventual third husband — Sid Luft got off to a troubled start when she became pregnant with his child and secretly had an abortion.
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Felipe Ríos, 38, a father of two who works in security in the presidential palace, said that a family member had an abortion recently after learning her pregnancy endangered her life.
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I knew she'd had an abortion, but for the first time in more than 30 years of friendship, she told me something about herself that she hadn't wanted to share before.
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The Supreme Court hearing prompted Ladyane Souza, a lawyer in Brasília, to publicly disclose that she had an abortion two years ago, even though doing so means she could be prosecuted.
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Some women will regret having had an abortion, just as some will regret having a baby, getting married, dropping out of school, or a thousand other life choices that people make.
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Based on the women's responses, the researchers estimated that about 29 percent of Louisiana women who would have had an abortion if Medicaid covered the procedure instead chose to give birth.
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The legislation includes a measure that would exempt pregnancy resource centers, which counsel against abortions, from a local St. Louis law banning employers from discriminating against those who have had an abortion.
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When in March 2016 President Donald Trump, then a candidate, said "there has to be some form of punishment" for women who had an abortion, pro-life groups distanced themselves from him.
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Recently, she said, scientists reported the case of a European woman who became pregnant while living in Brazil and who had an abortion when it was clear the child would have microcephaly.
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With parenthood not an option in the middle of war, most rebel fighters who got pregnant either had an abortion or handed over their babies to relatives or strangers to look after.
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"I had an abortion when I was 15 years old and I'm telling you this because I'm genuinely really scared for women and girls all over the country," Philipps continued, visibly emotional.
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No one knows exactly what happened to them—only that, six weeks later, the wife had an abortion, just in case, and a year later she gave birth to a baby girl.
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With almost half of women who have had an abortion living below the poverty line, it is no surprise that most claim they did so because they could not afford a baby.
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We also find out, after the fact, that she had an abortion and that the father could have been any number of men, though we never see anyone but Paul and Aaron.
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Most have never told their story publicly before, including Michelle, who had an abortion at 21 weeks when she and her husband learned that their baby had severe facial and brain abnormalities.
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This difference between married and unmarried rates of abortion was most significant in Europe, where 38 per 1,000 married women had an abortion in a year and 16 per 1,000 unmarried women did.
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Her "I Had An Abortion" project asks women who have had abortions to share their stories in hopes that their openness can start a dialogue to help bridge the divide between opposing views.
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Lena Dunham Faces Backlash for Saying She Wishes She'd Had an Abortion The star seems to be in high spirits after a controversial comment about abortion landed her in hot water last week.
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Actress Naya Rivera has a memoir titled Sorry Not Sorry coming out September 12, and today we found out, through an advance excerpt, that Rivera had an abortion back in her Glee days.
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In fact, 1 in 3 American women will have an abortion in her lifetime, and most of us know and love someone who has had an abortion, whether we know it or not.
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Slate reports that Foley said in the same presentation that when female patients came to her with a history of depression or substance abuse, she'd ask them if they'd ever had an abortion.
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The Journal reported the existence of the deal in April, saying it was made because Broidy had an affair with Bechard in 2017 and impregnated her (and that she had an abortion afterward).
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Photo: GettyIreland's Data Protection Commissioner and public health services agency are reportedly investigating how the private data of a patient who had an abortion may have landed in the hands of a harasser.
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One of them basically forces women to seek funerary services for a fetus — no matter if she has had an abortion or a miscarriage, and no matter how far along the pregnancy was.
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The woman told the Post in a series of interviews that she had a sexual relationship with Moore in 1992, became pregnant and had an abortion at Moore's urging when she was 15.
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Many of these women went on to get married and have children, and say they don't regret their abortion Fedor had an abortion after becoming pregnant from a rape during her military service.
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At one point in 2013, she gave testimony at a committee meeting on sexual education about having had an abortion when she was 16, and subsequently received threats, according to local news reports.
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Kim Daniels, the other co-sponsor of the House companion bill and who voted in favor of SB 404, shared that she had an abortion when she was 15 without her mother's consent.
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"She asked me if I understood that we could both be punished by law if I had an abortion, even though she didn't perform that type of procedure to begin with," Cassidy said.
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More than 30% said they had an unwanted first pregnancy, while 24% said they had ever had an abortion in their lifetime -- higher percentages than among women whose first sexual intercourse was voluntary.
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Of the other women, one also had an abortion, two miscarried, two delivered healthy babies, and two are still pregnant, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which reported the nine cases.
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It's a community that comes with a shared understanding of what it's like to have had an abortion, and, for better or worse, there's no other way to obtain that particular set of knowledge.
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First there was U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor's late-2016 ruling that your doctor can indeed refuse to treat you if you've had an abortion (or, just for some bonus discrimination, if you're transgender).
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A 133-year-old housewife in Seoul who had an abortion in 213 says she simply went to the doctor who had delivered her two children and said she did not want the baby.
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Under the proposed law — which has already cleared one parliamentary hurdle — women found to have had an abortion would face five-year prison sentences and any doctors assisting in abortions would also face prison.
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Lena Dunham took to Instagram on Tuesday to apologize for comments she made on her Women of the Hour podcast, where she stated that she hadn't had an abortion, but wished that she had.
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" Such films also offer the promise of forgiveness, Sisson said: "If you are a woman who has had an abortion, you can still be forgiven, and you will still be embraced by the movement.
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Along with instituting stricter regulations for abortion providers, Missouri lawmakers want to make it legal for employers and landlords to discriminate against women who are pregnant, have had an abortion, or use birth control.
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When the researchers conducted comprehensive interviews in Kansas City and Atlanta, however, they largely spoke to women between the ages of 20 and 45 who never had an abortion and held moderate political beliefs.
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However, under another law, a complaint can be filed against a women who has had an abortion, and she can face up to three years in prison or a fine of 000,000 baht ($191.45).
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"He didn't say, 'And that's why we had an abortion law,' but everyone knew what he was talking about," said one attendee, Frank Ski, host of the V-103 morning radio show in Atlanta.
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" But it was her next comment that inspired ire from both near and far-flung corners of the internet: "Now I can say that I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had.
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"I wanted to make it really clear to her that, as much as I was going out and fighting for other women's options, I myself had never had an abortion," Dunham explained on the show.
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Lawyers at CDFA say convictions for such crimes are often based on flimsy medical evidence as it is difficult for doctors to prove if someone has had an abortion, let alone attempts to do so.
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Watch More from VICE: The Obama and Trump administrations have different opinions about whether a health care provider should be able to refuse service to patients because they are transgender or have had an abortion.
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That type of response "is a common, instinctive reaction - it's a form of psychological self-protection," added Shirakawa, who became pregnant because of the rape, which she didn't report to police, and had an abortion.
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The decision was designed, in part, to make it easier for women who have had an abortion to re-enter the Church, and follows the Pope's continued efforts of making the religious institution more inclusive.
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The patient is played by Kristina Nailen, who in real life is an animal-loving pediatric applied behavioral analysis therapist with a background in crisis intervention, and who herself has had an abortion in the past.
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Over the years, the country's abortion law has sparked witch hunts within communities -- if a neighbor, relative or doctor suspects a woman may have had an abortion, they can call the police and have her arrested.
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"Both for me, and for the baby I didn't want, and wasn't ready for, emotionally, psychologically and financially..." I had an abortion when I was young, and it was the best decision I have ever made.
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Flores came forward with her story during a debate over sex education curriculum, revealing she had an abortion as a teenager because she didn't want to end up like her sisters who had become teen mothers.
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She pointed to a declaration she signed along with 343 other women in 1971, written by the feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir, in which she revealed she had had an abortion when it was still illegal.
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The suggestion came after Dowd called Trump a hypocrite during his 2016 campaign for criticizing former President Clinton's marital infidelities and also reportedly asked him if he'd ever been involved with someone who had an abortion.
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One of the women gave birth to a baby with microcephaly, a defect that has been associated with the virus, and at least one other had an abortion after severe brain atrophy was detected in the fetus.
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A few years later as a working single mother, she found herself pregnant again and knew that she didn't want to be like her mother, unable to take care of the child, so she had an abortion.
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"I had an abortion when I was 15 years old and I'm telling you this because I'm genuinely really scared for women and girls all over the country," Philipps said on her show Busy Tonight, visibly emotional.
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Overall, we wanted you to be able to learn more about the issues facing people who are considering getting an abortion, have had an abortion, or simply want to learn more about the option of getting one.
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"I had an abortion when I was 15 years old and I'm telling you this because I'm genuinely really scared for women and girls all over the country," Philipps said on her show Busy Tonight, visibly emotional.
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By age 45, nearly one in four women in the United States will have had an abortion, despite a steep decline in abortion rates since 2008 that experts say is due largely to increased availability of contraceptives.
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" By the decade's end, Bosworth will have fallen in love — more than once — have had an abortion, still illegal in 1958, and days later have flown to Rome, to work alongside Audrey Hepburn in "The Nun's Story.
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One of the women who spoke to fellow protesters, but declined to identify herself, dressed as a handmaid shared that she had had an abortion in the past, and patted her visibly pregnant stomach as she spoke.
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Five-time Olympic medalist Sanya Richards-Ross reveals in a new memoir that she had an abortion just weeks before sprinting in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games — a decision she says cost her more than a gold medal.
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"I would have walked through broken glass to get this abortion, and there was no way I was not going to do it," said Pamela Mason, who had an abortion in 1971 when she was 18 years old.
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" Tuesday's #StopTheBans demonstrations began with hundreds gathered outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Kristin Mink holds her 3-week-old daughter by a sign she brought that says "I exist because my mom had an abortion.
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In the season 4 premiere, we see her tell her father, Jorge (Esai Morales) that she had an abortion — but later in the episode, she tells the other Keating Four members that she wants to have the baby.
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"When I was younger I had an abortion," she wrote on Instagram Thursday morning, along with a photo of the 25 men in Alabama's Congress who made up the vast majority of votes in favor of the bill.
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And this episode wasn't the first time one of Rhimes' characters had an abortion, yet tonight we saw one of our favorite characters make the deeply personal decision that one in three women have made in their lifetime.
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A 2012 survey conducted by Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam indicated 33 percent of women aged between 15-24 who had had an abortion said it was done by an untrained practitioner.
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It's difficult to fathom why anyone would desire to have had an abortion, and thinking wistfully about a missed opportunity comes across as thoughtless, considering the struggle many women go through to exercise their reproductive rights out of necessity.
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Peguero's story exists in the larger context of the Dominican Republic's draconian abortion laws: If Peguero were alive, and found to have had an abortion with Martínez's help, Martínez would have been the one to face a harsher sentence.
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Cohen helped arrange approximately $1.6 million in payments to former Playboy model Shera Bechard to keep quiet about a 2017 affair with Broidy, including the fact that he allegedly impregnated her and she had an abortion as a result.
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READ MORE: Missouri women seeking abortions may have to drive hundreds of miles, twice An undocumented teen in federal custody had an abortion last week over the government's objections, but the Department of Justice is still fighting the case.
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As a whole, the piece is a manifesto on Leonard's desire to see an outsider––someone with AIDS or without air conditioning, a person who's had an abortion but has learned to live without money––as an elected leader.
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In order to get these benefits under the bill, a pregnant person would need to file an affidavit with the Department of Social Services stating that they would have had an abortion if it weren't for the state's ban.
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One in five American women visits a Planned Parenthood center at least once in her lifetime, according to the organization, and the Guttmacher Institute, which researches reproduction issues, says three in 10 American women have had an abortion by age 45.
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In a series of interviews, the woman suspected to be hired by Project Veritas told the Post that she had a sexual relationship with Moore in 1992, became pregnant and had an abortion at Moore's urging when she was 15.
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She traced the origins of the trend in abortion in dancehall music to a popular hit song in the early 1990s entitled "Murder She Wrote" about a woman with a "pretty face and a bad character" who had an abortion.
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They have to attend these women — that are in the majority of… cases, poor women — and they already think that these women it's sure that she has had an abortion and they don't even think that it could be an obstetric emergency.
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Pramila Jayapal on Thursday publicly shared for the first time that she had an abortion more than two decades ago, arguing in a New York Times opinion piece that lawmakers "must commit" to protecting a woman's right to obtain a legal abortion.
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Olivia (Kerry Washington) broke it off with the president and had an abortion — just after Mellie achieved a major victory of her own, standing before the Senate and saving Planned Parenthood with the help of an unlikely ally, Vice President Susan Ross.
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But on the packed train back to London's Gatwick Airport, Watmough was forced to stand for over an hour, bleeding profusely and unable to ask her fellow passengers for a seat because there was no way of explaining she'd just had an abortion.
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There is no limit to the number of stories in recent years of young women denied access to emergency contraception, patients being denied care because they had an abortion, or individuals being turned away from clinics because of their gender/sex identity.
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Madison County Probate Judge Frank Barger ruled that Ryan Magers could name the fetus as a co-plaintiff and sue the clinic and the company that manufactures an abortifacient for "wrongful death" after the young woman he claims he impregnated had an abortion.
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The film hadn't tested well with audiences — at one screening of a rough cut, 39 percent of viewers didn't even realize it had an abortion subplot — and the distributors planned to let it run for a weekend, then release it to home video.
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It seems fair to say that admitting she had an abortion at the time might have tarnished her image, potentially made it hard for her to get hired in the future, and at the very least, put her in the midst of a headline hailstorm.
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In 2016, the actress revealed in her tell-all memoir Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes and Growing Up that she battled anorexia as a teen and had an abortion while she was on Glee — in hopes of letting other women know they are not alone.
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"Sometimes it's really intense; sometimes it brings me back to when I had an abortion, and that's intense, but then you realize you're helping somebody with something they really need," Kayla told BuzzFeed News, speaking from the fundshack before her siblings left on the trip.
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While working on a private school campus, I once had a student tell me she had an abortion because she believed her education was the most important thing to her, and there was no way she could have a baby while studying and taking exams.
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In 2014, half of the women in America who had abortions lived in poverty, and a 2005 Guttmacher Institute study found that approximately one-quarter of women who had an abortion said they did so because they could not afford to have a baby.
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It's hard to imagine a nonfiction teacher who'd let her students spend a class debating whether Jamison should have had an abortion or was bad for doing so, but the assumption here seems to be that this is a perfectly acceptable way to think about essays.
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Among other things, the law gives the attorney general power to enforce abortion laws, requires annual surprise inspections of clinics and exempts pregnancy resource centers, which counsel against abortions, from a local St. Louis law banning employers from discriminating against those who have had an abortion.
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Despite the fact that one-third of all American women will have an abortion at some point in their lives, the anti-abortion movement has created an atmosphere of embarrassment and shame that prevents women from talking about the fact that they have had an abortion.
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"I am truly amazed that the Missouri department of health went along with efforts to shut down the clinic, intimidate patients, and threaten providers, and allegedly and bizarrely track women's menstrual periods on spreadsheets to determine if they had had an abortion," he told the room.
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Sanger said that by allowing the fetal remains law to stay in place, the court was giving a smaller victory to conservatives without having to dive into the broader issue, as the disposal of fetal remains takes place after a woman has already had an abortion.
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When asked if he knew someone personally in his life who had an abortion, Booker said yes, but wouldn't elaborate more, telling BuzzFeed News that having an abortion is "a very personal decision made by women and it should be between women and their doctors and their loved ones."
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Over the course of two weeks, a woman named Jaime Phillips met for several interviews with the Washington Post during which she falsely alleged that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore had a sexual relationship with her in 1992 and that she had an abortion at 15, the Post reports.
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Lucía's case illustrates the "conviction that exists within the judicial system that the person who aborts is a criminal," said Ana Correa, who wrote a book about Belén, a 27-year-old who was sentenced to eight years in prison after a court found she had had an abortion.
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Having had an abortion in America puts you in a club with all the other women who have been through it: the ones who had a hard time, the ones who didn't struggle at all, the ones who regret the choice they made, the ones who never gave it another thought.
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I'm speaking from experience here — though I should mention that just because you haven't had an abortion doesn't mean you can't empathize with the struggle, or the difficulty, or the pure as fuck fury over how hard women have to fight to retain control over their own bodies and futures.
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Under the bill, the fetus or "unborn human," as defined in the law, would be considered a person under the state criminal homicide statutes, which means that abortion providers or people who have had an abortion could be charged with murder — a crime that's punishable by death in the state.
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Although some women may indeed regret having had an abortion and experience depression and low self-esteem, shouldn't we ask how many women with unanticipated pregnancies who did not have abortions find themselves with regret, depression and low self-esteem, even when loving their children or giving them up for adoption?
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Bozell's remarks come a day after the Post revealed that O'Keefe's Project Veritas had sent a woman to the newspaper falsely claiming that Moore, the GOP candidate in the Alabama Senate special election, had impregnated her as a teenager and that she had an abortion, at Moore's urging, as a result.
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Dawn Laguens: There's no question on Roe As a mother of three daughters and one of the one-in-four women in this country, according to the Guttmacher Institute, who have had an abortion, I know what is on the line if Judge Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court.
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I had had an abortion, the psychological aftermath of which was not as simple as I thought it would be, and when I got home, sleeping off the anesthesia, I dreamed of a large cinder, a life that had been snuffed out before it had the opportunity to happen, shooting through space.
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Yesterday, the St. Louis Dispatch reports, the House passed a comprehensive proposal that not only challenges a local ordinance that makes it illegal for employers and landlords to discriminate against women who have had an abortion or used contraception, but also bans abortion clinics from asking ambulances to avoid using sirens or flashing lights.
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Sackin says that while public support for abortion rights is at its highest rate in two decades — 57 percent of Americans say it should be legal in all situations, according to Pew Research polling, and one in four women have had an abortion in their lifetime — Trump has made explicit his desire to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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It reminds people of how universal the experience of abortion is for many women (including women who are already mothers or who later go on to become mothers), and that you're probably wrong if you think you don't know a woman who has had an abortion — or if you think that abortion rights are secure in 21st-century America.
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But, Elizabeth said, it's also not enough to advocate for abortion rights just by citing extreme cases like hers: Another thing I want to say is that yes, I had this very particular, horrible situation—but if I had had an abortion at 20 weeks just because I didn't feel ready, that should be okay, too.
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"I'm angry mostly at the false rhetoric that's out there that defines or is is making an attempt to define what situations like ours entailed," said group founder Trinity, who had an abortion at 21 weeks, after she and her husband were told their baby lacked a part of her brain stem and had skeletal dysplasia.
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The book is full of light and fun memories from an actress who got her start in Hollywood well before kindergarten, but Rivera also does not shy away from serious subjects – including the revelations that she battled anorexia as a teen and had an abortion she got while on Glee – in hopes of letting other women know they are not alone.
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I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn't the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying.
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"A lot of what's talked about are women who have unwanted pregnancies, but there are so many women who have wanted pregnancies — desperately wanted pregnancies, that have to make really hard decisions," said Erika, who had an abortion at 22 weeks after she and her husband learned their baby had hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid on the brain that can cause brain damage.
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Earlier this year, Instagram was accused of censoring the content of lesbian artist Zoe Leonard, who authored the infamous 1992 text that begins with "I want a dyke for president…I want someone with no health insurance…I want a president that had an abortion at 16…" An account that shares artifacts of LGBT history told Into that their post sharing the text, which became more widely known outside of activist circles in 2016, was flagged and removed.
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When we do pursue what we crave, the consequences of saying so out loud can be stark: pity the poor woman foolish enough to say that she doesn't want children because she'd rather spend her money traveling the world, or had an abortion because she just did not want a baby, or admits she took the job because she craved power, or rejects marrying the nice guy because she would rather date and sleep with whomever she pleases.
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