I consider myself pro-life for myself and I am not happy that 'social' abortion is so prolific but I would not wish it to be outlawed. With that in mind, I was thinking about the course that my life has taken and whether the choices I have made would be different if the circumstances had been different.


For example, I had an unplanned pregnancy when I was 24 but I was engaged to my partner of 4 years and we were living together and very much in love. I did not even consider abortion. We got married and are very happy and content with our little family.


However, I was seeing a man before I met my husband who was quite abusive to me but I was young and stupid and thought he would love me one day. The only birth control we were using was condoms. Fortunately, that method never failed us but what if it had? I was in my final year of university with no job, no money and a boyfriend who would have scarpered the minute he found out, I have no doubt about that. If I am truly honest with myself, I would have had to have considered abortion very seriously. I don't know if I would have gone through with it but a part of me thinks I would have...And that makes me feel very sad

i know that if I had had an abortion then it would weigh on my mind for the rest of my life because of my beliefs that I would have killed a human being.


The point I am trying to make is that I have been thinking very carefully about this subject and I think it's sometimes too easy to judge the women who have abortions and thnk less of them. It's easy to be judgemental when you have not been in their position.


I still don't like abortion but I am trying to better understand the women who do it.