“…It is those who I believed closest to me who made my experience difficult and have left me long term guilt and embarrassment. In 2011 I had an abortion after becoming pregnant with my then boyfriend. I chose this as I felt I was too young and unable to care for a child. I had this conversation with my boyfriend and it was a choice we made together, privately. My mother has always been supportive and helped me through the entire process. At the time, I was an elite rower and the procedure would require time off training. …A week later I went back to training feeling normal again. What I did not know is that, like as if we were in some drama/reality series, my boyfriend, also a rower, had told every single person in the rowing community behind my back that I had, had an abortion. Not one of my friends came to tell me, or ask me how I was. I was eventually told about this by a young male coach. I also was shown screenshots of messages between my boyfriend and his friend. Where his fr...