# @shoutyourabortion on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CH1Tr8sJvNx
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34221217-shoutyourabortion-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-11-21T00:37:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Shout Your Abortion (@shoutyourabortion) — https://gondola.cc/shoutyourabortion

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“…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 friend said ‘she should have aborted herself like she aborted that fetus.’

I have not been able to get those words out of my head almost a decade later. Even though I know I made the right choice about my health, I feel so guilty because the society around me made me feel ashamed for what I had done. I would have been damned if I had a child so young and I was damned because I chose not to have a child. I feel scared about what it will be like when I am ready to have a child, I don’t know yet if it will be easy or hard. I am scared that if it is hard I will punish myself even more with this guilt I feel.

What I want is for abortion to not be something that laws need to be made to make it legal, but for it to just be a health care option for those who need it. It should not be something for political debate, it should just be a health right. Maybe then society will be less judgmental of those who need to access abortions.” ⚡️💕 Visit the URL on the graphic to read the full story at our website. #shoutyourabortion #abortion #proabortion #abortolegal #aborcja

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