“…I was 23 the next time I fell pregnant, and I’m now 27 and have had a total of seven abortions. All of my abortions have been medical, however the law changed and medical abortions are now fine to be done at home, and my experiences have been so much less traumatic and much less painful than my first abortion when managing them at home. I’m not proud of it, but I’m not certainly NOT ASHAMED. I’m been refused contraception from my GP due to underlying health issues, and refused sterilisation because I’m too young and apparently ‘will change my mind on not wanting children.’ That’s a whole separate issue. But I’m not trying to justify my abortions. I see abortion as a perfectly legitimate medical procedure to remove a tiny cluster of cells from your body, similar to getting your appendix out, or a cyst removed. I’m a huge advocate for abortions. The city I live in is a popular location for people from Northern Ireland (where abortion is illegal) to fly over cheaply to get an abortio...