# @shoutyourabortion on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CDg74vGJRTN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34221421-shoutyourabortion-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-08-05T16:38:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Shout Your Abortion (@shoutyourabortion) — https://gondola.cc/shoutyourabortion

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💛PSA - if you are in a similar position to this writer & live in the US, there are orgs to help you! Please visit abortionfunds to find help. 💛

“…I had no money, I stole from my loved ones to survive and I had no help. My parents didn’t support what I wanted to do. My mom wanted a grandchild so bad that what I wanted was ignored and she pretended it wasn’t happening. My dad still doesn’t know and could never accept it but I lied to him about needing surgery to get some money for the procedure, not my proudest moment but I was desperate. I knew what I wanted and I knew it was the only way for me to ever get out.
I had to lie to so many people, my close friends, to get the money to able to afford it and I still think about that to this day and I am sorry to those people but I also need to thank you, thank you for saving me without even knowing. There was one person, a friend’s mom, I still feel to this day that she saved me. She supported my decision and gave me the rest of the money that I couldn’t come up with and told me I was doing the right thing.

The details of that day are like flashes in a dream. My mom wouldn’t drive me, she arranged for one of my cousins to drive me… who I barely knew but again I was desperate. It was a deafeningly silent hour drive. It all happened too fast but it felt like a lifetime. I remember sitting and waiting, and being questioned, and the anesthesia being administered and waking up and feeling relief but also sick and the sickness from a bad reaction and the blur that was the ride home to a place where I couldn’t talk to anyone and the constant reminder that my mom gives to me this day of how old said child would be and thinks it’s ok… I have since shouted my abortion and I am now happily married and we just had our first baby. And I am extremely grateful to be able to have made this decision for myself, as difficult as it was. I will tell my daughter about my abortion one day so that she never has to hide anything from me.” 💛 #shoutyourabortion #proabortion #abortionfunds #broke #humanrights #help

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help, shoutyourabortion, proabortion, broke, abortionfunds, humanrights

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