“I’m going through my fourth abortion as I type this. I’ve been reading these stories for an hour and have decided to tell mine. I live in a red state and with the war on women’s health happening I have told no one except my partner and a close friend. I grew up in a Christian family, I protested abortions when I was too young to even know what abortion was. My first abortion was at 18, I was with my high school sweetheart and even though we never talked about it. I know he had grown up with the same Christian beliefs as my family. I felt forced keep it a secret. I figured if he knew, and wanted to keep it I wouldn’t have the strength to say no. That was a wayyy bigger decision than to just keep it a secret and go ahead with the abortion. So that’s what I did. It was the best decision I could have made for myself, because not even 2 months later he told me he wasn’t ready to settle down, that he wanted to party and be single. To this day he doesn’t know how much I went through, or th...