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Every day, women make very deep and personal decisions. These choices make up the stories of our lives. Many women are able to make their decisions free from coercive policies or burdensome restrictions; however, this freedom is all but unavailable to some women and is systematically being attacked at all levels of government.
- Women in some states must pay more than they can afford for their prescription birth control because their insurance plan refuses to cover it.
- Young people risk facing an unintended pregnancy or contracting a sexually transmitted disease as a result of misinformation taught in "abstinence-only" programs in their school.
- Sexual assault survivors are routinely denied a chance to prevent an unintended pregnancy because the hospital emergency room they visit refuses to provide them emergency contraception (the "morning-after" pill).
Share Your Story
NARAL Pro-Choice America invites you to share your story or thoughts about choice. Maybe you had a poignant experience with friends at your first pro-choice march or rally, a memorable conversation with a close female relative about a woman’s right to privacy, or encountered difficulties firsthand when trying to access abortion care or other reproductive-health service where you live. Unless you specify otherwise, your name and contact information will always be kept completely confidential. Click here to share your story.
Read Women's Stories
Every day we receive stories from women and men who tell us their personal experiences and feelings about the right to choose. Here are just a few we have received:
Chantel, 28
I remember when I was a little girl at age 10 an anti-abortion woman lived next door. I used to play in her yard with the other neighborhood children every day.
Donna, 55
I used to hold anti-abortion beliefs.
Molly, 54
When I graduated from college in 1975, I worked in a Planned Parenthood for 3 years. It was fantastic to work in a facility which provided safe medical procedures for women.
Julie, 22
The movie If These Walls Could Talk really reinforced my preexisting belief that the decision to have an abortion (or decision not to have an abortion) is a woman's CHOICE.
Mark, 62
In the late sixties I was in medical school in Maryland which had just passed a law allowing abortions for state residents.
Corinne, 31
Even as a teenager, I knew a woman's right to choose when and if to have children was important.
Lisa, 47
I grew up in a small town in California and was the first in my family to go to college.
Devina, old
I am of the age when we had homes for unwed mothers, where children as young as 12 were sent to have babies.
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