It was 20 years ago - I was 29 and it was an accident. The circumstances aren't important, because a different who or where or when would not have led to a different decision.

Many think that abortion is a service mostly used by young, unwed women to hide from their parents the fact that they have had sex.

I was 20 and in an on and off relationship for 4 years. At the time my drug addicted mother kicked me out and I just got my first apartment in a bad area of a town I was new to, far away from the place i grew up.

My name is Heather. I've had 3 abortions. I had them at ages 21, 27 and 35. The reason why? I didn't want children, didn't want to go thru pregnancy and delivery. Putting a child up for adoption was simply not something I was willing to do. It was as simple as that.

I was 19 years old and had just started casually dating a guy. He was a nice guy, but he worked with me at my part-time job and I definitely wasn't interested in anything serious. I was going to college and he was content with his lack of ambition. I was taking the Pill at the time, but my class schedule and work schedule made it difficult to take it at the exact same time each day.

Forty years ago I had an abortion when I was 19. It was December 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade.