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Special Report on Abortion & Substance Abuse
Abortion and Substance Abuse:
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Jill's Story
Note: The following testimony is excerpted from the book
Giving Sorrow Words: Women's Stories of Grief After Abortion by Melinda Tankard Reist. My boyfriend and I had been going steady for over 12 months, sure we were going to wait until we got married. I was 16 and a virgin, but we saw each other every day and one time the petting went to the point of no return. I had just had an appendix operation and I thought that was why my period was late. Think again: sure enough, I was pregnant. By three months my pregnancy was starting to show. My boyfriend and I were really happy about it and I bought my first maternity dress. One Sunday night, instead of going to church, we decided to tell my parents. Their reaction took me totally by surprise. They told my boyfriend, whom they never liked anyway, to get out. Their only words to me were, "You are having an abortion"
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