I was 22 when I needed my abortion. It was four years ago and I had only had my bar put in six months earlier. I was told by my doctor that it would be almost impossible to fall pregnant with it in, less than a 1% chance. The guy who I’d slept with had recently ended things with me although we had only been together a couple of months. I called him up and told him that I was pregnant. He told me that he wasn’t ready to be a father. He wasn’t angry at me, we’d done everything right and used two different kinds of protection (the bar and a condom), but he was angry at the situation – he felt so powerless he told me. I felt the exact same way – what was I supposed to do? My family lived in Darwin and I was over here studying in Brisbane, a human services degree, my ex too. He wasn’t ready to be a father and I was nowhere near read to be a mother. I called up a pregnancy support system who told me that I should think about keeping the baby or even adopting it out, a termination was never even brought up. They were rude and awful when it was clear that I wasn’t on the same page as them.
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