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The Abortion I Didn’t Have: I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/magazine/abortion-parent-mother-child.html

I couldn’t consider abortion or adoption, but the weird thing is I also couldn’t consider having a baby. I never decided; I never chose. Somewhere in there it became more likely that I was having a baby, but that didn’t make it any more real to me.

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