Many Voices
- Many Choices
Telling
our personal stories heals us.
Accidental or
unintended pregnancy happens to millions of women in the world each year. Because
we are fertile for a large part of our lives, and because we are sexual beings,
pregnancies happen. It is natural.
It is natural to have
strong feelings about being accidentally pregnant. When women tell their stories out loud, they have a healing experience. Keeping your emotions
all bottled up can be harmful to human's emotional and physical well-being.
Telling the truth about
women’s lives changes the world.
When women tell each other about our lives, we discover common themes.
We learn that our own individual experiences of alienation, invisibility, discrimination, lack of recognition, and family pressures are experienced by other women. Feminism is born by telling our stories and by listening to each other.
As a result, women take on the challenge of improving the world for other women. They set up rape crisis shelters
and services to assist battered women with safe houses and legal assistance. Women worked for equal education for boys
and girls -- and to rid textbooks and career counselors of sexist stereotypes.
Women
filed lawsuits and gained legal rights. Women became ordained ministers, entered every field of sports, and broke barriers
in arts, entertainment, medicine, law, politics, and literally every field of endeavor. Women
set priorities of peace, justice, equality, diversity, and freedom for all.
Sharing
our personal experience connects women.
Anti-abortion extremists have created a backlash against women. Women who have had abortions feel they cannot tell anyone -- because they don’t
know who they can trust. But, when women do tell their friends
and family, we frequently discover we are not alone. Oftentimes,
our friends and family have also faced the desperation of an accidental pregnancy and they understand the importance of access to safe abortion.
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You are not alone! This website has collected over 500 personal stories from our readers. Each page below contains a collection of stories.
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