Thankfully, the abortion fund helped with the cost. A friend of my mom’s drove me the 2½ hours. And the Ohio location was picked because it’s closer to me. She was giving me information and trying to help me with the whole process. I started talking to a lady that worked for them and kind of talked to her daily. I got on the internet one day and found an abortion fund. I didn’t feel like I could carry out a pregnancy and give birth to a child and then just hand them away. To think about bringing along another one, an infant at that? I had someone mention adoption to me and give me information about it.

I’m so busy every day trying to make sure that my kids are taken care of and have everything that they need. I kept telling myself, There’s no way that you can do this. All this time, I was being really careful. I went to the doctor and they confirmed it. When it came out positive, I took three more. I’m going to take this pregnancy test to rule that out. And I thought, I’ve been saying for two weeks I’ve got a horrible stomach virus it’s not going away. I mean, so sick that I couldn’t even get off the couch. I had been on birth control ever since my last one was born 2½ years ago and hadn’t had any problems. And I know that financially, and with work and school, there’s absolutely no way that I could have another child, and I wouldn’t have any help to do it. It’s just me by myself with my kids, and it’s been really, really hard. I’ve grown up my whole life with my mom and my grandmother, and I lost them in the past seven years. ‘I hadn’t missed my birth control’ Renee Traveled from Kentucky, which has implemented a near-total abortion ban, to Ohio for a surgical abortion

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