The same woman can wake up one morning with regret, the next with relief—most have feelings too knotty for a picket sign. “There’s no room,” one woman told us, “to talk about being unsure.”
Though its author is clearly pro-choice, this New York Magazine piece about abortion presents the experiences of twenty-six women without agenda or artifice.
In their own words, American women from a variety of backgrounds and geographical locations explain the incredible range of emotions they’ve felt—from relief to guilt to resentment to peace—about pregnancies they have and haven’t brought to term.
