Our Stories
The stories of different people in Missouri explaining their experience with abortion or why they find it important in our state.
If you are interested in telling us your story email us at prochoicedustin@gmail.com you can choose to either upload your story anonymously, with your name and picture, or just your name. That email is exclusively for stories and does not respond to questions about upcoming events.
chloe
“Personally, I don’t care whether you agree with abortions or not. I don’t care if you believe life at conception or not. What I care about is whether or not you force your belief on other people. How it will soon be effecting innocent lives of mothers who want to survive a pregnancy, or terminate a pregnancy because the quality of life the fetus will soon have will be absolutely detrimental and a life full of medical issues. It’s a choice. It’s a choice that all persons who have a uterus should make on their own. This choice shouldn’t be put in the hands of supreme court justices who are aged out and who do not have a uterus of their own. This is a war on those who have a uterus and the right to choice should be protected. “
Shannon Dunbar
“I think it’s important because I’ve had to make the choice to abort on medical reasons. If I would’ve carried my kidneys wouldn’t have made it and I have children and a husband who needs me here. I used to be pro life before having children. After experiencing the hardships of being a parent and all the complications I went through, I think it should be a choice. I will always think it’s a choice. And it’s a choice I want my three daughters to have. My daughters are my light but if something happened to them and they aren’t ready to be a parent there needs to be a choice. Being a parent is hard and stressful and expensive. It is important to me because while I love being a mother, I know it isn’t for everyone. So the choice is necessary.”
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“I suffer from endometriosis which causes a lot of complications including miscarriages and high risk pregnancy. I've already gone through a miscarriage and it should be a protected right that I get the proper care for a health condition out of my control. Women's rights are human rights, plain and simple”
Lily Davis
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“I think it’s important because I have made mistakes and I know almost all women have. I want kids but right now I couldn’t provide a stable, safe environment for that kid. I also couldn’t stand putting another kid in foster care and knowing my child is in the world without me.”
Asked to be anonymous
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“I very much think abortion is important because not everyone can carry a child and survive and if they need to save themselves. they should have that option. especially with how this world is now!! it’s extremely fucked up to bring a child into this world with the school shootings, governmental problems that grow everyday and just everything wrong with our fucked up country in general. I hate the mfs who set us all up for failure”
Lily C.
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“Abortion rights are important to me because I am at risk for an ectopic pregnancy each time I have sex. The only way to help me if I became pregnant, would be an abortion. I shouldn’t have to give up my pleasure for my life.”
Abigail K.
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“If a woman cannot be forced to donate blood to save the life of another, then she should not be forced to incubate life. It is absurd there is more focus on the bodily rights of an unborn fetus than a woman who has already been alive, formed relationships, contributed to society, is a conscious human. Not only that, but abortions are health care. Ectopic pregnancies; a zero percent survival chance for the fetus after it is born if the mother doesn’t die first. It’s awful, but it’s true. Abortion saves the mother from suffering and possible deadly side effects. Don’t take away women rights to health care, and don’t you dare say it’s not MY choice.”
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