Pills By Mail

Sexual and reproductive health rights were something that I volunteered my time and professional training to long before it affected me. I have a masters level education and grew up in a rural area where any health care, let alone thorough and accurate reproductive health care, was difficult to access. So SRH advocacy and education felt like an important way for me to merge my lived experience and education to give back.

Fast forward a few years after grad school, and I got pregnant (despite being on the pill!) during my period. Yes, it can happen! I immediately knew it wasn’t the right time or space in my life for this and ordered by mail.

My abortion was uncomfortable, but I had a supportive network that connected me with resources for what to expect, and it felt very much like a bad period combined with the flu. Within 24 hours, I was so relieved that the medication abortion had been effective and was complete.

Now I am pregnant at a time when I’m ready and excited. There is so much misinformation and often dramatization around what abortions are that I wanted to share my rather boring story, especially as it ends in a completely fertile and healthy state where I was later ready to conceive on my own terms and timeline. In fact, we didn’t even have to “try”! I’m so glad that choice was possible for me, and I will never stop fighting for every womxn to have the same autonomy over their body.

This story was shared from our partners at Shout Your Abortion.