Planned Parenthood Saved Me

Planned Parenthood is dedicated to women's health. We're posting stories from women whose lives were saved or changed because they had access to affordable healthcare like cancer screenings through Planned Parenthood.

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Pinkwash *this.*

I was struggling through college socially, academically, and emotionally and wanted more than anything to be a good student with a nice boyfriend and a bright future. When suspected I was pregnant, it confirmed for me my complete inability to achieve any of those things. But I had a friend who believed in me more than I believed in myself and she she told me to call my parents and to make an appointment at Planned Parenthood. When the nurse told me I could get an abortion there I could hardly believe I was being given this chance. To have a place, on an beautiful street, a bus ride away from my apartment, that I could afford that could do a safe abortion was a gift- only later did I realize it was a right. I am grateful to Planned Parenthood Metropolitan Washington for providing my abortion- though I hope someday what they do will just be called “health care”

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