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I was going to answer anonymously because I’m sure some who see this are going to be confused. Why is a man talking about pregnancy and abortion as if he knows what it’s like? Well because I have a uterus and have given birth. I also thought about being anonymous to protect myself in general. I decided against it. So with that out of the way, my story.I was the poster child for reasons why women are generally accepted to be allowed to have abortions.When I was 19 I became pregnant. It was too soon, I was too young, I had no real job prospects, could barely take care of myself. The father wasn’t involved in the least and was heavily into drug use. We were using condoms, but one of them broke and now here we were with me pregnant and him looking for a way out. I didn’t have an abortion. My son was adopted and is now a happy and healthy 18 year old man on the other side of the country.When I was in my mid twenties, I was in an abusive relationship. This relationship resulted in two children that were not born of consensual sex. The consent stopped within a couple of months, but by the time the beatings and the rape started I was too mentally and emotionally broken down to recognize it. My children were born from rape and abuse, but I didn’t have an abortion.I became pregnant with my older daughter while using the pill and condoms. Both failed. When I conceived my youngest, I was using the pill and an IUD. Both failed. My children were born despite my attempts to prevent pregnancy, but I still didn’t have an abortion.When I went in for the first appointment with my youngest child, my doctor was shocked and horrified that I’d become pregnant with an IUD in place. It was something he hadn’t seen before in his own practice, or at least not that he’d seen where the IUD hadn’t fallen out or gotten dislodged. And this wasn’t a young doctor, he was the doctor that delivered me. He did an ultrasound to check the placement of the IUD. Nope, it was in the right spot. He couldn’t find an embryo though. This meant one of three things. Either I’d already had a miscarriage, the embryo was ectopic, or it was in an odd position he couldn’t see. I remember him sitting down with me and having a long conversation about ectopic pregnancy and abortion. We didn’t have much time to decide. Ectopic pregnancies are never viable he said. I remember him pulling out all the documentation, and I could tell this was a conversation he’d had before. Having to tell pregnant women that not only would their pregnancy not survive, but that if something wasn’t done quickly, they would die as well. I thought of my older daughter at home, at the time 18 months old, and my abusive partner. I thought of her having to grow up without me to protect her. He suggested that we have a second ultrasound to look for the embryo just in case. I agreed to the abortion on the condition that she couldn’t be found in the second ultrasound or that she was found to be ectopic. We agreed. I left his office and felt numb.The next day, I had the second ultrasound. Almost immediately on the screen was a circle of black with a moving figure the shape of a kidney bean in the middle. I was pregnant. She wasn’t ectopic. All was well. I called my doctor as soon as I got home, canceled the abortion and completely the pregnancy. It was hard. I lost 65 lbs from the first appointment to her birth. I left my abusive ex and bounced from relative to relative heavily pregnant with a toddler in tow. I had minimal income, no childcare, and no real options available. I left with a basket of laundry, my child, my pregnant belly, and my dog. I still didn’t have an abortion.Now if you’ve gotten this far I’d be willing to bet you think I’m pro life. All these perfect storms that most people would recognize as being a situation where a woman should be allowed to abort. I did all the right things, my birth control failed, I was raped, I was young, my life was at risk, and look at me go, I didn’t consider killing my children to be an option. Except that I did. In all three of my pregnancies abortion was considered. In all three the fathers asked me to have one. In all three I thought about it long and hard. And in all three, I found that I was in the privileged situation where it wasn’t actually necessary. Sure it wasn’t easy, but it also wasn’t impossible. I didn’t have abortions in any of my pregnancies because I didn’t feel that I had to.Here’s the thing though. I’m aggressively pro-choice. You read that right. My tubes are currently tied but if I were to become pregnant again? You can bet your ass I’d have an abortion, and I wouldn’t think twice about it. Why? My first pregnancy left me with separated abdominal muscles that have never healed. I have no strength in my upper abdominals. My second pregnancy ruptured a disk in my spine that left me with near crippling back and leg pain that still kicks up on a routine basis 13 years later. My third pregnancy left me with an 8cm by 6cm hernia in my lower abdomen. My body is literally falling apart as a result of my pregnancies. If I were to become pregnant again and attempt to carry to term, there’s a high likelihood that neither I nor the pregnancy would survive to term because of my medical conditions. And that’s not even taking into account my transition. I plan a full hysterectomy as soon as possible as part of that process just because my history with birth control isn’t the best and I don’t trust my own body to stop being an obnoxious, sabotaging, asshole.“But Brandon!”, you might say, “That’s a different situation! That’s one of those allowed instances! Surely you can’t support abortion in other cases.” And that’s where you’d be wrong. I support abortion in all cases where a pregnant woman and her doctor feel that it’s the right decision for her. I feel this way because yes, I made the decision to give birth to all three of my children when I didn’t have to. When abortion would have been considered acceptable under all but the strictest of moral arguments. But giving birth in all three of those cases was my choice, no matter how hard it was, no matter the dysphoria it caused me that wanted to rip off my own skin more often than not for nine months straight. I chose to do it anyway. Who am I to take that choice away from someone else? Who am I to tell a woman, even in the same circumstances I was in at the time, “You don’t get to make this choice for yourself because I didn’t choose that option.” Who am I to dictate someone else’s life for them? More than that, I made the choices at the time knowing my own strength, my own capabilities, my own privileges, and my own resources. These are not going to be the same for every pregnant woman. Even if the reason is as simple and seemingly superficial as “I don’t want to”, who am I to tell that woman that no, she must be forced against her will because it’s what I have chosen in the past? Who is any of us to tell that to a stranger? Particularly when we have no connection to her or her pregnancy, no intention to support her before, during, or after the birth? No intention of doing anything for the child we’re forcing her to have? And don’t tell me “Well welfare”, or “well charity”. No. You don’t get to take the easy way out any more than I allowed myself to take the easy route. If you want to tell a woman, any woman, that she cannot control her own body, then it becomes your responsibility to care for that woman and that child. You become responsible for feeding it, diapering it, comforting it at three am so that woman you forced to have it can get some sleep. You pay the bills she can’t cover because she’s unable to work while on bedrest, giving birth, or recovering. You pay for the scholarship she loses because she has to drop her college courses to have that child. You take her into your home when her conservative parents call her a whore and kick her out of their home with no where to go. You donate your own organs when hers shut down because her body can’t safely handle the pregnancy. And then you do it for every single other woman who can’t access an abortion because of your decision that she can’t make that choice for herself. Can’t do that? It’s too much? Then don’t vote for policies and lawmakers who would remove that right to choose. It’s as simple as that.EDIT: I just wanted to say WOW and thank you to all the views, upvotes, shares, and support! I was a little hesitant when I thought about posting this because it goes into a lot of painful parts of my life, but the support I’ve received has made it worth it. I had no idea my story and this answer was going to resonate with so many people, and I’m humbled by the kind words I’ve seen in the comments and shares.

Yes, I believe they are aware and here’s why.When arguing about Planned Parenthood they say they don’t like it because they do abortions and then sell the tissue. Very rarely do I find a Republican who says that they don’t want their tax money to go towards abortions.That argument holds no water since some abortions are done at some hospitals, they call them DNC’s, but they either don’t know or are not willing to give up their medical provider.

Planned Parenthood, according to their 2017–2018 report performed 332,757 abortions, up from approximately 328,000 in the prior year.Planned Parenthood conveniently uses their “number of services” as the denominator to downplay the percentage of abortions performed compared to other, less controversial services they performed. Planned Parenthood counts their services as 9.7 million. This includes pregnancy tests, which are given to women who come in for an abortion, STI tests, also given to women who come in for abortions, and contraception, also given to women who come in for an abortion. Planned Parenthood bundles services so it should be no surprise that their number of total patients is less than 1/4 of their total number of “services.” Using 9.7 million as the denominator, Planned Parenthood touts that abortion only accounts for 3.4% of all services performed. If Planned Parenthood instead used their total number of patients as the denominator, 2.4 million, this would control for the services that are bundled with abortion and the number of abortions as a percentage of all patients served jumps to 14%.

Yes, he lied. He's a politician. That's what they do! All the time.  On any subject.

The question is being asked:When will Republicans defund Planned Parenthood? I am pro life and don’t want my tax money going to abortion clinics like Planned ParenthoodI am right there with you on this one. I can't stand them, either. There are two main arguments I've heard before in favor of that organization, and they're just so weak and tired:Public funding doesn't actually go toward any abortions. No, but it goes toward keeping the doors open for the place that performs them. If I pay the rent and utilities for an unrepentant addict, I am not buying his drugs; but I sure as heck am freeing up the rest of his funds to go buy them, aren't I?97% of what they do is perform valuable health services, mostly for women. That's fantastic, but it's that other 3% that is pretty horrifying. By all accounts, Ted Bundy was a pretty pleasant person 97% of the time, too, but that's not why he was arrested.So I get it. The problem is, Republicans historically have not been very good at seeing the big picture when it comes to this type of thing. They would defund Planned Parenthood, but then they wouldn't replace them with anything. That's where they get browbeaten —they're told they are monsters if they take away all these wonderful things that Planned Parenthood offers, Truthfully, I don't think the idea of replacing Planned Parenthood has crossed any Republican's mind; if it did, they have no idea what to replace them with. Using my example above, if Ted Bundy is the only doctor in a small town, it's not enough to just put him in jail; you now have to find another doctor to replace him. Otherwise, you're going to have some sick citizens in very short order.My solution is simple: fully fund state and county health agencies to do all the good things that Planned Parenthood has been doing, only without the abortions. It even fits with the whole Republican mindset of leaving the administration of such things to the states. I don't know the cost, but even if it's triple or quadruple what we give Planned Parenthood, so that additional clinics can be built and more services offered, it would still be cheap because we would be saving lives.I'm not a Republican, so they won't listen to me. But if you are, I implore you to start pushing for this. We need to be less partisan, and work on ideas that are good ideas, regardless of who thinks of them.(Going anonymous because the hate follows you EVERYWHERE.}

For political points.Planned Parenthood is mainly for reproductive health care. Only a small portion of their work consists of abortions, and these abortions are not paid with by money from the state.But last year a smear campaign was being held by a anti-abortion group. They filmed a meeting with a representative of PP and heavily edited their material so that it looked like a number of things:People get rich from abortionsAbortions are done carelesslySometimes fetuses are still alive after the abortionBabies are aborted in such a way that their parts can be sold for profitThis is the only thing they do at PP.None of these things were actually true and eventually the makers had to admit that it was heavily edited. Unfortunately many people, once they believe one story, are not inclined to believe the detraction of that story. And to get these people in their camp, Republicans have gone full retard and are defunding PP through the whole country. Just to get votes.Disgusting.

The essential hEvalth care services Planned Parenthood provides, like: STD testing and treatment, birth control, well-woman exams, cancer screening and prevention, abortion, hormone therapy, infertility services, and general hEvalth care.

You can get the abortion pill from a doctor, nurse, hEvalth clinic, or Planned Parenthood hEvalth center. You may be able to get the abortion pill for free or low cost.

If applying for CARE for the first time, you will need to bring in both proof of citizenship and a photo ID (passport or a driver's license and birth certificate) and your Social Security number. If you are 19 or younger, you do not need to have a social security number or passport.

The fairest way for Planned Parenthood to provide services under Title X is to ask all potential patients seeking hEvalth care to provide proof of their income (such as pay stubs, child support, or proof of public benefits). This allows us to determine at what level you can pay on the discounted fee scale.

If applying for CARE for the first time, you will need to bring in both proof of citizenship and a photo ID (passport or a driver's license and birth certificate) and your Social Security number. If you are 19 or younger, you do not need to have a social security number or passport.