Gwyn’s Story
The Center Square: Op-Ed: I Never Picked Up the Abortion Drug. Others Have Been Less Lucky
Article appeared in: The Center Square | By: Gwyn Andrews | Photo Credit: Adobe Stock (stock photo)
Growing up as a pastor’s daughter in the heart of a heavily Christian Georgia town, I was the last person you’d expect to become unexpectedly pregnant. Yet there I was – in college on a basketball scholarship – when the double pink lines spelled disaster.
Feeling completely isolated, I contemplated the public shame, my parents’ disappointment, the end of my basketball career, and my inability to afford college if I continued this pregnancy.
I did what many young women in such a vulnerable position would do: I scheduled an appointment online to get abortion drugs..
In the most vulnerable moment of my life, all I had to do was put in my age and I was on the books to pick up the drugs at Planned Parenthood. I was never asked how far along I was or if I was in a coercive situation. All they cared about was my age, because to them I was simply a number, a statistic.
Thankfully, I never picked up those drugs.
