Women Tweet Their Abortion Stories Using #ShoutYourAbortion Hashtag To Defend Their Right To Choose

I had my son at 21 years old. I'm attending college and working on 3 degrees while obtaining scholarships and ensuring his life is the best ever. My mom was raped and conceived me. I'm glad she didn't abort because of the circumstances. I plan on being a Nurse and helping the homeless while ensuring my son has the brightest future possible. He was conceived via failed contraceptive. I would never have given him up and aborting never crossed my mind. Truth is, where there's a will there's a way. Do I struggle? Yeah, but no more than anyone else. In the end, I benefit because he's the most special person to me in this world.

Before this gets any more hate than it already has, just try and think from these women's perspectives. Please? I mean, I know I can't hate on any of them, because I've never been in their situation. NONE of you have been, I can guarantee you. You didn't grow up in their homes, learn what they did, witness what they saw or felt the same pain they have, so naturally you could never know for sure that you would do something different if you were in their shoes. We're no better nor worse than these women, and God loves us all the same regardless of our choices when we're backed into a corner. I will say that I wish that there was some other solution for their predicaments, that if only there could have been a way to avoid the pregnancy or put the child up for adoption, or anything that could have meant it's life would have been spared, but I WILL NOT stand to judge or watch any of you judging these women without speaking my mind because we simply have no right to do so. Let's pray instead

I get what these ladies are trying to do but I think this campaign takes away from the real message. only around 3% of PP's services are abortions, the other 97% is women's health issues. Personally, I don't think "shouting out" your abortion is any more necessary than "shouting out" your pelvic exam. It's a personal procedure between you and your physician.

Abortion is the easy road out, the heroes are the women that made it through and took the long hard road and accomplished their goals while raising their child.

Reading through the comments, both Bored Panda and Facebook, one this has come to light - the open and somewhat callous judgement women who choose to abort, for whatever reason, are subjected to is the very reason this campaign started. Think back about 10 or 20 years and consider how poorly another race or member of the LGBT community were treated, with time and motivated work, issues reduced in various instances South Africa abolished Apartheid and North America recently legalised gay marriages. Yes, there are still haters, but proportionately less than 10 or 20 years ago. For those of you who believe that women should shush about their abortions, this is the reason the campaign started. For those of you judge under the protection of your god, go and read your texts, specifically that bit just after the burning bush on Mount Ararat. Consider this number for a brief moment : 7,000,000,000plus and realise that abortion is a personal choice, a tough one and the right of any mother.