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Jen's
Story
I am a college student, and I am writing a report
for my English class on the importance of pro-choice decisions in our society.
I came across your site and I found it to be very encouraging. I agree that women
should have the right to choose whether or not they want to carry a pregnancy
to full-term.
My story is a little different, because my child was three
when I decided to terminate my second pregnancy. I was twenty-two, and I never
would have imagined myself in that situation. I was very careful, and used protection
every time my boyfriend (who was also my three-year-old's father) and I had sex.
I had always been pro-choice, but I never believed I could terminate
a pregnancy. That's the thing.... no one knows what they would do in a particular
situation, until they are in it.
It was the most difficult decision
I've ever made, but I had to consider the child I did have, not what would have
been. I knew I could not provide for two children on my income. I know now that
I would not have been able to go to college and pursue my goals if I had not terminated
the pregnancy.
My child is now five-years-old, and I look at him knowing
I made the right choice. Jen
2 April 2001
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A
meta-analysis published in the Journal of
the American Medical Association finds "no convincing evidence that prenatal
cocaine exposure is associated with developmental toxic effects that are different"
in children up to six years of age from those caused by multiple other risk factors.
Boston University researchers led by Dr. Deborah Frank reviewed 36 journal articles
published between 1984 and 2000 that studied the various postnatal effects of
prenatal cocaine exposure. Outcomes were assessed in the domains of physical growth;
cognition; language skills; motor skills; and behavior, attention, affect and
neurophysiology. [Mar 28, 2001]
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