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Get abortion without parents knowing
I'm 18 years old and I think I might be pregnant. My parents have already told me in the past that if I ever got pregnant as a teenager, they'd kick me out of the house. Is there a way that I can go about getting an abortion without them finding out?
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Hi there,
While it is possible for you to get the abortion without their consent or knowledge, at the time, I would like to ask you to take a second and think about something that may not have occurred to you yet:
Things like this will be found out. Many women suffer from crushing guilt after having an abortion. If they don't have someone to talk with, the guilt causes too many of them to end their own lives. :-(
So what do you do? Well, look at the reason that your parents said that... do you think they said that so you would have abortions just so you could stay living there rent free?
Nope. They said that to you to make you THINK TWICE about having sex while they are still paying your bills. maybe you did think twice about it, but you did it anyway, and here you are. They said something like that to you, in hopes that you would never be in this position.
So, what now? Well, the odds are that your parents don't feel the same way they did about this when you were 13. At 18, you have a better chance of being able to take care of a baby.
You need to tell your parents about this and see what they say. Trust me on one thing: Things like this don't stay secret forever.
How stupid would you feel when they find out you had an abortion, and they tell you they would give anything to have a grandchild? Then proceed to disown you for having an abortion?
Once upon a time, my Dad told me that he would rather see me dead than working for someone outside the family. This caused a great deal of heartache, since I took him at face value.
He didn't mean it, he just wanted me to work with him and thought my chosen career path was heading noplace fast.
Same difference... Your parents don't want your baby dead, and they don't want you to have to live with the guilt that sometimes causes people to take their own life... They just didn't want you ruining your life, and used the only leverage they had to scare you into making smarter choices with your body.
Talk with your parents. You are 18 years old and responsible for your own self. Odds are, they wouldn't want you to have an abortion so you can keep living there. If you think about it, that doesn't even make sense.
My parents are all about the grandbabies. Your parents are too... even if they haven't figured it out yet. :-)
Please let me know if there is anything you need.
DN.
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