The Cry

One in three women will have an abortion. Forty-five percent will have more than one. I am one in three. I am one in forty-five percent. I am not alone.

I was sixteen years old when the cry began. It was a silent screaming within my soul that I felt sure everyone could hear. I carried the cry for fifteen years before I was able to identify it.

It started the day I had my first abortion.

"A simple outpatient procedure; we will remove the mass of tissue. You're young-you have your whole lives ah...