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Emily Likins-Ehlers 

Certified, Childbirth International

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    • Jun 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    The choice that I made was important for my family, my health, and our future all together.

    I go back and forth with validating myself and then tearing myself down.
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    • Medication Abortion (Pills)
    • Self Managed Medical Abortion
    • Surgical Abortion
    • 6 Weeks
    • 7 Weeks
    • 8 Weeks
    • 10 weeks
    • 11 Weeks
    • Planned Parenthood
    • Independent Health Clinic
    • Help from a friend
    • Fast
    • Easy
    • Relief
    • Peaceful
    • Supported
    • Safe
    • Scary
    • Painful
    • Liberating
    • Sadness
    • Quick
    • Relieving
    • Clinical
    • Never Again
    • Prolonged
    • Complicated
    • Distressing
    • Follow-up care required
    • Uncomfortable
    • Shocking
    • Heartbreaking
    • Important
    • Affirming
    • Thank you, sister
    • 12 Weeks
    • I miss them
    • Wanted Pregnancy Termination
    • Hyperemesis Gravidarum
    • 9 Weeks
    • Grateful
    • Accessible
    • Surreal
    • Necessary
    • Less than 5 Weeks
    • Lonely
    • Alienating
    • Changed my life
    • Positive
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    my life experiences ARE me.

    as more time went on, the sadness of that has transformed into empathy for that young woman (me) and gratefulness that she made the choice

     
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