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Commentary: The best way to keep abortion legal: Women like me should talk openly about having them

In the summer of 2016, it felt like all my ships were coming in: I'd secured a teaching job, and I was dating someone new. "Buy a lottery ticket!" a friend said. I did.

Then, unexpectedly, I got pregnant.

I've wanted to be a mom for as long as I can remember. Two years earlier, I'd had an IUD removed when a longtime boyfriend and I began discussing kids. Instead of having a baby, we broke up. And then things worsened: My finances crumbled. My dad got cancer.

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