It's not as simple as abortion v. adoption. Just ask Bri
Bri had wanted to be a mom for as long as she can recall.
"I remember in high school, one of my aunts had a large family, so I used to say I wanted five kids like her," she said.
But seven years ago, Bri got pregnant by accident. She was 21 years old and the reality she confronted was very different from her teenage fantasy.
"You don't have a car," she kept thinking. "How are you going to raise a baby without a car?"
Bri, who asked us not to use her full name, was a live-in nanny for a family on the east coast at the time, and wanted to go to community college to work towards her social work degree.
But she became so incapacitated by a severe form of morning sickness that she moved across the country into her mom and dad's home in a remote
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