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I'm 17 and pregnant
I can't believe this is happening, but it's definitely for real. After taking two different home pregnancy tests and getting the same result, I decided to skip school last Friday to go to the doctor to find out for sure. And I am most definitely pregnant.
I told my boyfriend over the weekend. He says he'll support whatever decision I make regarding the baby. I've thought about it and decided I don't want to get an abortion. I want to have this baby and find a family to adopt him or her.
I told my parents everything over the weekend as well, including my plans to carry the child to term and to find a family willing to adopt. They were upset, as you can imagine, but support my decision.
I've told a couple of other friends and they think I'm crazy to not have an abortion. I've been trying not to let them fill me with doubt, but I can't help but wonder. Am I making the right decision here? I want to believe I'm doing the right thing. All I know is that I hate the idea of killing this life inside me. After all, he/she didn't ask me to get pregnant.
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I can't say that I understand your exact situation, but I am pro-life. Let me tell you one reason I am pro-life, I'm adopted. I have a wonderful family who loves me very much. My biological mother was 16 when she was pregnant with me, and she gave birth to me and saved a life. The baby inside you is a real human being. Aborting this child is no different from killing a toddler, or any other human being. Hope this helped!
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So glad to hear your parents are supportive. I understand your not wanting to kill a life inside you and your attitude that innocent child inside did not ask for you to get into this predicament. You are the one who will have to live with any decision you make. So lets go over the options. You have friends suggesting an abortion. Of course, they are imagining their selves in the same situation and what they would do. What is right for one person is not going to be right for another. I support mothers choice but also realize there are sometimes situations where it is understandable to have an abortion. If there are no health concerns for you, then there is no reason to abort. I think the biggest issue will be your peers and how they treat you. If you've graduated, then you don't have to worry about going to school and all the stares, alienation, or whatever. If still finishing school, you can do a search for 'schools for pregnant teens' as a search phrase. You are likely on parents insurance until you turn 18. However adult college age people can remain on parents insurance if going to college. So there may be a clause for teen pregnancy if you turn 18 before birth of the child. Look into that with the insurance company now. Then if they say no, It would be worth checking with a lawyer because the cost of pregnancy care is high and so is the birth. Now if adopting it out, you and parents may want to check with several adoption agencies as they may help with or cover costs of the birth. You may also want to think about closed adoption vs open adoption. This would mean you don't want the child ever knowing who you are once they get old enough to wonder. Then there are agencies where you chose the people you like to have them adopt and they will let the child know when they are older and want to meet their birth mother. Or it can be one where you get to be involved in the childs life as much or as little as you want to from its birth on. This would mean the adoptive parents are very happy to include you in special milestones, getting school pictures, birthdays, etc. From a few women I know of who had closed adoptions, giving up the child is hard at the last minute and some change their minds to want to keep the child because never seeing it again feels so final and hard to deal with emotionally. I know those who had closed adoptions who suffered emotionally, and most of all were plagued life long with the what ifs, wondering how the child was but it was too late to change as the adoptive parents may be the kind of people who want no contact and don't want the child knowing it was adopted. I have s sister who had an abortion as a teen and I don't know if it happens to others, but I have heard it can have traumatic affects on the female body to be pregnant one moment and not the next. All I can say is she began to develop medical problems right after, gaining lots of extra weight, her emotions going haywire and becoming bi polar. She will tell you she didn't use to feel that way before becoming pregnant. I can't say anything else was caused by the abortion. However later in life she got diabetes and fibromyalgia a decade later. It seems like her body went haywire after an abortion and slowly got worse. I know plenty females who have no side effects after an abortion other than emotional ones and hormonal ones for a while until hormones return to normal. Tho some feel guilt and that can last a lifetime.
I have always thought that the open adoption where either you or the child can find each other once they become an adult, or you are involved in their life, like a relative would be to be the best options. This way you don't worry about never seeing the child. A teen pregnancy is not something to worry about hiding from a child. Better for your child to know that it is too hard as a teen to begin raising a child so you made the loving choice that he/she was adopted by a couple who could care for the child and also supported that child knowing they are the adoptive Mom and Dad and you the birth mother. It seems any child not kept out of the loop but knowing the circumstances, is less likely to repeat history and get pregnant or make a girl pregnant. So don't worry about it. Only if its kept secret as if it was a really bad thing, will the child wonder and perhaps even resent both you and adoptive parents for keeping it secret. I don't know if a person could handle knowing their father was the man who raped their Mom. That is not the case here so give it a thought. But remember whatever you decide, it will not be able to be reversed later and your mind is stilling developing, the frontal cortex and won't be done until your mid tweenties. So about then, you may think differently about what you chose to do. SO I guess you have to decide best how you might feel in the future and make your best choices regarding the adoption procedure. Blessing to you dear. It isn't easy but can be very fulfilling depending how you go on adoption process
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if ythink that y are able to take care of this baby that sok but if y wanna keep it butthen give it to a family then it s a no 0. yr 17 yo i think better to go and have an abortion .
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