Pregnant College Student Rejects Abortion, Plans to Become a Doctor
Two years ago, Students for Life of America launched our Pregnant on Campus Initiative, dedicated to helping Students for Life groups provide tangible support and services on campuses to make sure no young girl has to choose between her child or her education. Because sadly, we know that happens every day. She becomes pregnant and everyone on campus – her friends, her professors, and her campus health center – tell her abortion is her only option.
When several of my peers suggested that I get an abortion (like many of them have had themselves), I became disenchanted with the low expectations and lack of faith from my peers. I continued with my education and my twin boys were born during my second year at the university. The father of my boys also continued with his education, graduating with his bachelor’s degree in 2010 and his master’s degree in 2012. Through perseverance, hard work, and support from my family, I was able to graduate with my bachelor’s degree on time (2010), within four years after graduating high school. I completed my master’s degree in counseling two years later (2012), received a graduate award for “Outstanding Graduate Student 2011-2012” from my university, and became a full-time PhD student at the age of 24 from an APA- accredited university (2012). I can gratefully proclaim that I will become the doctor that I had always envisioned.
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