The Denver Post spoke to eight people about their abortions, including why they chose to end their pregnancies and what it was like for them.
After two losses, Rebecca Leder doesn’t like the terms “pro-choice or pro-life” when it comes to talk about ending a pregnancy.
The leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that indicated justices would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling wouldn’t outlaw abortion in Colorado. Lawmakers passed legislation this year codifying it into law. But it would allow states to decide to prohibit abortions and still leaves room for Congress to enact a nationwide ban.
Najar had been working as Cobalt’s political director for just six months in 2020 when she found out she was pregnant. She wasn’t trying to have a baby, living in a small apartment in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood with her boyfriend, and she even had an IUD inserted. But it failed. “Knowing that she did not have the financial resources, nor would she have her family support to carry to term a pregnancy … In the early 90s, an unwed mother, there was so much stigma about being an unwed mother, that that was a huge motivating force for why she ultimately did get an abortion was that she didn’t want to be a young single mother who was kicked out by her parents,” Najar said.
The upcoming Supreme Court decision is one that Najar anticipated, but she wants people to know that the decision doesn’t mean abortions are outlawed everywhere — just that they are no longer a guaranteed right in every state. And even more importantly, she said, “regardless of whether or not you personally support abortion should not influence somebody else’s ability to determine their own future.”T, pictured on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, said her abortion helped her leave an unsafe marriage.
One day, her pills went missing. She was adamant that she didn’t want to have unprotected sex. So, she said, he raped her. Even though “T” hasn’t been able to share her story before publicly, even hiding it from family, she wanted to tell others about it so they knew they had options.Jodi Katz, pictured at her home in Aurora on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, said she wants to share her story of abortion to broaden understanding around the procedure.In 2000, Jodi Katz, a teacher in Aurora Public Schools who loved children, wanted to try to have a little girl.
As a teacher, Katz saw kids in school with extreme developmental delays, and she worries about what happens to them as they get older. Rayna, who asked to be identified only be her first name for for fear of how family or her employer might react, said finding out she was pregnant was “terrifying.” She couldn’t afford the cost of an abortion, let alone of raising a child. She was on Medicaid, which doesn’t cover the cost of abortions, and she had to borrow money from her dad. She didn’t tell her mom until years later, worrying about her reaction because of her mother’s religious stance on the issue.
Rayna said she doesn’t understand how people on the opposite side of the abortion debate can say “they love an unborn child and then the child is born and they don’t support the systems that help a child live.”Priscilla Condon is pictured at her daughter’s home in Denver on Friday, May 20, 2022.Two weeks after graduating high school in 1964 in Alabama, Priscilla Condon was raped.
But as Condon was leaving, the nurse handed her a piece of paper with a phone number. She didn’t say anything else. Condon said she went with a friend to a house in rural Alabama outside of Montgomery, in a town called Ramer, at about eight or nine weeks pregnant. She drank something a woman gave her when she walked in and then went to the back to the house. No one asked her for personal information and she doesn’t have a strong memory of the actual procedure. She doesn’t even know who performed the procedure or if he had any medical training.
Condon spent her career as a nurse practitioner, working in low-income clinics and even counseling other people considering abortions. This is the first time she’s decided to publicly share her story, working with her daughter Tyler Traficanti who lives in Colorado and co-chairs Cobalt’s abortion fund.
She was living in North Carolina at the time and had waited a while before deciding what to do about her pregnancy. Her family did some research and found out that she could go to Colorado for a later-term abortion. She had a ticket ready.Twenty-five years later, she’s in Colorado advocating for giving women the right to choose what to do with their bodies.
She said she later learned about how brave doctors were at the time, and how some had to “calculate dates” to ensure patients received the care they needed. She didn’t want to go to a clinic nearby in case her employer found out or it leaked to some of her religious clients who may have viewed her differently if they knew.
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