SHE CHOSE

— EMILY, 29

Emily was living out of home for the first time when she found out she was pregnant. She was young, had no money and didn’t have a very strong relationship with her parents. Initially in denial, she soon had to accept her pregnancy was real – and the idea of having a baby terrified her. “Every cell of me said, ‘No, this is not the right time,’” Emily recalls.

She was 21 weeks pregnant which meant she couldn’t have a termination in Queensland and she assumed she could not have a procedure anywhere else either. Her dad and stepmother paid for her to travel to Victoria for a late-term abortion and accompanied Emily for the trip. They made