i am only fifteen

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I am only fifteen. How can this be happening to me? Larry assured me everything would be all right. But now here I am, pregnant. I am just a baby myself. What can I do? There are several options that I can choose. Should I have an abortion? Should I give the baby up for adoption? Should I stand up and be held accountable for my actions? I could not sell my child. I do not want my child feeling that she was unloved. Besides, Larry's parents had already told me that if I gave up the baby that they would take her. Adoption was out of the question. I do not believe in abortion as a form of birth control. This child has done nothing wrong. So why should I punish her? So my only option was to have the baby and raise her to the best of my ability. I believe that I made the right decision. This decision has changed every aspect of my life path.

This was the last thing that anyone had expected from me. I was a model child. I always listened to what ever my family had said. Well at least until now. My family had plans for my future and for me. But now those had changed. My mother and my Aunt Cindy had decided that the best thing for me was to have an abortion. They did not consider my feelings in the mat

ter. Well I made a decision, I wanted to keep the baby and raise her. Larry had backed me up and we confronted my family. I refused to have the abortion. I told them that if they tried to make me have an abortion that I would leave and they would never see me again. Against my family's wishes I kept the baby. Even though my family still holds the decision against me, I feel it has made me a better person. I became more independent.

The next time he decided to pop back into my life is when I was 4 1/2 months pregnant. I was in the hospital. My contractions were now 5 minutes apart. I was losing my child. The doctors were not going to do anything to stop it. They told me that it was the best thing for me. Who were they to decide what was best for me? They are not God. They cannot choose who will live and who will die. They are not going to make this choice for me. At that moment, I got the courage that I needed. No one was going to take away my child. I demanded that the doctors do some thing to stop my labor. I threatened them with a huge lawsuit. Soon I was hooked up to an IV and was receiving the medication that I needed. After that I was always brave enough to tell someone exactly what I wanted and how I felt.

Jessica is now fifteen. She is at the same place in her life that I was when I became pregnant with her. I talk to her daily and let her know how important she is to me. I would not change my decision about having her and raising her, if given the choice. If I had to go back and make that decision again, I would not change my mind. But given the chance, I would not be put in that situation again. I would have waited to have sex or at least used some form of protection. I do not regret having her. I do regret having sex at such any e

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