See video: Abortion counsellor films her own abortion

The 25-year-old abortion counsellor said that she’s 'not ready to have children'.

17:50 07 May 2014

25-year-old Emily Letts, an abortion counsellor, filmed and released her own abortion procedure to show women “there is such a thing as a positive abortion story.” 

 

Emily, who had her abortion at three weeks at the Cherry Hill Women’s Centre in New Jersey where she works, posted the video on YouTube saying: “I’m not ready to have children.” 

 

“I’m lucky because I feel completely comfortable with the decision. I am supported by everyone.”

 

During the three-minute procedure, she was humming and smiling and telling her doctors: “I got a lot of support. I’m a really lucky girl.” 

 

Once done, she said happily: “I’m done. Yay!” 

 

She ended her video by saying: “I don’t feel like a bad person. I don’t feel sad. I feel in awe of the fact that I can make a baby. 

 

“I can make a life. I knew what I was going to do was right because it was right for me and no one else. I just wanna share my story.”

 

She later wrote in Cosmopolitan and explained why she decided to do it. “I searched the Internet, and I couldn’t find a video of an actual surgical procedure in the clinic that focused on the woman’s experience. 

 

"We talk about abortion so much and yet no one really knows what it actually looks like. 

 

"A first trimester abortion takes three to five minutes. It is safer than giving birth. There is no cutting, and risk of infertility is less than 1%. Yet women come into the clinic all the time terrified that they are going to be cut open, convinced that they won’t be able to have kids after the abortion. 

 

"The misinformation is amazing, but think about it: They are still willing to sacrifice these things because they know that they can’t carry the child at this moment.”