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Ten years ago. My girlfriend at the time, we were 18, last semester of high school. I just enlisted into Marine Corp. She had full scholarship for college. Found out she was pregnant. We decided at that point in our lives we did not want a child, and had an abortion. Seemed an easy decision at the time. Our relationship ended, with me in the military on the east coast and deployed, and her in college on the west. A couple years later I was 20, my wife was 16. With my military deployments, our relationship at the time was one of friends with benefits. She became pregnant. I pushed for abortion. She refused. But I supported her and our child. We married a couple years after that. Our daughter is an amazing and beautiful seven year old. She has a two year old little brother who is my little buddy. I live life with no regrets, but sometimes wonder if with the first one, an abortion, was the right choice...