Deciding on teen motherhood, withstanding insults from the community
By the time Summer Culbreth discovered she was pregnant, she was four months along. Though she initially wanted an abortion - feeling too young and unprepared to raise a kid - she came around to keeping the baby. But the tumultuous period didn't end there: when she told peers about her pregnancy, their judgmental reactions were a rude awakening. "After seeing such controversy over the years on the subject of abortion, I soon realized how many hypocrites live in this world. It doesn’t make sense to me that we can live in a society that criticizes abortions yet shuns and shames teenage parents." Read her story on Voicewaves.