Woman 'happy' she aborted baby so older kids didn't have to share a bedroom

A woman in the UK took to social media to share that she had an abortion for financial reasons and though she was sad about it at first, she's now happy she did it and does not regret it. She encouraged other women in seeking abortion like she did.

Key Takeaways:

• Leah Allington shared that she had an abortion in 2024 because of her financial status. She didn't want to make her two born children share a bedroom. She had already decided to abort when she developed extreme vomiting.

• She said she didn't want an abortion and was "devastated" about it, but that she also doesn't regret it and is now "happy" she ended her child's life.

• Today, she lives in a three bedroom home and has a part-time job, which she says would not have been possible without abortion.

The Details:

Leah Allington, 28, said she wanted to be open about having had an abortion so that she could find closure and encourage other women. She explained that she had two young children when she learned she was pregnant for the third time in July of 2024.

She and the baby's father immediately knew that because of their circumstances, they would abort their youngest child.

Then, Allington began experiencing extreme vomiting, likely hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), which affects up to three percent of pregnant women and requires medical intervention to prevent dehydration and malnutrition. Allington did take one trip to the hospital where she was put on IV fluids.

A few days after that, she called an NHS facility to schedule an abortion.

In the UK, abortion is legal up to 24 weeks and will be committed at the taxpayers' expense if two doctors agree that carrying the baby to term would cause a greater risk to the mother's physical or mental health than an abortion would.

Allington claimed in a video:

"I don't think I missed a period, I think I just had some sort of feeling that something wasn't right. My first thought [after seeing positive pregnancy test] was, I know I can't keep it, and I was upset. Then I started throwing up; it was scary, it was out of nowhere as well.

I think it's almost like a sign that I was making the right decision; my body was simply rejecting it, essentially. I came home from the hospital, or the next day, I called the clinic. They were all so lovely, there was no judgment at all."

Why would the abortion facility staff judge her? She's a client they were set to profit from.

The HG was not a 'sign'. Regardless of HG, Allington ultimately aborted her baby because of her living situation. Her family of four was in a two-bedroom flat and she and her partner were sleeping in the living room so that her two older children could have their own rooms.

This is telling. It's nice that she wanted her children to have their own spaces but it wasn't necessary. This wasn't a dire situation. Lots of siblings share a bedroom. And it's doubtful that she asked her three-year-old and nine-year-old children if they wanted their baby sibling sacrificed so they could continue to have their own bedrooms.

Quiet coercion

One peer-reviewed study revealed that most women who have abortions (64%) feel like Allington — they don't actually want an abortion but think they should have one.

It's the false and coercive idea that if you don't have a certain size home or bank account, its more responsible to kill your preborn child.

As Margaret Sanger, the eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood, famously and horrifically argued, "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

And yet, after years of claiming women had to "shout" their abortions with pride, the current pro-abortion push is to claim it's okay to be sad about it.

As Allington said:

"I think something that people don't talk about when they have an abortion is, that you're allowed to be sad. Nobody wants to have an abortion. I was devastated and upset, it's not a nice process to go through. But I do not regret it and I never will.

I'm happy I had an abortion and I'm happy my family don't have to suffer. If I didn't have the abortion, we wouldn't have end [sic] up where we are now."

Allington credits her abortion with the fact that her family is now in a three bedroom house with a garden, and that they recently booked their first holiday. She credits ending the life of her third baby for allowing her to get a part-time job in the evenings.

"We're in a much better position and situation for not having a third child," she said, adding that she wanted to share her abortion experience "to get closure and help other women."

If she's happy about her abortion, why would she need "closure"?

Sadly, it appears she put money and status ahead of her baby's life. Then, she tried to blame pro-lifers.

"I just think there's such pressure to keep the babies, but no one actually cares the next day," she said. "The pro-lifers that are protesting, the next day they're probably going to work, they don't care about this one person's baby. It doesn't affect them."

What pro-lifers do

Perhaps if a pro-lifer had been able to reach Allington and offer her help, her baby would still be alive today, because pro-lifers offer support and follow through on it.

Just one example is the work of The Good Counsel Network. One client, Isabel, shared that when she became pregnant, her brother said he would not allow her to live with him if she had the baby. Fearing she would be a homeless mother, she decided on an abortion, but outside the abortion business, she was met by a pro-life sidewalk counselor from the Good Counsel Network.

“She greeted me, offered me a leaflet and I decided to talk to her,” explained Isabel, who shared her story at Be Here for Me. “I was lost, I didn’t know what to do with the pregnancy. She asked me why I was there and I told her everything. She was like, ‘If there is any way I could get support for you, would that put you in a position where you felt you did not have to terminate the pregnancy’ and I said ‘Yes, if I am able to get the support, I do want to keep this baby’. So I was assured.”

The Good Counsel Network found Isabel a home and once her baby was born, provided her with baby gear and financial support. That's what pro-life groups provide.

Sadly, many areas in the UK are banning sidewalk outreach like that which Isabel received. Pro-lifers are no longer being allowed to offer life-affirming assistance to women seeking abortions, who are possibly under coercion.

Why It Matters:

Allington's words ultimately serve to further coerce women into believing that they must have abortions based on their financial status. Isabel is one of countless women helped by pro-lifers and Allington could have received the same kinds of assistance.

In addition, people who have lost siblings to abortion have shared the pain that they live with as a result. Penelope learned at age 16 that her mother had an abortion. “Knowing I wasn’t inconvenient enough to end up the way my sister was, and the fact my mother felt she needed to do what she did out of vulnerability, pressure, and panic makes me feel guilt in that I was spared and that I couldn’t help her choose life at the time,” she explained.

Chloe lost her twin siblings to abortion. “I felt heartbroken, and at times, I feel guilty,” she said. “I struggled with depression before I found out, and after finding out about the abortion I constantly questioned my worthiness of being on this planet. I always felt (and still feel) like there’s an important part of my life missing.”

Another sibling survivor explained the pain they felt after learning of their mother’s abortion. “We let it drop and I forgot about it,” they wrote. “But I had not really forgotten. I didn’t think about it consciously for years.” But then, “Suddenly I found myself thinking about my little brother! I became disoriented and lost control of the car for a moment as I burst into tears having lost him. I was astounded by my reaction, but I couldn’t shake the sadness and longing to have known him.”