If you’re facing an unplanned pregnancy, you may feel pressure from many sources and in conflicting directions. Sometimes, outside voices can make it feel complicated to understand what you really want. If you are leaning towards carrying to term and becoming a parent, but you feel like someone else is trying to sway your decision toward abortion, it’s essential to recognize that as pressure. Then, decide how you will deal with it.
Peak Women’s Center provides a safe, confidential environment to discuss your options without pressure or judgment. Our services are free because your health and well-being matter. Contact us to schedule a free appointment to discuss your options and path forward.
When Conversations Feel One-Sided
If you mention parenting or adoption and your partner or friend dismisses your thoughts, avoids the conversation, or shows frustration—but seems calm or supportive when abortion is mentioned—this can be a form of pressure. Over time, these repeated responses may cause you to doubt your own instincts and desires.
Any time your desire is minimized or you start to doubt yourself, it’s important to pause and consider whether or not the person you’re talking with might be intentionally or unintentionally adding pressure to your situation.
Support Comes with Conditions
If support is offered only if you choose abortion, it’s possible you’re being pressured towards that outcome. Offering to help with travel, money, or logistics for an abortion and withholding help if you mention other options is manipulative and a sign that your partner or friend isn’t acting with your preferences in mind.
If support disappears when you consider parenting or adoption, that’s a clear imbalance. You deserve encouragement that respects what you want, not just what feels most convenient to the other party.
Control Is Used to Influence Your Choice
If someone threatens to withdraw financial, emotional, or relational support unless you agree to an abortion, that crosses a line into coercion. In some cases, this can escalate to emotional or physical harm.
If you ever feel unsafe, reach out for help right away. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 800-799-7233.
Your Voice Matters
Even people who care about you may react out of their own fears. But the decision is yours to make. Accurate medical information and supportive guidance can give you the necessary clarity.
Knowledge is power, and that’s why we offer pregnancy testing and limited ultrasounds so you can learn as much as possible about your pregnancy. We also provide confidential options consultations—all at zero cost to you. These services give you the facts you need to make a decision with confidence.
Schedule your appointment today. You deserve the space to think clearly, ask questions, and move forward on your own terms.
Peak Women’s Center does not provide or refer for abortions.