Exclusive—Aisha Taylor: My Local Pregnancy Center Was a Lifeline in My Darkest Days

I never expected to be one of the more than a million women who seek help from their local pregnancy center each year. I had a successful career in corporate finance and had taken a leap of faith to start my own business and personal finance blog. When I found myself unexpectedly pregnant with twins, the comfort and stability I had become so accustomed to quickly vanished.
My partner and the father of my children was clear that he wanted me to have an abortion. When I refused, he began relentlessly pressuring me and verbally abusing me with single-mom stereotypes. He said I would never succeed as a mom and that I was selfish for wanting to bring our children into the world. I truly wanted to have my babies, but my current circumstances were overwhelming. I was afraid of what being a single mom would mean for my finances and goals, and how I both would raise my children and pursue my dreams as a single mom. I didn’t see a path forward. I started to believe that all those stereotypes were …