From a woman in California in response to that painful read:

I read the three part NYT story with young Emmie finding herself unexpectedly pregnant.
There was something utterly barbaric about it. So well hidden behind the emotional confusion and teary distress was a crude, desensitized petrie-dish feel to this life growing in her womb. This was a public discussion on whether a young woman should kill her baby. Even in my cynicism, I cannot wrap my mind around that.
“I firmly believe that there’s nothing to regret here and we didn’t do anything wrong. Birth control fails. People get scared. They underestimate themselves and each other. Everything will be okay.”
Poor Emmie. There is everything in the world and thensome to regret. And regret she will.
Birth control does fail, people do get scared and do underestimate themselves and each other but everything will not be okay because in the middle of the night when all is quiet save for the still small voice of God and her raw heart, it will dawn on her painfully and horribly, that her baby no longer lives because of her selfishness, no more, no less. The worst part is that she knew from the get-go that an abortion would not be right for why else, Kathryn, would she continually refer to what was growing in her womb as, her baby? She knew that was life within.
I’m 28 years post-abortion and have finally come to terms with the same sad and awful decision that Emmie made. It is only those who must rationalize and justify that would ever declare ’there’s nothing to regret here’. It’s with great sadness to consider the thousands of tears and many nights of agony Emmie may go through if she is to ever realize, fully, what a human life is worth and that she denied her child the right to live. We can only deceive ourselves for so long.

If you have regrets, or want to help understand regrets, this is one place to go.