World Press Photo 2020

Diana (name changed), 91 years old, single, no children, one abortion After the war, in 1945, I was afraid of everything. My leg was amputated when I was still very young. I had to use crutches for a long time, then I got a prosthetic leg and it became easier to walk. When I was 20 years old, I got pregnant. Ivan and I were not a couple. We just met from time to time. When I told him I was pregnant, he looked at me in silence and left. His mother was against me having a baby. She said that they did not need a child from a crippled daughter-in-law, that I had to have an abortion. I was upset. I had an abortion. I thought that without a leg I was a cripple, and nobody needed me like that. I never again let anyone close, I decided that I would stay alone. All my life I worked as a seamstress in a small town in the north of Belarus. I do not regret having an abortion - I didn't want to raise the child on my own.