[1] I'm Not Sorry.net was created by Patricia Beninato,[2] a customer service representative from Richmond, Virginia,[3][4][5] who stated that she got the idea in a chat room discussion on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
[6] After searching the Internet for post-abortion accounts, and finding only pro-life services which offered regret counseling, Beninato decided to set up a website on which women satisfied with their decision to abort could share their stories.
Laura Barcella, writing for Salon.com in 2004, noted I'm Not Sorry.net as one of several projects that allowed women to "frankly describe their abortions" and observed that the site "appears to be a reflection of the classic feminist credo 'abortion on demand, without apology'".
[13] Lynn Vincent, who interviewed Beninato for World magazine in 2005, questioned whether the site's policy of accepting anonymous submissions contradicted its stated goal of removing the secrecy often associated with abortion.
[14] Political writer Judith Warner stated in an editorial published on her New York Times-hosted blog, Domestic Disturbances, in 2006 that she did not think a site like I'm Not Sorry.net was "the best way to cement widespread support for a beleaguered movement", as she questioned whether it was reasonable to "[take] a strident, casual, even callous tone on [an] issue" that is often very emotionally charged.