A Missouri abortion story: "I probably would have ended my life" When she was 17 years old, Casey Godwin left her home state of Missouri to have an abortion. After becoming pregnant, Godwin had to cross the Missouri River into the neighboring state of Illinois to terminate the undesired pregnancy. Twenty-two years later, with Missouri poised to potentially close its only abortion clinic, Godwin does not want another woman to have to go through what she did. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES