When American abortion counsellor Emily Letts discovered she was pregnant, not only did she decide to get an abortion – she decided to film it, too.

The 25-year-old former actress found someone to film the procedure and posted the three-minute video on YouTube. The non-graphic video focuses on her face throughout the procedure and includes an explanation from her leading up to the abortion. “I just want to share my story,” Letts says in the video. “To show women that there is such a thing as a positive abortion story.”

Letts described her reasons for filming the abortion in a Cosmopolitan article posted on May 5. “While I was pregnant and waiting for my procedure, I thought, ‘Wait a minute, I have to use this,’” she wrote.

It was an opportunity for her to experience what her patients go through at the Cherry Hill Women’s Center in New Jersey.

“I know there are women who feel great remorse,” she wrote. “I have seen the tears. Grieving is an important part of a woman’s process, but what I really wanted to address in my video is guilt.”

In the video, after the procedure is complete, Letts appears cheerful as the doctors help her into a wheelchair. “I feel good,” she says in the video. “I’m done. Yay!”

Later in the video, she says she doesn’t regret the decision. “I knew what I was going to do was right because it was right for me and no one else.”

The video has more than 1.25 million views on YouTube.