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#Abortion regret edition, 2
A call I got recently was from a lady who was just sobbing wildly on the phone at first, I couldn't understand anything she was saying, I just told her she's fine, take her time. She calms down enough to tell me a
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#Abortion regret edition, 2
A call I got recently was from a lady who was just sobbing wildly on the phone at first, I couldn't understand anything she was saying, I just told her she's fine, take her time. She calms down enough to tell me a
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very odd story. She went to a clinic to get the abortion pill procedure done. They gave her the first dose of medication at the clinic, and gave her the dose of the second medication to take home in a brown paper bag.
She did not want the abortion. She says she regretted the
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She did not want the abortion. She says she regretted the
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decision even as she was going into the clinic. Well, she gets home and finds out the 4 pills she was supposed to get were only 2 pills, and the packaging was not intact and one of the 2 pills was not whole. She focused her feelings into anger and went back to the clinic
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Abortion regret edition, 1
Do you know how many women contact me expressing #abortion regret?
A lot.
These women come to me usually at the end of their rope, completely desperate. They feel they cannot tell their family or friends or SO about
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Abortion regret edition, 1
Do you know how many women contact me expressing #abortion regret?
A lot.
These women come to me usually at the end of their rope, completely desperate. They feel they cannot tell their family or friends or SO about
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their feelings. In many cases, it was one or more of these people who encouraged them or even pressured them to have the abortion in the first place, or is encouraging them for doing the right thing afterwards. Sometimes they have told no one about the pregnancy or abortion.
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In all these situations, it boils down to them keeping all the feelings of regret, guilt, shame, doubt, sadness, fear, anxiety, etc. inside because they are afraid of telling someone close them and getting judged and being made to feel worse, or being dismissed and not helped.
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A young woman called me, she was very early in pregnancy. She was trying to decide whether to have an abortion or carry to term. She was facing pressure from her family for one option, and from her bf for another option. She just did not know
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A young woman called me, she was very early in pregnancy. She was trying to decide whether to have an abortion or carry to term. She was facing pressure from her family for one option, and from her bf for another option. She just did not know
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what to do and had never found herself in this situation before, so she hadn't really thought about her options. It was later at night, so I had more time to talk with her. We went over carrying to term and adoption, since one thing she was afraid of was providing for the
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baby and having them grow up in a good environment, She mentioned she knew she could not carry to term only to give her child up. If she carried to term, she would have to parent.
(Many women I talk to feel this way, btw. Adoption is not an option bc they do not want to be a
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(Many women I talk to feel this way, btw. Adoption is not an option bc they do not want to be a
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These are the calls that make me question how seriously wrong we've gone as a culture.
Young woman in early 20s calls. She is just a few weeks pregnant. She wants help figuring out who the father of her child is. Not an atypical request I get.
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These are the calls that make me question how seriously wrong we've gone as a culture.
Young woman in early 20s calls. She is just a few weeks pregnant. She wants help figuring out who the father of her child is. Not an atypical request I get.
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So I let her know that doctors can only tell with an accuracy of about a week when a woman got pregnant, and it may take til she is much further along for them to get that accurate of a timeframe. So if she had sex with more than one partner within the week timeframe...she may
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need a paternity test.
With that info given, she then proceeded to tell me her specific story.
She had sex with her partner during the day one day. She had sex with another guy about 9 hours later, at midnight, and sex with her partner again the following afternoon.
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With that info given, she then proceeded to tell me her specific story.
She had sex with her partner during the day one day. She had sex with another guy about 9 hours later, at midnight, and sex with her partner again the following afternoon.
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