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Petra ↣ℱormer ∪terus ⅅweller↢
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#pregnancyhelpline #thingsihear
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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She took a plan b pill about 40 min after then midnight sex with the other guy.

So she wanted to know, since she took EC after that encounter, and she was pregnant, couldn't she just know the baby was her partner's?

I had to give her bad news
She was quite surprised.
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Then:
If the baby was her partner's she would keep it, but if it was the other guy's, she would obviously get an abortion, she said.

She thanked me for the info and hung up while muttering about paternity tests before I could talk to her more.

#prochoice culture
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Petra ↣ℱormer ∪terus ⅅweller↢
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#pregnancyhelpline post abortion regret
These calls are more common in the late night and early morning hours.
A young woman near my age called, sobbing. Her abortion was a trauma no one understands or is willing to listen to her about.
She had an abortion a year ago.
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She had been with the father for 5 years at that point. She said he thought he was supporting her but all actually offered to do was to call the abortion clinic for her. 🙄

He wanted kids. She still wants kids. He left her 1 month after she got the abortion.
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The day she called me, she had gone to a baby shower for her ex's current baby mama. She said she had to leave a few times because it was too overwhelming.
All she could think about was how SHE should have a baby right now, how old he would be (she always refered to her lost
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@StupidRock
#pregnancyhelpline #thingsIhear
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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