Thread by @StupidRock

#pregnancyhelpline #thingsIhear
#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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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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to get the full medication, took pictures, lodged a complaint, etc. She tells me all this before getting sad again and finally telling me she did not take the second dose of pills yet...but she also was told by the clinic there was nothing she could do to stop the abortion.
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So she is just at home, feeling guilty for ever going in the first place, wanting hope but feeling like there is none, and she just needed to see if there was a chance.
I got her set up with our APR process. She was incredulous-hopeful, but also very upset the clinic never
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said anything about this. (I wasn't surprised) She had calmed down considerably at this point and was only sniffling. She told me every woman needed to know this, so they could have the chance to change their mind, even if there was only a small chance of success.
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