#pregnancyhelpline Fishy business Ed.
A woman calls after taking the first abortion pill. She says a lady on the sidewalk outside the clinic gave her a brochure with our number, and she really does not want to go through with the abortion.
(Thanks, kind sidewalk counselors!)
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Before I transfer her to the nurse, she tells me she had an ultrasound and the clinic worker told her she saw 2 embryos! Then they told her only one was alive.
She asked me how they would know that, because there was no sound coming out of the machine. She assumed it was bc
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she was too early for them to pick up a heartbeat, but wondered then how'd they known one embryo was dead already? They also wouldn't tell her which one on the screen was the one they were asserting was already dead.
I said I wasn't sure, but to ask about it when she got her
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next ultrasound in just a couple days.

Maybe it was an honest mistake. How can you tell when one of two embryos is dead, assuming you can't yet pick up a heartbeat? Is that possible? I have no idea.

I just hope 2 tiny human lives are saved this time around.

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