I chose this service because they advertised that it was ""for women, by women"". When I got there you sat in a large room with about 50 other young women. They call you back and forth a few times and finally call you into the back room. They verify your insurance to make sure the insurance will pay. Then you receive papers saying if you choose not to go through with the procedure you still have to pay for counseling.
Then you get an ""ultrasound"". At 4 weeks the only way to actually see the baby is through an internal ultrasound. They used an external one. You then sit in a hallway with 10 other women and wait for your ""counseling session"". The women tells you an inaccurate date of conception (because they can't determine these things from the type of equipment they use for the ultra sound) and then you go back outside. No ""are you being forced to do this? Are you sure about your choice? nothing!
You are then sent into a back room with 6-7 other young women to change into a gown. So there's a room full of naked pregnant women scared out of their minds looking at each other. No privacy, no consideration just a bunch of animals they pack into a small area. You hear the suction, the screams and the cries of the woman before you. But you're too naked, scared and ashamed to run back now.
They call you out by name into a medical room. You get on the bed and guess what??? NO WOMEN!!! The doctor is a man and the transporter is a man. I chose to stay awake with no medication. I wanted to remember every bit of the pain so I would NEVER put my self through it again. As you lay on the bed there is a women in a small corner in the back with a glass container full of the remains of the previous woman's baby. Picking at it and doing tests on it. You see the hose they use to suck your baby out of you and not once do they treat you like a women, a human.
The ""nurse"" in the room asked why I was staying awake. She said I must be a pro at this because no one ever stays awake for it. I was in shock! I told her I had never done this before and began to cry. The doctor looks you in the face and turns on the suction. You feel the tugging and pulling. At no time did the nurse look in my eye, or hold my hand or try to consoled me.
The worst part was that through the entire ordeal the transporter was walking in and out of the operating room laughing and joking with the people in the recovery room. I asked ""why the hell is this man here, what is going on?!"" He was shocked and said ""ooh I thought dey was knocked out back here""
The transporter pushed my bed into the recovery room where they give you Motrin for the pain. After 5 minutes they kept telling me to get up out of the bed. They needed to give it to the other people. I couldn't move. I was in EXCRUCIATING pain!!! There's no way I could have stood on my own. Finally one lady told them I didn't use anesthesia and to give me 15 minutes to lay there and rest instead of 5. Pfeeewww than God for that extra 10 minutes.
In that same room they check you out, a man gives you medication and you watch all the other young women like yourself get wheeled from the operating room with the transporter laughing and joking around, into the recovery room where they are thrown around like animals because they are under anesthesia and will never know what happened.
PLEASE DO NOT GO HERE!!!! THEY TREAT YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL. I HATE WHAT I DID AND IT WAS AN EXTREMELY HARD CHOICE TO MAKE. BUT IF YOU HAVE TO MAKE THAT CHOICE PLESE GO ELSEWHERE. RECOVERING FROM AN ABORTION WILL NOT BE YOUR ONLY PROBLEM ONCE LEAVING. I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO CONCEIVE CHILDREN SINCE. JUST PLEASE, GO TO YOUR DOCTOR OR PLANNED PARENTHOOD. AT LEAST THEY WILL TREAT YOU LIKE A HUMAN.
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