10 Women on Getting an Abortion in the End Days of Roe

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After thinking about it for another week, I decided, okay, I do want to get an abortion. By then I was over six weeks pregnant and had to go out of state. I made an appointment at Planned Parenthood in Maryland, my home state. I didn’t really have a plan — I just figured I would get myself there. The person on the phone at PP asked if I needed help and connected me with the National Network of Abortion Funds.

I called the midwife group that I used with one of my previous pregnancies , and the midwife asked that I schedule an ultrasound for two weeks after that to confirm that finding. Those two weeks were stressful, but we still were supposed to have one healthy, viable fetus. We went to that appointment assuming that we would find that Twin A had stopped growing and Twin B was fine. But what we found out was that Twin A had stopped growing and Twin B was sick in many ways.

Everyone rushed us to make a decision as fast as possible because an abortion early in pregnancy can be as little as $500, but the point I was at — 18 weeks — costs way more. We were given a quote by the hospital of $3,900, and the hospital kept saying, if anything goes wrong, it’ll be more. The labor induction ended up taking four days. I was given misoprostol, vaginally and orally, many times and Pitocin and foley bulbs. My body just wasn’t responding to the induction.

I woke up very early, drove 30 minutes, and got there when it opened. I was terrified of running into somebody at the clinic or anybody finding out. That’s easy to happen here. Everybody knows everybody, and the rumors — my parents will even hear rumors, and they’re old. But I didn’t run into anyone.

I made an appointment on New Year’s Eve at Planned Parenthood. The first appointment available was on January 18, just for the consultation. I was like, If it’s December 31, and the first available appointment is January 18, I better just book it. I thought about the Texas six-week rule. I found out I was pregnant before I had even missed a period, and still the earliest appointment I could get was after the six-week mark. In the meantime, I talked to my primary-care physician.

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