They Refused to Tell Her

“Just come and get more pills to take.”

That’s what they told my client “” who I’ll call Miriam to protect her identity “” when she called them first, crying and scared, to get help. They were supposed to be there to help her, weren’t they? 

Miriam was a little older than the women I usually speak with. When she called the hotline, Miriam shared with me that she was old enough to have a teenaged son. But when that precious mama found out she was pregnant again, she hadn’t called Care Net.

Instead, the father of her new baby had traveled with her to an out-of-state abortion clinic. And, with the help of the clinic staff there, he had convinced herto take the first dose of an abortion regimen that she didn’t want.

The day after, she saw some spotting.
Then she did what they’d told her to do and took the next set of pills.
A couple of days later, it was more of the same.

Miriam didn’t know what to do, so she called the clinic back and told them she really needed some answers. That’s when they told her to just take more of the abortion drugs meant to kill her baby.

She shared that she didn’t want the abortion. All she wanted was her baby.
So then she asked them if there was anything she could do to reverse it.

PDL: A Different Kind of Voice

By the time she called me, she was sobbing. She was so scared. Scared for her health. Scared for her kids. What would happen to her children if anything happened to her? What was already happening to the baby she was carrying?

Even though the abortion clinic had never told her to, Miriam had already done the right thing and called the ER. Unfortunately, she was too uncertain to go in. She had taken so much medicine from the clinic, and she wasn’t even entirely sure what all she’d taken.

Our national hotline “” Pregnancy Decision Line (PDL) “” was the only place left that she felt safe calling for help. I was the only voice left.

I remember feeling so terrible for her.  No one should have to go without getting their questions answered. I felt helpless for her. She’d been going through this with no one trying to meet her needs.

Sharing Truth, Saving Lives

That clinic had lied to her.
I didn’t have to say it.
Miriam knew.

Watch the full video of Miriam’s story: 

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A New Federal Hotline?

Maybe by now you’ve heard that there’s a new federal “reproductive healthcare” hotline on the way. Only Title X recipients will be eligible to apply to answer their phones.

That means it won’t be pro-life voices like mine answering the phone. Instead, there may be voices just like the ones who lied to Miriam when she was begging for help. Voices who “” even when a woman flat-out asks if there’s anything she can do to reverse her abortion while there’s still time… while herbaby’s still alive and can be saved “” will refuse to refer to services like Abortion Pill Reversal.

They’ve also already said that they will NOT refer a woman to any resource that she doesn’t ask for… which means she needs to know about it in the first place. So what happens if she doesn’t know that there’s a pregnancy resource center just WAITING to help her and her baby, right there in her own community?

What happens if, like Miriam, her partner is right there next to her when she’s on the phone… pressuring her to abort their unborn baby?

They’ll refer her for an abortion and move on to the next call.

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