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Abortion Clinics
"I couldn’t believe I knew this secret that this girl had kept from her family and friends."
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By Chelsea Vargas
I’m well known at school for being the girl with all the sex ed information. But here I am this supposed expert, and yet I had never actually set foot in a clinic. So I decided to volunteer.
My second day at the clinic, one of the clinicians who’d taken me under her wing brought me into a procedure room, to see an abortion being performed. The girl was younger than I was. When the clinician asked her if I could watch the procedure, she said sure.
Partway through the abortion, the clinician asked the patient if she had a ride home. Yeah – the bus, the girl replied. No one was coming to pick her up because no one knew where she was. I couldn’t believe I knew this secret that this girl had kept from her family and friends. But it seemed like she might have been glad to have someone to tell, even if the someone was some random girl she’d never see again.
The whole procedure took less than five minutes, and it wasn’t gory at all. I have no idea what she’ll think about the whole experience, now that it’s over, or if she’ll even remember I was there. But I know I will.
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