Let me encourage you to give yourself some space to figure things out because now it is personal. Regretting a fictional abortion doesn’t cost you anything. But, if you regret an abortion, a real abortion, that weight will cost you something.

It’s one of the reasons we open our clinic doors every day. Here  at Alcove Health Women’s Clinic, we create – and protect – the safe space within our walls so women can walk through our doors and consider all their pregnancy options. So they can discuss the pros and cons of each pregnancy choice. So they can talk and be heard.

No assumptions. No judgment. You don’t have to explain yourself or apologize if you have concerns you didn’t expect to have. This is real life and it matters that you get this right.

So, while you don’t owe us anything, you do owe yourself a couple of things.

First, you owe yourself the knowledge that only certain medical services can provide. While your emotions may be your first concern right now, there are some physical answers you need. You can get all of these answers through an ultrasound.

Here at Alcove Health, we provide lab-grade pregnancy tests, first. If the test is positive, we provide ultrasounds. These ultrasounds are crucial to you being fully informed before your abortion.

This early pregnancy ultrasound will provide the accurate age of the pregnancy, rule out an ectopic pregnancy (for which you would not get an abortion), and determine if the pregnancy is already in the process of a miscarriage.

Getting this information before you begin any abortion procedure could help you not regret an abortion, because the ultrasound may show that you don’t even have a pregnancy to abort.

Every year, women enter our clinic doors trying to decide if abortion is right for them and leave with the knowledge that they don’t have a pregnancy to abort. And they figured this out by taking the time to come to an appointment in our free clinic.