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NORTHERN ADIRONDACK PLANNED PARENTHOOD
66 BRINKERHOFF ST
PLATTSBURGH, NY 12901
518-561-4430
TAPE – 801
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CLINIC: Thank for holding. This is Melissa. May I help you?
CALLER: Hi. Yeah. I was calling to see if you guys do abortions there.
CLINIC: Yes, we do.
CALLER: How much does it cost for that?
CLINIC: Do you have insurance at all?
CALLER: Well, my boyfriend said he would pay cash for everything.
CLINIC: Okay. Because what needs to happen is, one, you have to have a pregnancy test, you have to have a full exam, and then the termination. So you’re looking at, with all of that, around $500.
CALLER: Okay. So you guys would do a pregnancy test first?
CLINIC: Yes, unless you’ve already had one done somewhere.
CALLER: Well, no. I just haven’t had my period since January 3rd, so I’m just really worried.
CLINIC: Okay. So we should at least start with that. Have you been seen here before?
CALLER: No.
CLINIC: And where are you calling from?
CALLER: I’m in Kaysville (unclear).
CLINIC: Kaysville? Okay. So you’re not too far away. What is your last name?
CALLER: It’s Carter. But I have a question really.
I’m going to be 14 later on this month, and my friend told me that you guys would have to tell my parents. But my boyfriend’s 22, and he wanted to take care of it now. Would he be able to do that, and you wouldn’t have to tell anybody?
CLINIC: We wouldn’t tell your parents anyway, not unless you tell us to. But like if they called here, we wouldn’t be able to tell them anything.
CALLER: But would anybody else have to know?
CLINIC: No, no. Just you.
CALLER: All right.
CLINIC: It’s Carter you said?
CALLER: Uh-huh.
CLINIC: First name?
CALLER: Lisa.
CLINIC: Middle initial?
CALLER: I don’t have one.
CLINIC: Address?
CALLER: Well —
CLINIC: Do you want to use his address?
CALLER: Huh?
CLINIC: Do you want to use his address?
CALLER: Yeah.
CLINIC: Okay. What’s his address?
CALLER: But I was actually wanting to ask some other questions too.
CLINIC: Sure. Go ahead.
CALLER: We were talking about all this, me and my boyfriend, and we don’t want anyone to know about us. But if he was paying for it all, would he have to sign anything or put his name on anything?
CLINIC: Is he paying cash?
CALLER: Uh-huh.
CLINIC: No. He can just give you the money, you hand it to us, and we wouldn’t even know about him at all.
CALLER: Oh, okay.
CLINIC: Yep. So that’s fine. What is his address? We need to have some sort of an address.
CALLER: Oh.
CLINIC: We don’t care which one you use.
CALLER: Okay. Well, let me talk to my friend and see if she’ll let me use hers.
CLINIC: Do you want to call back? We’re open until 5.
CALLER: Yeah. If I take the pregnancy first from you guys, if it ended up that I wasn’t pregnant, could I get birth control from you?
CLINIC: Yes. We may have to make a separate appointment from that, but yes, you would be able to do that, yes.
CALLER: Would you have to tell anybody if I was on birth control though?
CLINIC: No.
CALLER: Oh, all right. Another thing is, I can’t drive yet. Would my boyfriend be able to pick up the birth control?
CLINIC: You would actually have to come in for the visit to get the birth control. But then after that, like every month if he wanted to pick it up, as long as you let us know that it was okay for him to pick it up, then he could.
CALLER: Okay. But you’re absolutely sure that no one would have to know about anything?
CLINIC: No, not at all.
CALLER: All right.
CLINIC: Okay?
CALLER: Let me call — how late are you going to be there?
CLINIC: We’re here until 5 today.
CALLER: Okay. All right. Thanks.
CLINIC: Bye bye.
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