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NORTHERN VIRGINIA WOMEN’S HEALTHCARE
10400 EATON PL. # 515
FAIRFAX, VA 22030
703-591-1999
TAPE – 648
(Dialing, phone ringing 3x)
CLINIC: Women’s Clinic. Can I help you?
CALLER: Yeah. Hi. I was call to see if you guys do abortions there.
CLINIC: Uh-huh. We do under local and general.
CALLER: Okay. Well, how much does that cost?
CLINIC: It’s 475 to go to sleep, and it’s 330 to stay awake.
CALLER: Okay. My friend said that since I’m going to be 14 in later on this month —
CLINIC: Oh. Well, you need to go D.C. and Maryland. Oh, 14 weeks pregnant?
CALLER: No, 14 years old.
CLINIC: Years old. Okay. You need to bring a letter if you’re going to be awake, and if you want to go to sleep your parents have to be here.
CALLER: Oh, okay. Well, my boyfriend’s 22. Could he just sign whatever it is, and they wouldn’t have to tell anyone?
CLINIC: No. No, you can’t do that. If you want to go to sleep you can’t do that. If you stay awake you need to bring a letter.
CALLER: From who?
CLINIC: From your guardian or your parents.
CALLER: But I don’t want them to know. I mean, they know that me and my boyfriend are going out; they just don’t —
CLINIC: Yeah, that’s the law in Virginia.
CALLER: Well, what can I do?
CLINIC: To stay awake and bring a letter.
CALLER: From who?
CLINIC: We don’t usually check it (chuckle).
CALLER: You don’t?
CLINIC: No. Just bring a letter.
CALLER: Okay.
CLINIC: Okay? You need to make an appointment though.
CALLER: The main reason that I’m worried about all this is I haven’t had my period since January 3rd, and I’m just scared.
CLINIC: Hold on a second. Let me just finish this one call, and then I’ll be right with you, okay? Hold on, okay?
CALLER: All right.
(Pause)
CLINIC: You want to make an appointment?
CALLER: Well, I would have to call my boyfriend to see because he’d be the only way I could get there. But do you guys do pregnancy test there? Just to make sure.
CLINIC: Yeah, we do. But we do the test here on the day of the appointment.
CALLER: Oh, okay.
CLINIC: Yeah. We have to have a positive pregnancy test.
CALLER: Well, is there any problem with my boyfriend coming in though?
CLINIC: No.
CALLER: Oh, okay.
CLINIC: You just need to bring a letter.
CALLER: Oh, okay.
CLINIC: But you need to have an appointment.
CALLER: Well, if it ended up that I wasn’t pregnant after the pregnancy test, could I get birth control there?
CLINIC: Yeah. We can schedule — not on the same day, but we can schedule you next-door —
CALLER: And would you have to tell anybody about birth control?
CLINIC: You talk to the nurse.
CALLER: Well, if I was on birth control, would you have to tell anybody that I was?
CLINIC: No. That’s personal. No, we won’t do that.
CALLER: Okay. It’s just me and my boyfriend don’t want to have to worry about all this anymore, so we were wanting to get birth control.
CLINIC: Okay?
CALLER: So when I come in, bring a letter?
CLINIC: Yeah. Do you want to make an appointment?
CALLER: What does the letter need to say?
CLINIC: That they’re allowing you to have an abortion.
CALLER: Oh, okay. All right. Well, let me call my boyfriend to see when he can bring me.
CLINIC: Okay. We do it on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.
CALLER: Okay. So let me call you and call you back. What was your name?
CLINIC: Josie (?).
CALLER: Okay. Thanks.
CLINIC: Bye.
CALLER: Bye.
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