It was several weeks into the pandemic when PPMM Clinician Kate S had a patient come in to the health center for a medication abortion. The woman was a nurse at a local hospital and frightened about being in her first trimester of pregnancy while caring for people extremely ill with COVID-19.
She told Kate that she and her husband had planned the pregnancy, but that was before she knew that a devastating virus would seize the nation and force her to confront the meaning and mission of her life’s work in a way she had never imagined.
“She told me, ‘I know that what I am meant to do right now is to help other people through this terrible disease,’” Kate said. “She was really scared to be pregnant while having multiple exposures to the virus. She was also resolute in her decision to stand by her patients -- regardless of what it meant for her health.
"She had her abortion that day. I felt so grateful to able to help her.”
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