Is there a way to be kept anonymous? I found your blog through another tumbler user’s post. This is my story.
In 2007, I was going through many things. I was injured on the job, I was about to lose my apartment, and I was awaiting a period that never came. I was two months late, and started having pregnancy symptoms. At first, I thought nothing of it, because I was dealing with a lot of stress at the time. But then my breasts became sore. I was falling asleep in random places. I was also extremely emotional. I knew I needed a pregnancy test, and I knew that I couldn’t ask my family for help. So I did a search online to see if there were any clinics that offered free pregnancy tests. (I figured I’d give it a try, because in my city, they give out free condoms and birth control) I found a place that was in Midtown Atlanta, called Atlanta Care Center. I called the number listed, and was immediately connected to a woman who sounded caring, and concerned about my problem. I set up an appointment, and went in the next day. The place was in this high rise right in the middle of Buckhead. I remember stepping foot in that place. It had me fooled, because it looked like a doctor’s office. The lady behind the window handed me a clipboard and told me to fill out the information. It had standard questions you would find in a real doctor’s office. Things were ok until I got about three pages into the documents. ‘What is your religion?” “What is your parent’s religion?” I skipped over them, confused, but I didn’t think anything of it. About five minutes later, I was taken to the back and handed a cup and told to pee in it, and leave it in the bathroom and to enter a room to wait for the results.
Inside the room, there was a lot of religious material. Pictures, pamphlets, etc. There was also a tv with a built in cassette player. The lady who spoke with me earlier came into the room, and said I need to watch a video before I can see my results. Which is bullshit, because a pregnancy test doesn’t take hours to give you results. She pops in the video, and leaves the room. It was a pro-life anti-abortion video. I couldn’t watch all of it…
About 10 minutes later, the lady came into the room asking me what was my opinion on the video. I remember feeling disgusted, and misled. I couldn’t say anything, because at that moment, I felt horrible that a place would use a “clinic” to scare women into not having abortions during a vulnerable time in their lives. I wasn’t interested in having an abortion. I just was upset that these people were trying to force their views on others.
25 minutes into my visit, I still was not given my results. The lady had my documents I signed earlier in her hand, and started asking me about my answers. She spoke about ovulation, and other pregnancy related topics briefly before turning to religion. “You put down you don’t have a religion. Do you not believe in God, or the fact that Jesus died for your sins?” I was still thinking about the little bit of the video I was able to watch before crying and staring out of the window. I asked her what religion had to do with a pregnancy test? She started going on about how God knew me when I was in my mom’s womb, and that if I were pregnant, he would know my child as well. I got up to walk out of the room, but she told me that she would just give me the test results. She left the room, came back with the test, and told me I was pregnant. I was in complete shock. I had to go through all of this trouble to get “counseling”, which ended up being nothing more than a religious person trying to make me only consider having a baby, instead of an abortion. I quickly left the clinic. This is their website http://www.atlantacare.com/.
You're right, a pregnancy test only takes a few minutes. Many crisis pregnancy centers claim to use "lab-quality urine tests," but they're no more reliable than pregnancy tests you can get at the drugstore. They offer them so they can do exactly what they did to you.
Thank you for writing this, and I'm so sorry you had to go through it. I hope you got the help you needed.
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