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NBC NEWS has a feature on European women talking about what it feels like to have an abortion in Europe.
See excerpt:
'No One Was Friendly'
Meredith Vass found out just weeks after arriving in London to study abroad that she was pregnant.
"I was super freaked out, obviously all alone, 20 years old," she said.
The American decided that she wanted an abortion but "didn't even know where to begin" in the foreign city.
"This was before there was much Googling going on," explained Vass, now 35.
Vass said she tried going to the clinic at the university where she was studying and "they were just terrible."
"I remember crying hysterically in the school's clinic next to this woman in the waiting room and her saying, 'Sorry, I can't help you.'"
It took "weeks" of calling numbers linked to the state-run National Health Service but Vass ultimately found found a free clinic where she could get the procedure performed.
Click here to read more
SOURCE: NBC NEWS
See excerpt:
'No One Was Friendly'
Meredith Vass found out just weeks after arriving in London to study abroad that she was pregnant.
"I was super freaked out, obviously all alone, 20 years old," she said.
The American decided that she wanted an abortion but "didn't even know where to begin" in the foreign city.
"This was before there was much Googling going on," explained Vass, now 35.
Vass said she tried going to the clinic at the university where she was studying and "they were just terrible."
"I remember crying hysterically in the school's clinic next to this woman in the waiting room and her saying, 'Sorry, I can't help you.'"
It took "weeks" of calling numbers linked to the state-run National Health Service but Vass ultimately found found a free clinic where she could get the procedure performed.
Click here to read more
SOURCE: NBC NEWS