Sharing secrets with my grandmother

“I feel bad …” Amy whispered, then paused.

I’m a family medicine resident, and I was doing my gynecology rotation, which involved spending a few days at a Planned Parenthood facility. This was my first day. I’d been assigned a patient to shadow: a young woman named Amy, who was here to have a first-trimester abortion.

I’m a fan of Planned Parenthood’s work providing high quality, affordable contraceptive and gynecological care. In …

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