Welcome to Aid For Women. We provide regular aspiration curettage abortions awake or
asleep (by Conscious Sedation with Versed) or medical abortions by pill with some restrictions.
Please see our pricing page.
Before you can schedule an appointment, you will firstly need to receive or
print our 24-hour form (o en espaņol 24-horas forma).
24-hour Informed Consent forms from other clinics cannot be used here. After receiving OUR
24-hour form, call us during normal business hours to schedule your appointment.
Finally, you will need access to (but not necessarily have read) some booklets that the Kansas
Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) publishes and distributes. We Providers are expected
to mail the 8-ounces of literature, but we don't mail
them anymore. The booklets are available here, at Kansas libraries, obtained by calling KDHE at 1-888-744-4825 and requesting
a copy be mailed to you, or you may view them on our website to meet the legal intent of the law. The booklets are
titled "If You Are Pregnant" and "If You Are Pregnant: Directory
of Available Services." The first booklet is 21 pages filled with color pictures of pregnancies at every 2 week stage.
The second booklet is a 47-page directory of abortion alternatives. On the day of the abortion you will sign a State-required
form ("Certificate of Informed Consent - Abortion") stating that you have received copies of this literature.
Our staff understands that an abortion is a difficult decision, and your desire
for privacy. Private rooms are used for medical preparations, counseling, the procedure. Our
surgery recovery is done in a 3 patient room. We can provide these services at less cost than
other clinics. Our prices include sonography (ultrasound pictures) to determine pregnancy dating
counted by weeks from Last Menstrual Period (LMP) using the Queenan sonography scale, the
Conscious Sedation medicine (midazolam and nalbuphine), and either a prescription for
preventative antibiotics or the antibiotics themselves. Extra costs would be if you have the
Rh-negative blood-type (15% have A-, B-, O-, or AB- ), in which case you must pay for and
receive a Rhogam injection prior to the abortion.
The Follow-Up visit is extra but minimal cost and consists of a pelvic exam
and urine pregnancy test (uCG) or it can be done with your own physician.
Conscious sedation is less than General Anesthesia (GA, completely asleep, uses a
ventilator), but more than Local anesthesia (numbing the cervix with lidocaine only). Unless you
have a high narcotic or alcohol tolerance, our Conscious Sedation should put you to sleep and you
will not remember anything. Most of our patients choose this option. For those who are afraid of
losing control by going to sleep, or who have tolerated abortion under local anesthesia before,
choose local anesthesia. Local anesthesia numbs the cervix with lidocaine but it does not stop
the temporary cramping pain in the uterus, nor silence the suction machine. Recovery time is
usually less with local anesthesia which is one reason why some clinics only offer Locals. If you
have had birthing labor before, or your pain tolerance is high, locals are tolerable.
We have a licensed physician and are a member of the
National Abortion Federation.
ProLifer's claim, without sufficient proof, that abortions cause problems in an
attempt to scare pregnant women away from an abortion. Most recently,
they wrongly claim abortion
causes breast cancer (
abortion does not increase risk of breast cancer), wrongly claim
abortion causes post-abortion-stress syndrome (PAS)(PAS does not exist 1, 2, 3),
emotional scarring and relationship problems (similar to PAS),
they wrongly claim future infertility (abortion does not cause infertility 4,
5, 6),
and other claims, none of which are caused by abortion. They
avoid talking about real post-partum depression (baby blues) which has a higher severity when
you carry full-term, infertility from sexually transmitted diseases and childbirth
complications, pregnancy-related diabetes, pre-eclampsia kidney shut-down leading to possibly
fatal high blood pressure and toxemia, that pre-existing relationship problems are harder to
solve when unwanted childen are born adding yet another factor to deal with, that poor women
(unlikely to have a stable partner willing to financially support her during pregnancy, much
less beyond birth) with no health care are those at most risk of dying (~30 per 100,000 births),
and are most likely to get an abortion, whereas wealthier women (most likely with a stable
partner who will support her during her pregnancy and beyond) with good health care are least
at risk of dying (~9 per 100,000 births) and most likely to continue their pregnancy, the
U.S. national average being 12 deaths per 100,000 births
CDC. Abortions cause
less than 1 death per 100,000 abortions
CDC.
ProLifer's circulate the claim
7, 8,
9
that rape cannot produce a pregnancy because the women's trauma (mental and physical
injury) from the rape will inhibit ovulation, which is insulting and not true. One has
to laugh at the mental gynastics to which the proLifer's go through because they want a
simpler, black-and-white-without-shades-of-grey world in which to live.
Abortion may be difficult but it is better than birthing an unwanted child, and that
choice is for the pregnant woman, not you, not me nor anyone else to decide. Adoption is
a choice also, and can be just as difficult to choose. Cheers to the men who have the
courage to support women who already have children from other relationships. Every Child
a Wanted choice. proWoman proHealth proChoice!
