Episode 4

After I leave work, I go to sleep, I wake up a few hours later with the clinic calling me.

"Hello?"

"Hi, good morning? I'm calling from the Santo Amaro clinic, am I speaking with Helena?"

"Yes, it's me! You can speak." I say with a sleepy voice.

"We wanted to know if you would like to schedule an appointment to see if you are pregnant and also do the necessary exams to know if you can continue with the pregnancy if you wish, it will be fully covered by the clinic! You won't have to pay anything."

They're going to pay for everything? You can see they're scared to death that I'll sue them! That's why they're offering to pay my medical expenses.

"Yes, I would like to!" That will be better and more practical, anyway.

"When would you like to schedule the appointment?"

"I would like to schedule it for today at 4:30 in the afternoon!"

"Alright, have a good day." The woman ends the call and I go back to sleep.

I wake up with my sister calling me, time to go to the police station to give my statement.

When I get there, I'm directed to a room on the second floor of the police station, the investigator asks if I have a lawyer and I say no, so they prepare a public defender for me. After I give my statement, they ask if I want to sue anyone or the clinic, and with the lawyer's advice, I end up suing everyone involved.

When I finish at the police station, my sister and I go to the clinic, I take a pregnancy test and the 2-week pregnancy is confirmed.

When I receive the test result, I feel like it really hit me!

After the pregnancy test, I go to do the exams, but all I can think about at that moment is that there really is a baby growing in my belly.

After I do the exams, the doctor calls me into a separate room.

"Your pregnancy is high-risk! If you want to keep the pregnancy, you will have to be closely monitored throughout the entire gestation process, you will also have to change your medications! And about the fact that you weren't menstruating before getting pregnant, that happened because of stress! That's why your period was late." The doctor continues to look at the exams while speaking.

And I can only think of one thing, that this whole mess was because of stress? You've got to be kidding me.

Calm down! I need to stay focused. Doctor, if I continue with the pregnancy, will I d!e? I say anxiously, I should have asked Ana to come in with me.

"No! That's not what I meant. If you are monitored by doctors during the pregnancy and don't get stressed, the chances of something bad happening are low. But there will always be a risk!" His words should have calmed me down, but they only made me more scared.

I'm definitely going to get stressed and I'm going to d!e, I don't want to d!e. I'm going to have an abortion! I say decisively.

The doctor looks at me intently. Are you sure you want to do this? he asks.

"Yes! I am." I'm definitely not.

"Then you will need to file a petition in court to perform the procedure." The doctor explains that since I wasn't r@ped and I also didn't conceive the child of my own free will, I would have to ask for the judge's authorization to do the procedure. Since there is no law for my type of case and I have to show the exams proving that my life is at risk if I continue with the pregnancy.

I will also have to be accompanied by a psychologist, only then can I have the abort!on!

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