Memorandum
Date: Feb. 11, 2010 *Revised on Feb. 15, 2010*
To: English 1311 7:30am Class
From: Breianna C. Russell
Subject: Reproductive Services in El Paso, TX.
This establishment is a known facility for abortion and other pre/post pregnancy options. Not only do they work in cooperation with other clinics but also with Adoption Affiliates, an adoption agency based in San Antonio, TX. As stated, beyond their abortion options Reproductive Services offers other services as follows:
Pregnancy, STD, and Cancer Screenings/Testing
Family Counseling
Educative Programs on Reproductive Health as well as Sexually Transmitted Diseases, etc.
Contraception and on-site Pharmacy
Medical and/or Surgical Abortion Options
Though faced with the undying attention from "Pro-life" objections this clinic operates smoothly. Not only is the office professional and warm but they provide various amounts of information on pregnancy, adoption, sexual health, and others through pamphlets, brochures, etc. Though like any other medical operation, they utilize medical documentation for patients security and accuracy. Much of each patients situation is kept completely confidential. Each woman that enters the clinic can enter with a sense of privacy and a trust that the staff have no means to judge them by. The staff is well trained and well educated, with the compassion that one would expect from a close friend. Now, that is not to say that everyone should take abortion lightly, with serious risks both emotionally and health-wise it must be taken with extreme sincerity. And this is just what Reproductive Services seems to convey, a balance of support and security with sincerity and knowledge on all options that they provide. Their goal, it would appear, is to do what they feel is right in supporting younger and older woman all over El Paso and Tulsa, OK.
Though I was only able to speak in a brief manor with one of the representatives at Reproductive Services, I found the information I received was suffice to what the clinic could disclose. In what I have learned, this office seems to keep a busy schedule (Hence my inability to speak in detail with officials therein). Unfortunately, in today's El Paso, young adult pregnancy appears to be on the up-and-up and to say that this situation will change dramatically in the near future is absurd. So clinics like Reproductive Services and Pro-life rallies/protests such as 40 Days for Life are not going anywhere anytime soon. To say the least, there will always be differences in opinion, both morally and subjectively. On one side of the proverbial street is a young woman, maybe whom was raped, unprepared for intercourse, or maybe just unlucky with today's forms of contraception. She has no others to confide in, her parents would disown her, maybe even kick her to the streets. How could she even begin to think of ways she might support a child, when she herself is still one? It is possible that she finds abortion or adoption to be the best option for her and her baby. Or, could it be, maybe this child she has so unexpectedly conceived was meant to be here for her at this time. It is possible that she could be taking away the life of an innocent mistake, and therefore would be making an unfair choice to decide whether this poor baby lives or dies. Or whether he/she has the right to know their rightful parents growing up. In either case the choice must be made by the mother. This is what Reproductive Services provides, choices.
Below is a link to a Pro-Life website, there is also a link above for 40 Days of Life as well as the Reproductive Services Clinic.
The link that follows is graphic, please keep in mind that this is meant for adult educational purposes and was found at the site linked:
The Silent Scream is an account for an abortion at about 11-12weeks. the link on the page will lead to the video established on the site.