April Lockley usually fields calls as a volunteer provider for the Miscarriage and Abortion hotline while taking care of her 3-year-old daughter at home. It can be tricky to juggle hotline calls while also entertaining her toddler, but Lockley believes her daughter understands what she’s doing on some level.
“She doesn’t really know the concept of an abortion yet. We’re working on the uterus right now,” Lockley laughed in a phone conversation with HuffPost. “But she knows that mama helps people.”
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Lockley, a family medicine doctor, abortion provider and medical director of the M+A hotline, mainly monitors texts and calls from her apartment in New York City. But she has fielded hotline calls from the back of an Uber, while grocery shopping and even a few times when she was getting her hair done. She’s usually on a four- to six-hour shift alone, during which she may field dozens of questions.
Some people are calling with simple questions: “Can I take ibuprofen after using abortion pills?” Others are in need of immediate support while managing
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