The Appointment: Ladies Who Want Babies Need Abortions Too
“A tour de force with immediacy, pain, laughs, hope and ultimately a call to action to improve how human we are to each other.”
“A raw storytelling of pregnancy loss and a glimpse at a woman’s experience dealing with the medical/insurance industry and how it affects us all.”
“How women, the only ones this affects, find themselves solely in charge of their care. The system fails us as it fails society.”
“The injustice that women experience in the medical field where they have to go through these traumas alone, scared, isolated and shamed.”
The US maternal health care system is rife with judgment of the very women they serve.
What if you’re deemed unacceptable?
What if you’re a pregnant woman who can’t even get a doctor’s appointment?
The Appointment is a 50-minute solo performance including details of pregnancy loss.
photos by: Chris Roberson
We meet Lena just after she has learned that the baby she has been eagerly anticipating for 17 weeks no longer has a heartbeat. Lena details the process she goes through as she tries to find health care. Because she has been with a midwife, she cannot find an ob/gyn to give her the life saving procedure she needs. Eventually, the only place she can receive care is at an abortion clinic. In telling her story, Lena paints the picture of a maternal health care system rife with judgment of the very women they serve, and leaves the audience asking what they can do to create change.