27, Farm Worker
Grant County, WA
An undocumented immigrant who recently arrived in Washington, Araceli is set to begin a seasonal position on a farm in Grant County. Before her first day, she learns she is seven weeks pregnant.
When she moved to Washington, her partner stayed behind in California, and the two of them had not planned on starting a family for a few more years.
Because she doesn’t have a stable income, Araceli doesn’t know how she’ll pay for her procedure or the travel to a clinic from the rural area where she lives and works.
A woman she lives with tells Araceli to visit a mobile medical clinic that stops in a nearby town once a week.
At the mobile clinic, Araceli enrolls in Apple Health (Washington state’s version of Medicaid) and gets information for the Northwest Abortion Access Fund (NWAAF).
Araceli makes an abortion appointment with the Planned Parenthood in Wenatchee, then calls the NWAAF Helpline to see if they can help with her travel.
NWAAF offers support with travel logistics related to her abortion appointment but Araceli is fearful she’ll lose her job when she takes off the extra time off for her aftercare.
A volunteer drives her to and from her abortion appointment but when she gets home, Araceli learns her job was given to someone else.
Araceli is devastated that she had to get an abortion alone without her partner and from losing her job. She finds herself struggling emotionally.
When the mobile clinic arrives in town again, a community health worker offers Araceli a copy of the Abortion Resolution Workbook in Spanish. Araceli reads through the guide and starts to work on healing from her experience.
