TRISHA

After realizing their daughter had become sexually active, Trisha’s parents took her to a local clinic to begin birth control. Despite starting birth control, Trisha became pregnant. Her parents now think she was either pregnant at the time she started birth control or she got pregnant shortly thereafter. Trisha is 14 years old and 25 weeks pregnant. Trisha’s father recently became disabled and hasn’t started receiving his disability payments yet. He is unable to work because of his disability. Due to the stage of her pregnancy, there are only a few clinics in the country that can perform the three-day procedure. The estimated cost of her abortion is $10,000. Trisha’s family got loans from every friend, family member, and resource they could find and amazingly raised $8,000. A call for help went out from her home state abortion fund to all National Network Abortion Fund members and the Lilith Fund responded with a promise of $200. We wish Trisha and her family all the best with her procedure.