“Pregnant? We can help.”

The Uncertain Hour

Marketplace

Government, News

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When Brandi David discovered she was pregnant, she knew she wanted an abortion. Brandi was a graduate student at the time and didn’t feel ready to be a mother. She wasn’t sure where to go for help. But then she remembered a billboard at a busy intersection in South Bend, Indiana that she had driven by many times. It said: “Pregnant? We can help.” So she called the number.

What happened to Brandi next… well, that’s what brings us to Indiana–the last stop on our cross-country trip where we investigate how states spend federal welfare dollars.

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Welcome back to “The Uncertain Hour,” the Wealth & Poverty desk’s new podcast hosted by Senior Correspondent Krissy Clark.

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0:00.0	I've just pulled into the parking lot of a CVS pharmacy to look at a billboard.
0:09.8	So there it is.
0:11.8	There it is.
0:12.8	In all its bright pink background with the close up of a concerned semen woman looking
0:18.1	into the distance.
0:19.1	It says pregnant.
0:20.7	We can help.
0:21.7	Then it gives their phone number and at the moment just says women's care center free
0:24.7	ultrasound's free pregnancy tests.
0:27.2	The person showing me this billboard is Brandy David.
0:30.0	26 years old works as a property researcher at a title company.
0:34.4	And after driving by this billboard hundreds of times in her life, one day two years ago,
0:40.3	she called that phone number when she found herself pregnant and needing help.
0:45.4	My first that was, oh my god, damn it, no.
0:48.6	Just all of those things, just all at once.
0:50.3	I had been using protection and I was just like, why?
0:53.2	Why?
0:54.2	Why?
0:56.2	Brandy was in her first year of graduate school, barely making ends meet already.
1:02.1	And she says she immediately knew she was in no position to have a baby.
1:06.2	I couldn't afford it.
1:07.2	I was not dating the gentleman in question.
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