I understand and respect that not every person with the capacity for pregnancy identifies as a woman. I respect each individual’s gender identity, expression, and experience, and desire to be helpful and compassionate to all who need information about abortion or support.  As an expression of this concern, Choices Women’s Medical Center initiated the first Trans Health Care Program in New York State in 2016.

While I do make an effort to use gender-inclusive language (person/people/they/them/patient) throughout this website, I do of course use woman/women/girls. I do so in order to acknowledge the long history of gender discrimination targeting women, the specialized health care that we provide, our experience with hundreds of thousands of women using our services and the biological reality that only people with uteruses are biologically capable of becoming pregnant and carrying a fetus.