article_snippet: Carafem, which opens this week, has a no-frills attitude when it comes to informing people with what people provide.
article_snippet: Christopher Purdy, the clinic's president and founder, said Christopher Purdy, the clinic's president and founder was inspired to start Carafem after working more than a decade promoting family planning and HIV prevention in developing countries.
article_snippet: Carafem president and founder Christopher Purdy (pictured with health services vice president Melissa S. Grant) has begun a new Washington, D.C. abortion clinic that presents itself with a 'spa-like feel' It was there Christopher Purdy, the clinic's president and founder realized how much easier it was to get an abortion, sometimes as simple as walking into a pharmacy, in places such as Ethiopia.
article_snippet: Melissa S. Grant, Carafem's health services vice president, said  it was important for the clinic 'to try and present an upgrade, almost spa-like feel'.
article_snippet: the clinic ' will also only provide pharmaceutical abortions, meaning there will be no vacuum aspiration or surgical procedures available - this means that Carafem's clients cannot be more than 10 weeks pregnant.
article_snippet: Clients who walk into Carafem will receive counseling and go through 'basic tests' before Clients who walk into Carafem take the initial pill at the clinic '.
article_snippet: On it's website, Carafem says it's staff provides 'clear, non-judgmental and accurate information so you feel confident'. '
article_snippet: Anti-abortion activists don't believe Carafem's bold take is going to work.
article_snippet: National Right to Life President Carol Tobias believes people will find Carafem disgusting. '
article_snippet: We use the A-word' Carafem's founders aren't the only people speaking publicly and positively about abortion.
highlights_snippet: Carafem is a new abortion clinic opening this week in Washington, D.C.
  President Christopher Purdy said D.C.
  President Christopher Purdy was inspired to open clinic after D.C.
  President Christopher Purdy saw how much easier it was to get an abortion overseas .
  
highlights_snippet: Carafem will only provide pharmaceutical abortions so as to lower price .
  