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CHAPTER 33
WOMEN HELPING CENTERS
There are more people in the pro-life
movement who give their time, efforts
and support to helping the women than
there are trying to stop the killing.
I don’t believe it.
It’s true. In the U.S. there are almost 4,000 pregnancy help centers compared to about 3,000 right-to-life groups.
Are these those "fake clinics"?
This is a totally false charge by the abortion industry. There are really three types:
1. The great majority of these centers are there to help the distressed pregnant woman. The help is confidential. She needs a place to live? They find it. She must drop out of school? They arrange an alternative school. She needs medical or legal help? They help her get it. A job? It’s found. Counseling or just a loving shoulder to cry on? It’s given. Clothes for her or her baby? They furnish it.
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These centers simply meet whatever her needs are in order to help her carry to term.2. Madonna Houses: These are live-in homes while pregnant. Many allow her to return with or without her baby until she can leave and live on her own.
3. Post Abortion Centers: The best known are PACE, Open Arms, Rachel, WEBA (Women Exploited by Abortion) and American Victims of Abortion. These vary from structured offices to more informal post abortion counseling in other settings. This service is rapidly coming to be a regular part of the above pregnancy help centers nationwide.
How do I find such help?
Most commonly through a pro-life church or through your local Right to Life office. There are national directories also:
Heartbeat International
Attn: Margaret Hartshorn, Ph.D.
1213 S. James Rd., Second Floor
Columbus, OH 43227
(614) 239-9433
and
International Life Services
Attn: Sr. Paula Vandegaer
2606 1/2 W. 8th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057
(213) 382-2156
Who staffs these centers?
A typical center will employ one or two qualified social workers and have, in addition, 10 to 50 or more volunteers.
Further, about 98% of these workers will be female.
What is the sex ratio in the rest of the pro-life movement?
In Right to Life, women outnumber men about 2 or 3 to one. Counting both halves, there are about 4 women to everyone man, h a rd ly the male-dominated,
patriarchal movement that the media often holds it up to be.And I thought most women were pro-abortion —all the feminists are.
Not so. Most women are pro-life and so were the early feminists: "I deplore the horrible crime of child murder. No matter what the motive-love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent-the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed."
Susan B. Anthony, 1869
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