Every time a woman chooses life we rejoice. For her, for her baby, and for life itself. And every time there is new life there are new possibilities, new challenges, new everything.
And that’s where Next Step comes in. At least, for some of it.
I came across this animated video that had been posted on X by, frankly, a group I tend to not always agree with. But I’m always one for respectful discourse and learning new things.
https://youtu.be/9Orm24xknIc?si=jA_dX_xUFmqGcIql
The video struck me and successfully hit upon what so many young women go through when faced with an unexpected pregnancy. And those are many of the young women who find our clinic.
In fact, to date this year we’ve had 23 women find our clinic with the intention of aborting their child. Not necessarily uncertain and seeking answers but women who were very aware of what is growing inside and set on their intention to terminate.
Women who are being convinced they are not ready, not experienced, not capable enough. Being convinced abortion is ‘your best option’, that ‘you deserve a future’. Every reason under the sun to simply make it go away. Those are the conversations our nurses are up against.
These are women and girls who have been surrounded by the devaluation of life long before motherhood was part of their story.
We need to change the story.
That is our vocation. That is the sacred calling of
Next Step Pregnancy Services.
