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Interested in getting involved with the Next Step Pregnancy Services’ Ministry?

January 22, 2023 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

Next Step Pregnancy Services is on the verge of huge changes in the fight for life! We’d love for you to be a part of it!

Check out the many ways you can serve! Whether it be boots on the ground volunteering in the clinic, or being a part of the Board, or simply giving – supplies, prayers, and yes, dollars.

All in the name of defending and supporting life – at all stages. Mothers, Fathers and Babies. Interested?

Check out the ‘Get Involved’ tab to see how you can!

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Sanctity of Life Sunday

January 19, 2023 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

Dear Friends of Next Step,

This Sunday January 22nd, 2023 is Sanctity of Life Sunday. The first SOL since the fall of Roe. Always a special day, its made even more so because life won and is continuing to win. How many times though, have you heard ‘the fight’s not over!’? Probably a lot. Me too. And its not wrong. You might say we won a significant battle but not the war.

Our day to day work her at Next Step makes a difference. I know it does. I live it every day! But the lies and slander flung at PRCs (pregnancy resource clinics) has increased 100 fold since January 2022 and the demise of Roe. And its only going to get worse. In fact this Sunday there are planned protests and rallies all over the country. Here in Washington there is one planned in front of our Next Step clinic on 64th Ave. West and 196th as well as in front of St. James Cathedral in Seattle. 

What do we do? I know in my discussions and defense of Next Step, of which I have been doing almost weekly now, a disturbing trend has arisen. The fact is there are a vast number of pro-abortion folks who will not simply be satisfied if abortion remains a viable option for many states but will only rest when we all agree that abortion, in its every form, is ok. Cease to call it wrong and join them in calling it right. 

Well we will not.  We refuse. We reject, rebuff, and abhor the act and will never affirm it to be of God and morally just.
But as we have learned this year and last, we cannot remain passive. “A best defense is a good offense.” – Sun-Tzu

So please do keep Next Step Pregnancy Services in your prayers this Sunday as we celebrate the first anniversary of the overturning of Roe as well as a day to contemplate and recognize the Sanctity of all Human Life.

~Heather Vasquez
audaces fortuna juvat

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Speak the Truth Even if Your Voice Shakes!

January 3, 2023 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

Guerrilla Warfare? Hit-and-Run scare tactics designed to misrepresent places like Next Step Pregnancy Services (again….)

“Washington Must Hold Crisis Pregnancy Centers Accountable” is the latest headline from the “Progressive Newspaper” (and I use the term loosely) The Stranger.

(penned by UW students in a segment tagged guest rant from 11/25/2022)

Let’s clear a few things up and please – be a spreader of facts – not fiction.

  • PRCs “divert clients from abortions by using coercive tactics and medical misinformation”
  • Every client comes into our clinic of their own free will. Our services are posted clearly, truthfully, and without embellishment.
  • The medical services we provide are legitimate procedures and tests performed by licensed medical professionals. Early diagnostic ultrasounds are used to determine viability and gestational age. End of. There is nothing false about that.
  • They position themselves strategically to target the young and in low-income communities.
  • Next Step Pregnancy Services is on the bus line and located conveniently in between the larger cities of Seattle and Everett. If strategic means ease of locale for those seeking care, then yes. Yes we do.
  • The young and low-income? Unlike “the other guys” we do not position ourselves directly inside schools of young kids. Additionally unlike “the other guys” we do offer free services and supplies because we recognize that having children and being pregnant can be an expensive time and we are here to help ease some of that inevitable financial strain.
  • PRCs are a “potential health threat because they delay clients from receiving prenatal care” and “intentionally lie to clients by incorrectly reporting their gestational age”.
  • To be honest is this “claim” worth even responding to? In 2022 alone Next Step medical professionals performed over 300 diagnostic ultrasounds and referred a similar amount to local Ob-gyns for further care. Almost 90% were first trimester (0-13 weeks). 80% of those clients intended to carry with the rest undecided and overwhelmed. As we all felt at one time or another didn’t we?
  • So many of the women coming into PRCs are simply there to obtain gestational age or to check on their pregnancy due to a history of previous miscarriage. They just need reassurance. We can do that. We do that.
  • “Most PRCs are affiliated and funded by evangelical Christian anti-abortion organizations and are increasingly funded by state and federal grants.”
  • That last one is laughable. Funded by Washington State? Next Step Pregnancy Services is not affiliated with any particular church or religious organization. We are an independent 501(c)3 funded by independent organizations and free individuals (like you!) . Next Step has never, nor will we ever, accept state or federal funding.
  • The fact that Next Step is filled with Christ-Centered staff and volunteers is purely a coincidence…..the protection of life and the vulnerable is an obvious by product of being a follower of Christ. Go figure.

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Giving Trees

December 30, 2022 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

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Christmas Letter 2022

December 14, 2022 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

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December 12, 2022 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

You may have seen the latest pro-abortion ploy. Large billboards welcoming women to our state to get their abortions. “You’re Safe Here” it says.

Well we have another take on this.

Dear Mom and Dad, You are safe here. Yes its hard and yes it can be overwhelming and scary. But you are not alone. There is help, compassion and encouragement.

Love, Washington PRCs.

https://nssupport.org/2022/12/12/2923/

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Thank you!

December 6, 2022 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

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Meet our new affiliate!

November 4, 2022 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

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Meet Rosie –

October 10, 2022 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

One very important concept those that espouse the pro abortion ticket drone on about is that those who defend life care not for the “mother”, saying that our position believes these women are nothing more than cattle or “breeders”.

That could not be further from the truth. The slogan “Love Them Both” has long been a cornerstone of our mission. Next Step Pregnancy values both mother and baby. Both are deserving of life, love, happiness, existence! We know that abortion harms women – we know this to be true – and one point of our mission is to minister to the women who come to us. Whether pregnant, at-risk, suffering from infant loss due to miscarriage or due to an abortion recently, or years before – Next Step serves.

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October is Respect Life Month!

October 5, 2022 by Heather Vasquez Leave a Comment

 “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” ~ G.K Chesterton

It is so easy to go along with the culture. It takes fortitude and fire to go against it.

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Our Mission

Next Step Pregnancy Services is dedicated to serving with compassion and dignity the immediate and long-term needs of those facing unplanned pregnancies. We promote the sanctity of human life in a non-judgmental atmosphere filled with love and compassion. It is our goal to empower those we serve to make healthy lifestyle choices now and in the future. The mission of Next Step Pregnancy Services is to protect the family in its entirety from conception to birth and beyond. Providing compassionate service and knowledgeable advice on pregnancy, parenting, health, and empowerment. Helping mothers to take on their sacred parenting role with confidence and love.

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