At Human Coalition, we know that in order to save preborn babies, we must first help rescue the parents from making an abortion decision.
That’s why we share compassion, truth, grace, and help with abortion-minded parents and other decision makers involved with an unplanned pregnancy. Whether it’s an agent at our in-house Contact Center or a caregiver at one of our seven Human Coalition women’s care clinics, the members of our team work to ensure that every woman feels heard without judgment or condemnation.
We share compassion, truth, grace, and help with abortion-minded parents. Click To TweetOnce we understand the root of a woman’s fear about having a baby, we then create an individualized care plan with real-life, practical solutions.
Recently, our Pittsburgh team met with a young woman named “Kara” who was abortion-determined. She visited our clinic with her boyfriend and her mother. As we met with Kara, provided an ultrasound, and educated her about her pregnancy, we were also able to talk with her boyfriend and her mother. As it turned out, only Kara wanted the abortion.
However, once we listened to Kara’s reasons to abort – unemployment, lack of insurance, financial limitations – our Continuum of Care Coordinator was able to build an individualized plan that would assist her in all of these areas. Both Kara’s mother and Kara’s boyfriend were encouraged by the plan. And in the end, all three decided to choose life. Kara has since given birth to twin boys!
This is just one of many examples where a family’s change of heart ultimately rescued a child – or in this case, two children – from death in the womb.
People think that abortion is here to stay in America. I don’t believe that’s true. Click To TweetI often talk with people who believe that abortion is here to stay in America and that it’s impossible to end it in our lifetime. I don’t believe that’s true. Many, many times parents will choose abortion due to ignorance, pressure from others, or panic. Yet, when they are given accurate information and a nonjudgmental place to express their concerns, and when they’re connected to others who can genuinely help them – they very often choose life.
One aspect of Human Coalition’s approach that sets us apart in the pro-life movement is our Continuum of Care, as described in Kara’s story. When we dismantle the various obstacles that would prevent a woman from choosing life – financial, material, or emotional – and replace them with practical solutions such as assistance with obtaining affordable health insurance, or job résumé enhancement, or even housing assistance, we also replace fear with hope. And hope is one of the greatest motivators for choosing life.
Another reason why I believe abortion will be ended in our lifetime is because as we rescue children from abortion, we often end a vicious cycle of abortion that plagues a family’s legacy. I can’t tell you how many of our clients have a history of abortion in their family. In many cases, it’s a generational sin that has been passed from grandmother to daughter to granddaughter. But if we can speak life into a family and rescue the next at-risk baby, then we can restore a family legacy and protect future generations.
As we rescue children from abortion, we end a vicious cycle that plagues a family’s legacy. Click To TweetWe’ve also discovered that our former clients make some of the most effective advocates for LIFE. In fact, Kara and her mother now volunteer at our women’s care clinic to help other abortion-determined women understand there are options besides abortion.
Human Coalition is deeply committed to the unborn, but we are also deeply committed to the family. And if you reach a family with the proper help at the proper time, then you may be able to save not only the baby, but also a family’s legacy.
God bless you Brian and all your workers. A prayer I was given once and prayed today, this one specifically for those that are fighting to save babies, the others for the babies, and all the accomplices of abortion: Again we beg Thee, O Lord, to hear our prayer, and… Read more »
Thank you, Lynne, for those prayers.
I was glad to read your e-mail. As you obviously know, there are many who accuse pro-lifers of really being pro-birthers. This claim holds that pro-lifers are only interested in getting the baby born. In this scenario, new mothers are told that “they are on their own” in spite of… Read more »
Thank you for all your hard work. Praying for you and your ministry
I did some research on payscale.com and found that the average PP employee earns $48,000 a year. It’s claimed that PP provides ‘vital services’ to underserved communities. ‘VITAL’ to me means ‘LIFE & DEATH’. One can say that PP provides ‘LIFE & DEATH’ services in that abortion provides their staff… Read more »
There are untold numbers of families who want to adopt newborn babies. So few of them are available at that age, few such families ever know the joy of holding the tiniest to their hearts. Now, my grandson was born at 23 weeks, weighed a pound and a half, is… Read more »
“There are untold numbers of families who want to adopt newborn babies.” The thing about that kind of adoption is that it’s often rooted in covetousness (which we Christians know is against the 10th Commandment), particularly towards another person’s child, often because of the potential adopter’s infertility. What I’m saying… Read more »
We are a Right To Life family. God has blessed us with 4 children. Two are our natural born children and two are adopted. We lost 3 children before they were born. We know they are in heaven waiting for us. May our Lord richly bless you for saving our… Read more »
What a hopeful article, very informative and well written ! With one saved child, you CAN break an entire generational sin pattern of abortion and restore hope to not just one family but many! Thank you for all that you do, the seeds you plant are indeed growing and will… Read more »
I honesty believe that abortion is very wrong. GOD did not mean for children to be killed in this fashion or any fashion for that matter. I do also see that offering assistance in financial ways can help relieve the fears of a pregnancy. I do hope that you are… Read more »
So true. We have to help the families too and children who are already here
Thanks Brian for opening my eyes to your way of helping pregnant women make a decision to let the baby live by showing them that your organization will remove the factors of concern for providing food and healthcare, providing housing and helping financially and helping with job possibilities. I am… Read more »
This blog is well articulated and is very practical!
Your consideration of WHY a mother would consider abortion and making an individualized care plan is perfect and right and good!
Thank you for these tweets, too!
Excellent article. I have been a pro-life advocate for 40 years and have heard the criticism of only caring about the baby all too often. Those who make such an accusations are not informed about the many efforts that have changed lives as in this story. These stories need to… Read more »
Your comments on helping families are certainly well written. I remember how in the pre-Roe v. Wade era as a medical student I saw women who came to the public hospital for treatment of incomplete septic illegal abortions. Can we blame lack of support for families back in that day… Read more »
I honestly don’t think you are going to end abortion in the America’s but have it much reduced is a very good cause and that means removing the need for abortion. whether physiological or physical. and that means making abortion like unto that of murder where people are not willing… Read more »
There is no such thing as a “need for abortion”, no matter what the circumstances are.
This is a wonderful testimony of the fruit from efforts to stand for the truth – and also reveals how ignorance of available support systems and feelings/fears of one’s own inadequacy feeds into the choice for abortion. You also make a very valid point about breaking this generational sin in… Read more »
This is the first time I have heard of Human Coalition, I applaud the work you do, and support you. Unfortunately, most of my friends support abortion. They claim that once the baby is born, he/she and the parent/s are neglected which leads to child abuse. Other than saying to… Read more »
Hi Michele – I’m going to challenge your friends’ premise and your response to it. Here is how I would respond: 1. Ask them to provide evidence that at-risk babies are born into abusive situations. It’s not relevant to the morality of abortion, but it removes you from having to… Read more »
Why is it not murder to kill the babies?
Because the 1973 Roe v Wade case (along with Doe v Bolton) made it legal to kill preborn children. Morally, abortion is murder. Legally, unfortunately, it is not.
Evidently some believe that when a baby is born it passes through a magic soul dispensing portal and then becomes human. Before that it must be ok to kill it.
Not only should women see their ultra sound but they should watch videos of abortions in the various stages of life. I have friends who agree with abortion in the cases of Rape or incest but I ask them, “what did that baby do to cause him or her to… Read more »
To: Harry L. Burley Sr. You can tell them you are extremely sad about the circumstances of their baby’s conception, but that they have an opportunity to be better than the person who hurt them by refusing to hurt someone else. They can be a responsible mother by parenting their… Read more »
As a CSA survivor and rape survivor I can help with that. Although in my life a pregnancy did not occur in those instances; I can say that if it had having an abortion would not lessen the pain I had then or have now to this day. There are… Read more »
Hi Brian, I am thrilled to hear about how you helped this couple become a family with the twin boys. I think it’s wonderful that Human Coalition is counseling young couples, helping to meet some of their needs and in the long run, sparing them a great deal of guilt… Read more »
Thanks Linda. Incidentally Norma McCorvey (Roe) actually never had an abortion. She spent the latter part of her life fighting to undo the damage of Roe v Wade. She passed way just a few weeks ago.
I believe you are doing wonderful work,which is God’s heart.I am sure for every infant saved the Lord is well pleased!! God bless you sir,and I pray for God’s continued anointing and favor over every endeavor…….In JESUS name……
Amen!!
I thank God for you and the work you do. I have read that when a woman sees her baby in an ultrasound it is more likely she will chose life. God bless you.