Do you remember your mother or maybe a teacher, with hands on her hips, asking you, “Was that necessary?” Most of us can remember an incident or two (or more) when that happened and cringe. It was clear that whatever we did was entirely unnecessary.  

In your mind, what do you believe is absolutely necessary? Most of us would say the air we breathe, water we drink, food we eat, and shelter from the elements. In our modern society, we would add “necessary” utilities, like electricity, air conditioning and heating, transportation, cell phones, and of course, the Internet.  

Emotionally, hope is totally necessary. Without hope, we crumble, losing purpose and the desire to exist. Bernard Williams once said, “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”     

We need hope in order to live. Unfortunately, many women lose hope when facing an unexpected pregnancy. A woman often feels trapped, ashamed, isolated, and overwhelmed. It appears that she has no way out of her circumstances. Our culture insists that abortion is the “necessary” answer. She has several choices, none of which are easy. She can choose either to:  

• Carry the baby to term (which may seem impossible financially, physically, and emotionally). 

• Place the baby with an adoptive family (an extremely difficult journey). 

• Abort her baby (which often seems like the easiest answer—like a reset button to get back to life as it was before the pregnancy). 

Moms choose abortion because they think they have no other choice. Even the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute has admitted that this is true, saying:  

[Q]ualitative data from in-depth interviews portrayed women who had had an abortion as typically feeling that they had no other choice, given their limited resources and existing responsibilities to others. 

In fact, 76% of abortion-seeking women tell Human Coalition that they would prefer to parent if their circumstances were different. They think abortion is necessary because they don’t see any other viable path forward.  

In that case, our focus must be on changing her circumstances. To free her from the overwhelming conditions that are, in fact, solvable.  

Whatever is making her feel that she has no other choice than abortion needs to be recognized as solvable. There is nothing that can’t be resolved with the support of compassionate care and love as well as tangible support. On a large scale, these things would cause mothers to view abortion as unnecessary. This happens when we REACH moms seeking an abortion, RESCUE the mom and child from the tragedy of abortion, and RESTORE the entire family to stability. 

And that is our blueprint at Human Coalition.  

Through innovative online marketing strategies, we reach women planning to abort their child at the time when it matters the most. We talk to moms to find out what circumstances are driving them toward abortion, and then we work to address those circumstances.  

We connect moms with a nurse, a local pregnancy center, and a local church community to help cover her spectrum of physical and emotional needs.  

When women are met with compassionate care in their time of crisis, they begin to experience HOPE and realize that abortion is entirely unnecessary. 

“Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.”  

Billy Graham

This loving care leads to transformation. The mom and the baby in her womb are restored to stability and able to go forward as a family with a stable future.  

Abortion is absolutely unnecessary, yet it has taken the lives of more than 66 million children in America over the past 50-plus years. More than 2,800 babies are aborted every day in America. That’s equivalent to killing all the children in six elementary schools every single day.  

Every human life is valuable and deserving of protection. We are committed to finding new and better ways to rescue children from abortion and provide compassionate care for women facing unexpected pregnancies.  

Together we can build a culture of life where every child is welcomed and valued, and where no mother experiences the pain of feeling that abortion is necessary in her situation.  

Join us as we lift up and support moms in unexpected pregnancies.  

“Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.” —Brother Lawrence