There are various tools and educational materials that we use in the counseling room to present medically accurate facts to a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy. What can be a more powerful tool than ‘Truth’? Recently, a young girl came into the counseling room. She was determined to get an abortion. We began to discuss her circumstances and her options. With her permission we discussed fetal development information, she kept saying: “Its so big, wow - its so big, I didn’t know that.” She was fascinated with the heart beating at only 21 days after conception. She said she could not get an abortion now that she knows how developed the baby is already. Seeing her child during the ultrasound confirmed that decision. She was overwhelmed with emotion, and I was fascinated to see a mother bond with her unborn child, before my eyes. She couldn’t thank us enough, and was hugging everyone she passed by on her way out the door. This is what she wrote on her evaluation: “They have a lot of information, and help you more than people think.”
by Natasha Kosachevich, Client Services Director
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