Sisters of Life

We at EMC cannot praise God enough for giving us the gift of the Sisters of Life for their love, support, prayers, and services for our clients. We send the Sisters of Life women who need shelter, maternity home, counseling, and post-abortive healing.

I met a girl coming out of Dr. Emily's who was post-abortive (feeling guilt, depression, anxiety over an abortion she had 5 years before) but felt like she had to get an abortion because she had no job and wasn't ready to have a child.

Well, turns out after talking with her in the sonogram bus she had a textbook case of severe depression - loss of motivation to work or even get out of bed, very tearful, tons of fatigue, very low self-esteem, feeling "empty," not looking forward to anything or finding joy in anything, lack of self-confidence, wondering if anyone would care or miss her if she died, other thoughts about death - and she's been like this since she was 13 years old.

Red flags everywhere that this is something an abortion won’t solve and probably just add to her suffering. I knew right away I needed to get a counselor for her about her depression, but someone I could trust who won't tell her she had to get an abortion.

Who could I turn to who would see her even though she had no money, who would love and support her through everything she needed, and who would be well experienced at counseling women who suffer from depression, a past abortion, and is experiencing an unexpected pregnancy right now?

Why, no one else than the Sisters of Life.

What made me so happy is she came in for another ultrasound 3 days later with the better machine we had, and she was already defensive, meaning being self-confident and motivated to counter what people say, about her baby. I mean literally she was always referring to it as "my baby," and was anxious (as in excited!) to show off her baby in the sonogram to her cousin she brought with her.

"Don't laugh at my baby! Don't call my baby stubborn for not posing for an ultrasound!"

It was music to my ears.

She had called the Sisters of Life to make an appointment and she was amazed at how nice and generous they were.

"The Sister I talked to - we talked for 30 or 45 minutes not even about their resourced, but just about me. I just let everything out and took her feedback and it was so nice. I can't wait until Monday for my meeting."

Not just music, an orchestra masterpiece for my ears.

Praise God!