Once upon a time (part 1)

The other day I was at the Brooklyn office and I was amazed by the quantity of women that we saw. The modus operandi there is is a little bit different than the rest of the clinics that we have, because we do group counseling at the very beginning and then we have individual counseling. Linda, the woman that runs the office there told me and the rest of the women her story. It was pretty amazing and shocking, it helped the girls there to change their minds.

One of the girls that came there was 16, she was pregnant and she did not want to keep her baby, I was gonna start telling her the side effects of abortion and the importance of keeping a life when Linda told us "when those young girls came here looking for abortion, we need to let them know that this is about them, we are here to help them, they do not need to hear about babies yet, they need someone that listens to them and makes them feel safe, comfortable and them they would stay and listen to everything".

That was really beautiful, I realized that in EMC we care not only about the babies in the womb but about their mothers; it's because of them that we are here working, we want to make their lives better, to make them realize how wonderful and full of meaning their lives could be.