Goodbye EMC, goodbye NYC!!!

Some interns have been saying goodbye to New York this last week and now I have my turn.

I don't believe that these two months are over. I still remember my first day in the Queen's office, my first contact with expectant mothers, my first counseling, how nervous I was with my poor english and the ignorance of not knowing what to say...

Now that I look back I'm proud to see how much I've worked with my co-workers to help as many mothers who needed help and understanding. Also I have to say that I've had a very good time and I really enjoyed the incredible city of New York.

The good team we made all the interns this year and the rewarding job of helping pregnant mothers has made I had one of the best summers of my life. 

I'm very glad I came here because I've learned a lot of things about abortion and also about american history and culture. For that reason I want to thank Chris for giving me this great opportunity and for trusting us to do this prolife work!

Mother care

This week I met in the Queen's office a women who 3 weeks ago was a turn around. I remained in contact with this mother after the sonogram and her final decision of keeping the baby because I though it was important to follow-up her in order to make her understand that despiste of her economic and familiar problems I was going to help her.

When we talked she told me how she was feeling about the pregnancy and what stuff she needed for her two more kids: diapers, kids clothes, baby bottles, etc. She has already a one-year-old baby boy and a 6-year-old girl.

I could see she was very glad and grateful that I could help her, and at the same time I was very happy because I felt useful.

We said goodbye to each other and we promised to keep in touch when I'd be back in Spain.

Helping this mother, although it had been the only girl I had helped, I think my work here has been worthwhile!

Follow up's

This past week in the Queen's office I had a 22 year old woman who came to have an abortion. She told me that she didn't want to have the baby because she was at school and she couldn't support it.

I explained to her the procedure of abortion and it's consequences and complications. She was very nervous and shocked because nobody had ever told her about these things. Before leaving the office she told me that she had to think about it because it was a lot of information in one single day and she had to reconsider everything.

I called her some few days later and for my surprise she said she would keep the baby! This helped me to realise that it importantto follow up with these women and see how they are, because this shows them that we really care. There is always hope, even if we have to wait a little.

The Lurray Caverns in Virginia

This week we are lucky enough to come to Virginia! We have visited many sights and museums, and
yesterday we went to see the Lurray Caverns. These are undergorund caverns which were discovered un the 
early 1990's. 


The tour was very interesting because we learned about how the stalactites and stalagmites formed over the
years. Some of the views were incredible; there were optical illusions and many of the rock formations 
resembled animals and famous sights, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa!

This trip is an amazing opportunity to discover and learn about America's history. The valuable work we've been doing back in New Yok can sometimes be overwhelming so these educational breaks are helpful.
We will go back refreshed and ready to continue helping mothers!

A turn around

Yesterday in the Queen's office came a 20 year old girl with her sister decided to have an abortion. She was really nervous because when she entered in the counseling room I realized her legs were trembling a lot.

I explained to her the surgical abortion’s procedure and its consequences or complications, and while I was talking I could see her face of distress.  Afterwards I put the video Choice Blues about the surgical procedure and within 2 min she started to cry saying: “I can’t do that”.

In the sonogram we couldn’t see very well the baby because she was about 6 and a half weeks but the heartbeat. The girl didn’t stop crying and her sister told her: “Don’t do that, I will help you with the baby not matter what it costs”. It was a really emotional situation because both sisters realized that it was a baby and not a mass of cells.

When the 20 year old mother was leaving I gave her a big hug making her see that we were there for everything she needs.

Una de las mejores experiencias en la oficina de Queens

Hoy ha sido un día emocionante para la oficina de Queens. Y todo gracias a una de las mujeres más valientes que hemos conocido durante nuestra estancia en NY. Se trata de una mujer que en un principio quiso abortar pero al final decidió tener a su hijo, el cual vino al mundo hace ya dos semanas. Ella tenía una situación familiar muy complicada así que decidió dar en adopción, un gesto que valoramos infinitamente.

Dos semanas después de la venida al mundo del pequeño milagro hemos tenido un reencuentro inolvidable de la madre biológica con los padres adoptivos. Todo ha sido emoción y lloros de alegría al presenciar los continuos gestos de cariño entre ambas madres y con el protagonista del día de hoy, el bebé.

Nos hemos quedado todos sin palabras por el gran ejemplo de la mujer que le ha dado la oportunidad de vivir a su hijo. Por eso este blog va dedicado a ella, porque una mujer así se merece no solo un aplauso sino una gran mención.

Every problem has a solution

Many times women have lots of economic problems and that's one of the reasons why they can't support their baby and they are undecided. 

For example, today in Queen's office we had a girl who was in school, had no job and she told us her parents wouldn’t support her if she had the child, so we offered her economic aid’s as a job, baby clothes, diapers, assistance for her and the baby the first year, etc. With these aid’s she felt better because she saw we were worrying about her. Now she has the economic problem almost solved so I hope she will think about it and keep the baby.

That’s one of the things I like about our pro-life work. Every problem has a real solution and with these aid’s we try to improve the circumstances of these women to help them to have their babies.

Dr. Emily's

Yesterday I went to Dr. Emily’s for the first time. We were 4 interns and our day began at 8 am in front of the abortion clinic.

Many women started to arrive so we approached to them to talk and give them some flyers. Around the morning lots of women entered to the clinic and although they ignored us we prayed for them because we never know if in the future these prayers would change their minds.

There was also a security guard who occasionally shouted and insulted us, but as our fight is without violence, we remain quiet in front of the clinic. This has helped me to understand and learn that we have to fight with peace because violence solves nothing.

The Pro-life Conference in Washington

Some of the EMC interns went to a Pro-life Conference in the city of Washington in which we were there for one whole day sharing time with many pro-life leaders from all around the United States.

The programme was plenty of diferent conferences about all kind of issues: the myth of the unwanted child, The pro-life movement in Congress, Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood, Adult Stem- Cells: Saving lives now, The right to life and social media 2012, etc. Lots of students and pro-life people participated in these sessions and showed a high interest in the topic, puting questions about the current situation of abortion in the Unite States.
It was encouraging to meet other pro-life leaders because that gives us more strenght to do pro-life work in our countries when we come back, because we know we are no longer alone. In Spain the pro-life work is very different than in the US, but having this great experience and learning about a new point of view i will be able to put it in practice in Spain while doing these kind of activities.

The conferences opened my mind and helped me to realize that in the pro-life work we are all together fighting for the same reason, and that encourages a lot!

Love the mothers

You can never judge the mothers. That’s one of the things I have learned with the counseling. The pregnant mothers come to the office not to be judged but to be understood and heard because many of them don’t want to have their babies due to her economic and social circumstances.

Once a person told me: “You have to love the mother, telling her she is the most important person in the world; because if you do that, she will save her son". These words have made me think lots of times about the love that these women need, the support and the feel that someone cares about them.

 This is certainly what we have to do, because those who do the counseling we don’t save the babies. We have no merit. Are the mothers, the braves, who save them!

Queen's office

In the Queens'office’s street there are 16 abortion clinics so, some days, when there are too many counselors we use to take turns to stay outside handing out some flyers. We also put a big TV with a video about abortion with very specific data: the way how the procedure is done, the number of abortions in the USA each day, month and year, its physiological and psychological consequences, etc.

People take our flyers and some of them stop in the middle of the street just to watch it. Sometimes we think that people don’t read them and we can discourage. And it’s in these cases when the prayer is also important because when our hopes are gone, God acts and changes some mothers' mind!

From Barcelona to New York

Hi I’m Beatriz, I’m 21 years old and I’m from Barcelona, Spain. I came to the United States of America as a volunteer to help pregnant mothers  who want to abort to change their minds and decide to keep their babies. A friend of my university in Spain told me about the organization of Expectant Mother Care and the work they do in the city of New York, the capital of abortion in the US. So I decided to spend 2 months of my summer in a beautiful city as NY, doing something useful for the others. And now that I’m here I don’t regret about anything.

I'm doing counseling in the Queens office and I have already had a really close contact with some expectant mothers. I wish that this time in NY I can do a good job with these mothers that are waiting for our help and our friendship!