Queens office

Inigio working diligently to schedule appointments for young women in need, at our office in Queens, NY.

Queens Office

Cata at our center in Queens.

Behind the scenes

My Mom used to say that good experiences never end if there is something that reminds you about them. In a few days well go back to Spain and this is going to be our last blog post. But, although we are leaving, we take with us all those wonderful things we have learnt this summer and all those babies we have saved.

This last post is not about what we have learnt, nor about the babies we have saved, but about who made our internship possible. Us, the interns, are the ones that write posts on the blog every week talking about what we are doing, and we are the ones that say every day after work “I saved a baby’s life today”, we are the ones being thanked by the people in the street when giving out pamphlets, and we are the ones being thanked by those Moms when their babies are born, we are the ones called… ‘heroes’. But we are not. The true heroes hide behind the scenes. With their day to day work, and their smiling face, they make our internship possible. They are the ones that should be called heroes, not just because of what they do, but because they do it without asking for anything in return. That’s the reason we are writing this post. We want to thank those heroes. Thank you Chris, Liz, Carmen, Kathy, Linda, Kathy, Wadiya for making all this possible

One outstanding father

When working for EMC pregnancy center you wake up every morning knowing that you are going to learn something new. But none of us could have known what we were going to learn a few days ago. We woke up like any other day and after having breakfast we headed to one of our Bronx centers. When we got to the subway we started talking about one of our latest saves. Then something amazing happened. A young man who was standing right next to us heard us talking about EMC and he told us his story. He told us how his girlfriend got pregnant two years ago and didn’t tell him. The reason she didn’t tell him is that the baby wasn’t his. That is the reason why she wanted and abortion. The day before she got the abortion he found out that she was pregnant and made her girlfriend realize that even if it wasn’t his baby, it was still a human being, and as such its life had to be protected. He went with her to one of the EMC centers and thanks to that she didn’t get the abortion. Now, after two years, they want to get married and live happily in the Bronx. When he finished telling his story we realize how much good its done thanks to EMC.

Because our job is the start of a better future

The 22sd of Septemeber, 1980 the New York Times quoted:

"I´ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has alredy been born" Ronald Reagan

Its been almost twentynine years since president Reagan was quoted in the New York Times. And twentynine years later our battle for life is as important as it´s ever been. After working for EMC Pregnancy Center I´ve realize all we can do to help thoose who can´t help themselfs, the unborn. I´ve had the opportunity to understand how important the protection of life is in todays´ society. But above all, I´ve had the opportunity to help dozens of women understand why a child is always a blessing and never a 'problem'. In a few days I´ll go back to my hometown in Spain, but I´ll never forget what I´ve learnt here, in New York City. With me I take all thoose wonderful feeIings that flooded my heart every time a women decided to raise her daughter/ son instead of killing her/him. And I take with me all the wonderful friends I met during my internship.

Thank you,

..."WHAT DO YOU THINK I SHOULD DO?"...

Her name is Renee, she is 20 years old and her life-experience hasn't been the nicest but as we know and we used to say...she is a survivor. As most of the girls that we talk to, she was thinking about abortion, as an easy way out, because her thoughts about her baby were that he/she was a problem.
It is important to say that she had the added problem of the "not sure who is the father" one, and apart from that none of them wanted the baby.
Cata and I, we talked to her, we made her see the procedure video and that was enough for her to start thinking about the real and good CHOICE...KEEP THE BABY.
The thing that really impressed me was that she seriously asked us what SHE HAS TO DO. The answer was clear, keeping the baby, but no because we say so, because everything is against that so un-natural procedure, abortion.
Her mother was there too, and she was supporting her, even tho she wanted her daughter to keep the baby, because when she was young and she got pregnant, her boyfriend also wanted her to abort that baby that has become into the beautiful girl that was next to her.
Thanks God, everything had a happy ending and this is one of the special cases that I will always keep in my mind and remember.
THANK YOU RENEE AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR REAL CHOICE.

All I've Learned From my Fellow Pro-lifers in Las Vegas

In my personal opinion and in my own experience, each week, even each day working for the pro live cause i´ve had a lot of amazing experiences. This week a few of the interns, I was one of them by the way, had the chance to go to a rally with prolifers from all over the country it was placed in Las Vegas. They were really surprise when they saw us apeared, i mean it was kind of surprise for them because it was a national rally, anyway they were really thankfull for all the work this organization is doing.

In this rally i´ve met a lot of interesting prolifers each one had a lot of things to teach and i was willing to learn, they were many important prolifers and we had the chance lo talk with almost all of them, we talk about many many things they had a lot of experience in this cause, and it was refresing hear all of their personal experience with the womans they had work with and their issues with the police related to the work they do for the cause, they had had many troubles with the law but they said that they wont stop doing what they are doing because they know that is the right thing to do.

One of the ¨work¨we did for the rally was being in front of one abortion clinic with all the hot 120 degres it was like being in the oven!, there we tried to stop the women who tried to get in side by talking. At the same time in freemont street we put a huge pictures about abortion, this street during the day it´s really busy, so we could reach more people to see it. We saw many diferent reactions in the peoples faces, and we talked with many of them. And we get many diferent opinions and stories.

If i have to say o even write a resume of Las Vegas rally it will be: ¨ An amazing experience of knowledge from the main important prolife activists in with i´ve learned many many things which i will never forget, not just for their bravery fighting against the abortion sometimes ending dealing with the court, i admire then for their strength that shows ever day by acepting all they failures and keep working every day giving their best¨.

Las Vegas

Just a few days ago I had the opportunity to attend a pro life convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. After working for a pro life organization in NYC it’s very rewarding to see how men and women, hundreds of people from around the world, are willing to save lives as we are in NYC. Thanks to the posters that we made, we were able to talk about abortion in Las Vegas streets. Now, its time for us, the pro life, to be proud of our ideas and our believes. Now, more than ever, we are happy to fight for this cause, the cause of human life. In Las Vegas I’ve had the privilege to see all the great goals that can be achieved thanks to pro life organizations. Because of that every day, every hour and every minute it’s important.

Cata and Inigo