Jennie Nwokoye

Doing Research

I was looking on the internet for stats on abortion and I came across this.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348649,00.html

The Cost of Abortion

Our Brooklyn crisis pregnancy center is in the same building as two abortion clinics. Coming from a lunch break one day, I saw two Paramedics carrying a woman out of the building on a stretcher. I ran up stairs to tell Linda the Center Director what I had seen. She immediately ran to the sixth floor to find out what was going on. Ten minutes later she returned with the details. The young lady being rushed to the ER was having an abortion and in the process the doctor hit an artery. The complications to abortions are so many! Women are sadly not aware of these risks. If only this young lady known ... maybe she wouldn't have had to go through this ordeal. This was a preventable injury.

An emotional turnaround

Today i went to Linda's and I counseled a girl by the name of Janessa. She came in today with the mindset of having and an abortion. When I asked her why she said,"Me and mother don't get along.. we haven't since i was little and she said that if i was to have a baby she would kick me out... my dad doesn't support having a baby out of wedlock." I told her that my mom put me through a lot of things.. things that I'm not able to write about on this blog and i also told her that having abortion wont make things right between you and your mom. We started to cry together. in her heart she knew it was wrong. I told her about the help that we would be able to offer her and she was so excited. She finally said that she was going to keep the baby and that she promised. I took her word. My heart was filled with joy. I certainly did not do this on my own.

It's a Woman's Choice, He Said

I just happen to be walking around the Brooklyn Street Mall when a man stopped me. He invited me to join him for lunch, and so I did. He spoke of his life, how great it was,and how he loved it so much! During the course of our conversation the question of my job came up, and I told him of my work. He remembered the time when he went to our office with a girl who was pregnant by him. The baby unfortunately was not saved. I asked him why he let her have the abortion. He told me, "Its the woman's choice." I said, "Do you know, that if your mother had the same mind set that you have now. She could have aborted you and you wouldn't have the joy of telling me how great your life is." He suddenly kept quiet.

Food For Thought

"When a woman has an abortion, she is still a mother, but of a dead baby"
"You never know what womb holds the chief"
"A woman who has on abortion changes her destiny"
"having an abortion wont change the bad situation your in now"
"A baby in the womb cannot run from a knife"

my first week

this is my first week being here so i havent seen any action yet, but while i was at liz's place, i watched a video which was in spanish but what i understood from it was that the guy in the video was talking about how an abortion was done. When i was about to leave, a young girl came in, i think she was 17 years and she was there for an abortion ...... i was so surprised about how people just walked in seeking an abortion. Tomorrow im going for training so hopefully i get hands on training on how things are done here