A New Role in a Time of Crisis
Many of the pregnancy care centers in outlying Mississippi and Louisiana areas that were not destroyed became para-hospitals in the days following Katrina.
“In our local maternity wards mothers are delivering in the hallways,” wrote Dorothy Wallis, director of Care Pregnancy Center of Baton Rouge in an email September 2. “The hospitals are sending their post-delivery patients to us for care. The American Red Cross sent eight families today.
“The Crisis Pregnancy Centers of Baton Rouge are now responsible for meeting the needs of refugee women and children. Caring to Love Ministries and the Care Pregnancy Clinics are quickly meeting the demands of many of the families seeking the much-needed assistance.”
Going Head-to-Head with Sellers of Death
It was the pregnancy resource centers that hospitals knew to call for help in the crisis, certainly not Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood was too busy to help hospitals anyway. It hit the ground running after Katrina — running to shelters to distribute free morning-after pills and offer free abortions to victims of the storm, attempting to further victimize them.
Apparently, there were many, many rapes after the hurricane in both downtown New Orleans and the Superdome. I'm told that guards had to set criminals loose from the jail, which is one reason why there were such numbers of predators prowling around right after the storm.
The women raped — most likely the poor — were extremely abortion vulnerable to begin with. But being rape victims will compound that. So in the weeks and months to come, there will be a specialized need to care for them.
It will be several weeks before this new set of crisis pregnancies becomes known. Planned Parenthood is gearing up to offer these victims their death-dealing “services.” If we are to save the innocent babies and help these ravaged women regain dignity and find healing, the pregnancy resource centers will need to be just as mobilized and equipped.
Please Do Not Overlook This Need
Money and supplies are now pouring into Louisiana and Mississippi to help churches, the Red Cross, and even the animals of New Orleans.
But the pregnancy resource centers have been overlooked to this point. An online fund established by Caring to Love Ministries (www.ctlm.org) to distribute rebuilding funds to the destroyed and damaged pregnancy resource centers has only received $5,000 to date.
A plan to send three mobile medical units into the devastated areas for pregnancy medical care, counseling, and ultrasounds is also dependent on funds.
“We need the mobile units badly. As the trees are removed and as the soldiers move in to those communities, we need to have our mobile units move in as well,” said Wallis.
Medical mobile units will give pregnancy resource centers the ability to compete with Planned Parenthood at ground zero. “I will walk side by side with Planned Parenthood into the devastated area,” said Wallis. “We have something to give they do not. We offer love and compassion. We have the opportunity to give forth life. Devastation and death have already arrived.”
Please give generously to the Care Pregnancy Clinic Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief Fund at www.ctlm.org.
“What an opportunity we have been given to serve,” said Wallis, “to be put in a place for such a time as this that God would entrust us to provide for these people.”
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Jill Stanek fought to stop “live-birth abortion” after witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois. In 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Jill is a regular columnist for World Net Daily and her blog is Pro-life Pulse.
