Pregnancy and Post Abortion Resources
If you are in need of specialized support for pregnant and post-abortive women, the following helpful links are provided to assist you. The Nurturing Network does not control or endorse the content, information or services offered on these sites. They are offered as a convenience in your search for individualized resources that will hopefully meet your unique needs.
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America’s Pregnancy Helpline provides education and information about the things most women want to know concerning pregnancy. The site is particularly geared for teenagers and young adults. Call 800-672-2296. |
Birthright offers love, friendship and support to pregnant women and helps them to make a realistic plan for the future. Call 800-550-4900. |
Bethany is here when a woman is pregnant and doesn't know where to turn; she can always connect with Bethany. They help expectant women every year - of all ages and backgrounds. Bethany is also an adoption agency whose care extends to women and families struggling with unplanned pregnancy and infertility. Call 800-BETHANY. |
Care Net is an affiliation of pregnancy care centers that provide support compassion, hope and help to women and men facing pregnancy decisions. Their “Find A Pregnancy Center” online research tool is easy to use. Call 877-791-5475. |
The Catholic Charities network is made up of numerous independent, local agencies and institutions across the nation. Their community-based programs and services provide help and create hope for those in need regardless of religious, social, or economic backgrounds. Headquarters 703-549-1390 |
CoAbode.com provides resources for single mothers including housing, moving, single parenting, child care and mothering in order to make parenting a child alone easier, healthier and more secure. Web contact form: http://www.co-abode.com
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Gabriel Network volunteers offer housing and other practical resources for pregnant women in Maryland and Washington, DC through teams of church based volunteers. Call 800-ANGEL-OK. 800-264-3565
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Good Counsel provides homes and hope for mothers and babies. Their life skills program is designed to reduce homelessness. Call 800-723-8331.
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The Gladney Center is a program offering adoption and maternity services for children, adoptive families and birth parents. They operate both domestically and internationally. Call 800-GLADNEY. 800-452-3639 |
The Heidi Group connects girls and women facing an unplanned pregnancy with a range of resources in Texas. Call 512-255-2088. |
Project Rachel is an outreach of the Catholic Church that is open to anyone who is struggling with an abortion loss. It offers help to women and men, parents, grandparents, siblings, friends and others whose lives have been impacted by an abortion loss. A research tool on their web site permits a search by state for the closest office. Call 888-456-4673 |
Home Based Working Moms is a professional association and online community of parents who work at home and those who would like to. Call 833-HIRE-MOM 833-447 3666 www.HireMyMommy.com |
1st Way Life Center is the parent organization of 1st Way Life Centers. They offers support, guidance and a variety of services to girls and women who suspect that they might be pregnant. Call 800-848-LOVE. |
The National Council For Adoption provides general information on adoption as well as offering guidelines for deciding to adopt and taking the first steps. They can provide contact information for adoption agencies and attorneys. Call 703-299-6633. |
Option Line offers support and services for women who are pregnant. The research tool on the Option Line website helps a pregnant woman find resources in her area based on ZIP code. The staff can also be reached by texting HELPLINE to #313131. A link to initiate a CHAT is also available on the website. Call 800-712-HELP |
Rachel's Vineyard weekend retreats offer a supportive and confidential environment where men and women can reconcile post-abortive emotions and begin a process of healing. Call 866-482-LIFE or 877 HOPE 4 ME (866-482-5433) |
The Sisters of Life is a contemplative/active religious community in New York, Colorado and Canada founded for the protection and enhancement of the sacredness of all human life. The provision of practical resources for women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy is one component of their service mission. Access https://sistersoflife.org/what-we-do/pregnancy-help/ for phone numbers by area |
The Sunshine Lady Foundation invests in organizations and programs dedicated to the advancement of education for disadvantaged individuals. The Women’s Independence Scholarship Program is one aspect of their services. Call 252-240-2788 |
Teen Mother Choices is a Christian organization whose purpose is to empower teenage mothers to become independent, functioning members of society while giving their children the best possible life start. Call 224-252-0295 |
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The YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism and domestic violence, empowering women and promoting peace, freedom and dignity for all. “Find Your Y” link on their website is helpful research tool. Access YWCA Map to find the closest location.
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FROM OUR TNN MAILBOX ...
Each day at TNN offers many reasons to be grateful – especially when the gift of nurturing comes full circle.
"Dear Mary, I am writing to express my gratitude to you and TNN on this Thanksgiving Day. I give thanks as a very happy and fulfilled mother. My heart overflows with the warmest thoughts of you and gratitude for the support that TNN offered to the birthmother of our precious son. Writing this sentence brings tears of joy to my eyes. I hope that you and all your volunteers know that how much the gift of this child will forever mean to me. Words will just never be enough.
You will be happy to know that your client, Elizabeth, graduated in June and received the highest award given by her college! Her courage and sacrifice are forever written on my heart. I also stay in close contact with another TNN client, Ann Marie, who gave me the gift of being her Inspirational Counselor throughout the most challenging time in her life. She is now happily married and expecting her second child later this year. I feel very blessed to be a part of your work.
With love from a grateful mother for bringing my son to me ..."
~ Ministry Director
(Adoptive Family and TNN Donor)
The Nurturing Network’s goal is to ensure that each woman’s unique value, needs and circumstance are given the highest priority. Network collaborators join in this effort so that no woman feels forced to choose a desperate alternative because she believes that she has no other choice.
“What an absolutely superb website and work. I am so delighted to know about your program and to be able to direct others to it. The website is so perfectly and invitingly designed and the content is even better! Thank you so much!”
~Insurance Agent
(TNN Inspirational Counselor)
“The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome. And say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Feast on your life.”
~ Derek Walcott
TNN’s non-confrontational, non-judgmental approach to providing counseling and assistance played an important part in this positive evolution. We quietly and effectively helped to shape a more compassionate culture by communicating through our actions that each woman is worthy and each child is infinitely valuable no matter how challenging their circumstances may be.
“It is a great comfort to know that there’s an organization like this out there that not only provides women with a true choice, but has deeply embedded in its vision, the dignity of these women caught in circumstances that would otherwise limit their options.”
~ Chaplain
(TNN Inspirational Counselor)
“The woman wanting to exercise her choice for the birth alternative often does not have the financial, medical or emotional resources necessary to carry out this decision.”
~ Mary Cunningham Agee