We received a call today from a young lady inquiring about our Growing Families program. After some conversation, she expressed her interest and said she would come in to the center to sign up.  Unfortunately, based on experience, quite often that’s as far as it goes.  In this case, however, just moments before our shift changed, in came “Carol.”  After filing out the application, one of our counselors offered to show her our boutique, where participants can spend their “seed money” earned through workshop attendance to purchase items necessary for caring for their baby.

The counselor and Carol continued chatting.  Carol informed us that she was five months pregnant and had actually come into our center earlier in her pregnancy.  She was given a doctor’s referral so she could receive pre-natal care. In that moment, a smile spread sweetly across her face.  It was then that she told the counselor that she had tried six times to get an abortion before calling Birth Choice.  Once the doctor had to cancel the appointment; another time her dad kept calling and calling her so she left the office; the next time, she found out she was too far along and would need a surgical abortion.  After scheduling an appointment at Planned Parenthood, she endured a 10-hour wait at their center. She ended up walking out; the fifth time she fainted, and the final time… God’s beautiful intervention – she felt the baby kick!

Now, Carol is continuing her college education, has the support of her father, and is looking forward to involvement in Growing Families to prepare her for the new challenges ahead and “to learn to be the best mommy I can be.”  It’s moments like these when a light is shone on the divine plan of God. Thank you, Birth Choice volunteers, for being there and helping to be vessels through which God can work his miracles!