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Pregnancy Resources: How to Help Expecting Women

Imagine it’s two days before Christmas Eve. You’re 21 years old, homeless, and pregnant. You don’t know what to do now. You don’t know where to turn, who to turn to, or where to go. As a young expecting mother, you can’t find the pregnancy resources you need to survive, like shelter or care. By […]

We Couldn’t Imagine Our Lives Without Her

One couple’s journey from planning for abortion to a choice for life. Stacy* started to panic as she watched her home pregnancy test confirm her fears: she was pregnant. “We can’t have this baby,” her husband, Mark*, said. They had an older son who was ready to leave for college, had both lost their jobs because of […]

Pregnancy Clinic Offers Hope To Two Single Moms

Jillian’s Story: Finding help in the midst of a search for an abortion By Katie Doryland Christine* noticed that her 16-year-old daughter, Jillian,* hadn’t been looking well recently. She was pale and wasn’t eating much. Jillian kept telling her mother she was fine whenever she asked, but Christine didn’t believe her. “I insisted that she get tested for the […]

Two Pregnancy Centers, Two Sets of Twins

Twins Bring Twice The Love At Two Pregnancy Centers During COVID-19 Lockdowns, shutdowns and constant anxiety; 2020 has been fraught with it all. Coincidentally, much of the uncertainty we have experienced this year is similar to what women facing an unplanned pregnancy often feel. It can be an incredibly scary time. Add pregnancy during a pandemic and things get even more complicated. This is why pregnancy resource centers […]

What a Young Mother Chose When Abortion Seemed to Be Her Only Option

How God was with this homeless, unemployed, and lonely immigrant through the work of pro-life individuals in her community. Homelessness, unemployment and lack of support from family cause considerable stress for anyone who experiences any of those factors. Now imagine combining all of that and adding the potential of deportation to Venezuela during the peak […]

4 ultrasounds, 1 decision for life: Gabi’s Story

Choosing Life After An Ultrasound By Brittany Smith Gabi found out she was pregnant on the bathroom floor of a friend’s house. She had just gotten home from a night out at the bar and on a whim stopped at a drugstore to pick up a pregnancy test. “I had been feeling weird, but didn’t […]

Kendra’s Story: How A Bus Changed Everything

Mother in New York Chooses Life for Her Baby By Brittany Smith Eight months ago, Kendra walked into an abortion clinic in Schenectady, NY after escaping an abusive relationship. A relationship that forced her to flee her home town in the middle of the night to protect her daughters. And left her with another baby […]

“THE MINUTE I HEARD HIS HEARTBEAT…EVERYTHING CHANGED.”

Beth Shares Her Story with Save the Storks

My Journey to Healing—Abortion, Drugs, Miscarriage, and Jesus

When I was 19 I found out I was pregnant. I had been with my boyfriend for about a year. He was living with his parents and I was living with my grandparents. My mom had been living with us for a while but had recently started using heroin again and was back on the […]

Refugee Couple Only Understands This One Word—And It Saves Their Child’s Life

Having journeyed across the ocean, escaping from a world apart from ours, a refugee couple from Afghanistan were facing a new worry. The wife was pregnant, and they had nowhere to turn. But as they drove down a street one day, our vibrant teal van caught their eye as it sat in the empty parking […]

We Thought Abortion Was Our Only Option, Until We Saw a Bus That Said “HOPE”

My husband and I found out we were pregnant in December of 2013. At the time, I wasn’t authorized to work in the United States and my husband’s job barely provided for the two of us. We sought out help, but had no community to support us or the baby. We wanted to be parents, […]