To those who are pro-life?

You raise an excellent point. While I believe in the sanctity of life, I am also painfully aware of the variety of personal issues that can lead a woman to make that decision. I think we have a responsibility to meet that woman at her point of need and do whatever we can to alleviate the obstacles that she faces, be that financial by providing basic needs, emotional by providing support and/or counseling or spiritually by providing insight and guidance.

In my area, we have a wonderful organization that does exactly this. Women come to the center for pregnancy testing and are provided a counselor who discusses their options and the factors at work in that woman's life. The counselors then attempt to help them through it by providing resources for their needs. They provide drivers for appointments, parenting classes, adoption resources if necessary. After the child is born they provide a crib and car seat and a layette of essentials for the baby and continued counseling and support.

Yes, it is important to do more. Many of us are limited in our ability to help though. The idea that in order to be pro-life we must adopt the child or support her and her child is extreme. This comes from the attitude that a child is an object and not a person.

But in answer to your question, yes. The Catholic Church has something called the Gabriel Project. This organization helps a woman who has chosen life by taking her to doctor appointments, getting donations of clothing, furniture, and money to help with the baby. They provide help with babysitting and help with parenting classes. They will help get a woman to and from school so that she can complete her education and obtain employment. This group helps in any way they can to provide a woman with all she needs to be independent, and raise her child.

I understand,Our Church has both a Homeless ministry that is very active, we pick up Homeless from the shelter in Downtown Ft. Worth Tx and bring them to the Church (as many as the Bus can hold) and feed them and provide them with prepared survival packets and try to find Jobs for them as well as support a teen pregancy Crises center. we are only limited by our income.

All of those who help in this do so Voluntarily,

I'm interested in these answers and would like to also know why the amount of protests against IVF pales significantly in comparison to abortion clinics.

Everybody can always do more. The protest are designed to effect legislation, not as a solution to pregnant women in trouble. Naturally helping them would be a compassionate and Christian thing to do.

I don't think this only applies to pro-lifers. Is it enough to just say global warming is a threat? Is it enough to state you are against homelessness? Is it enough to proclaim Islamic extremism is a threat?

Our opinions on these matters, while of great interest to us, typically have little impact in the world until we act on them.

"I'll ask you the same question I asked them.

do you feel it's enough just to protest against abortion? would you or do you do anything more? such as volunteer at a shelter, provide transportation to doctor appts, take a homeless woman into your home, help her apply for benefits & find housing, etc."

Sure, if I was the one who knocked her up... if the man who did knock her up is not going to support her then she should show better judgement in her selection of partners. Why should I be responsible for her mistake?

Besides that, I don't really protest abortion. But I do think it is wrong because:

A.) A fetus is a human life (run a DNA test on it... what is it if not human?)

B.) I think our society is way to accepting of letting people take the easy way out. Don't want to work? Here is welfare. Aren't smart enough to use contraception? Have an abortion. Can't intelligently get loans? Here is the government to give you billions of dollars to bail you out.

The beginning of the end of the US was when we dropped personal responsibility as a virtue. I protest the new wave of people who think the government should be responsible for you.

Yes, I believe the Church will rise up and take responsiblity and care for all the wemon who need any kind of help raising their child. It's good that they are alive! You raise a very good point and im glad for it, but in any case killing a child because you dont want to take care of it is not a solution at all, its murder. Jesus loves all those children and the mothers that are in need. Lord send out laborers to take care of your young ones, and the mothers that are in desperate need of your help!

Wow, all the geniuses came out of the woodwork to answer this question.

To the idiot who said it's not hard to carry a child and put it up for adoption: How many times have you done it?

And to the oh-so-compassionate FLOID: That's real nice. Didn't your parents teach you that it's your responsibility as a man to take care of those weaker than you? Grow up.

I couldn't even read the rest of the responses--too much igorance for me to even bear this morning.

See, this is what I don't get. To be against abortion means you have to take in the people who ****** up their lives by making bad decisions? It's almost as if you're saying it's ok or these homeless women to have become pregnant in the first place. Have the baby...put it up for adoption...not hard.

Pro-choice/Anti-abortion