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Pregnancy Centres and Heroic Media saved babies
LifeSiteNews.com – November 23, 2010
Heroic Media: Saving Unborn Babies…One TV Commercial at a Time
By John Jalsevac
Clarisse Martin learned late last year that she was pregnant – something she had not planned and absolutely did not want. She was determined to have an abortion.
Shortly after finding out she was expecting she spotted a large billboard with the words, “Pregnant? Scared?” and the picture of a young African American woman and a phone number. Clarisse was pregnant, and she was most definitely scared. She called the number on the billboard, which connected her with a local pregnancy center. At the center, she requested an abortion, but her counselor explained that because they were a Christian organization, they did not provide abortions, but could help in a variety of other ways.
While Clarisse listened to the options available, she left the center still determined to terminate her pregnancy. However, over the next few days, she thought about the conversation and asked herself how she could say she was a Christian and still consider abortion.
She eventually went back and agreed to an ultrasound. Once she saw her little girl on the screen, Clarisse knew she would allow her daughter to be born. On July 28, beautiful baby Mary Joy took her first breath.
This true story is only one of thousands of such stories that happen across the United States and around the world every year, thanks in large part to the help of pregnancy resource centers such as those run by CareNet and Heartbeat International. But such pregnancy centers would be able to do nothing if women didn’t know they existed, and didn’t go to them when in crisis.
That’s where Heroic Media comes in.