It’s being touted as the first of its kind in the nation. Expectant Mother Care (EMC) is a long-established women help center in New York City. Its founder and president, Chris Slattery, has developed the 22-year-old ministry into the largest and most effective pregnancy resource center in the New York metropolitan area. EMC serves over 4,200 young women per year in fifteen different locations. Chris says their calling is to serve the distraught and disadvantaged.
What’s new and unique about this center is they now have a mobile pregnancy clinic with a couple of added twists. The renovated mobile home features a portable ultrasound unit and qualified staff members will provide assistance to women facing an unplanned pregnancy. Here’s another really cool part. EMC plans to park the mobile clinic at major abortion mills six days a week. This is desperately needed in New York City where 88,000 abortions are done each year.
EMC will provide a constant presence to counsel women going into the facilities for an abortion. You might call it deluxe sidewalk counseling. All of these abortion-minded women will be given free ultrasounds, hot or cold drinks depending upon the weather, and crisis counseling. These free services will be provided in a judgment-free environment, without pressure or coercion, which will allow them to reflect on their impending abortion.
EMC already offers women free group housing, pre-natal care, professional adoption counseling and material aid. It is very pro-woman oriented, while helping to protect the lives of their unborn babies.
If you’re interested in this cutting-edge pro-life counseling, Expectant Mother Care would be happy to share their wealth of experience with you. This new project is, in part, the result of Chris reading about another mobile counseling unit that Life Issues Institute previously highlighted in this publication.
You can contact EMC by phone at 914.224.5773, visit http://emcfrontline.org/, or email Chris.
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