When an unexpected pregnancy brings financial concerns, relationship difficulties, school, work, or other pressures with it, abortion can begin to feel like your only realistic choice. But before deciding, it helps to find out what support is available if you choose another option.
Crossroads Women’s Center offers options consultations where you can discuss your circumstances and get your questions answered. Schedule your free and confidential visit today to explore what each option could mean for you. And read on to learn more about those options.
If Parenting Feels Out of Reach
You may like the idea of parenting but worry that you aren’t prepared for it. Maybe finances are tight, you’re unsure about caring for a baby, or you don’t know how you would manage parenting on your own.
Before ruling parenting out, learn what help is available. You don’t have to figure things out alone.
Crossroads Women’s Center provides no-cost parenting classes, one-on-one support, material assistance, and other resources for new parents. Support is available whether you’re single, married, or planning to co-parent.
Through the Earn While You Learn program, you can take classes to help you prepare for pregnancy, birth, baby care, and parenting while earning items from the Crossroads Store. Depending on availability, those items may include diapers, wipes, formula, baby food, clothing, car seats, and other baby necessities.
Adoption Is Worth Learning About, Too
If you don’t feel ready to parent but aren’t comfortable with abortion, adoption is another option you can explore.
Modern adoption allows you to select the adoptive parents and the plan that best aligns with your goals, wishes, and communication preferences. All adoption and legal services are offered for free, and you may receive additional support for maternity items, counseling, and more.
At Crossroads, you can ask questions about the adoption process and what choices you may have as the birth mother. We can also provide referrals to adoption resources so you can get more detailed information before deciding whether this option is right for you.
Learning about adoption doesn’t commit you to making an adoption plan, but gives you another option to consider.
Begin With an Options Consultation
You don’t need to arrive at Crossroads already knowing what you want to do.
During your options consultation, you can receive no-cost pregnancy testing. Following a positive result, an ultrasound can be scheduled with one of Crossroads’ Pennsylvania-licensed RDMS sonographers. The scan can provide important information about your pregnancy and help you identify next steps.
You’ll also have time to talk about your circumstances and the questions influencing your decision.
If abortion currently feels like your only choice, give yourself the opportunity to learn what else may be possible. Schedule your options consultation with Crossroads Women’s Center today to learn about your pregnancy, your options, and the support available to you.
*Crossroads Women’s Center does not provide or refer for abortions.