The Women's Center...1-800-400-4205             
Southside Pregnancy Center...(708) 229-0092
Shepard's House - A Sanctuary for Expectant Mothers...(815) 485-9515
Aid for Women (312) 621-1100
Priests for Life 1-888-PFL-3448

Counseling & Pregnancy Testing

The Women's Center, Evergreen Park...1-800-400-4205 or (708) 425-0707
Southside Pregnancy Center, Oak Lawn...(708) 229-0092
Care First Pregnancy Center  1-312-263-1576
Pregnancy Aid South Suburbs (PASS), Tinley Park...(708) 614-9777
Aid for Women, Chicago...(312) 621-1100

Post Abortion Help
Counseling

Project Rachel (24 hours)...
(312) 337-1962 (click here to learn more)

WEBA-Women Exploited by Abortion...(312) 263-1175
Priests for Life 1-888-PFL-3448
Chicago Care Pregnancy Center (312) 263-1576
Post-Abortion Hot Line 1-800-5-WE-CARE

Crisis Pregnancy Centers Online
(http://www.prolife.org/cpcs-online)

TheUlimate Pro-Life Resource List
...most comprehensive list of resources on the internet

Adoption Services
internet links from Dane County Right To Life Links

Adoption Network

This site has loads of info for birthparents, adoptees and parents.

Adoption Resources

Great resource for info on a little of everything relating to adoption.

Children Adoption Network, Inc./Crossroads Adoption Services

They have a huge photolisting of children waiting to be adopted.

Christian World Adoption

"Finding good homes for God’s children." Mt. Pleasant, SC

Department of Protective & Regulatory Services (Texas)

Has photolisting of waiting children & information on childcare, adult & child protection, Children’s Justice Act and more.

Faces of Adoption: America’s Waiting Children

Very informative site! Co-sponsored by Children Awaiting Parents and National Adoption Center.

Families with Children from China

Great resource whether you’re looking to adopt, or have already adopted, from China.

Heart International Adoption Services (Johnston, Iowa)

Since 1982, licensed child placing agency specializing in facilitating adoption of children from other countries.

Holt International Children's Services

This is a well-established, very popular organization that specializes in international adoptions.

Independent Adoption Center

The largest open adoption program in the USA; over a DECADE of experience; completely nonprofit organization with whose main focus is on counseling and support.

Jewish Family & Children’s Services (Philadelphia, PA)

Full service, non-sectarian; Pre- & Post-Adoption services

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

New York State Adoption Services

Has photolisting of waiting children and lots of info on adopting through NYSAS

Project Rachel Helps Women Find Forgiveness After Abortion
Source: Saturday, May 15, 1999, Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City --  Every year, more than 1 million American women have
abortions. For some, it is an especially painful decision that leaves them
living monuments to regret.
    Some suffer for years before making peace God and themselves and
finding reconcilation.
    That's where the Roman Catholic Church's Project Rachel comes in, a
training program for priests and other church workers to minister to women
-- and men -- struggling with the spiritual aftermath of an abortion.
    "Guilt is the big thing, and sorrow," said the Rev. George Davich,
pastor of Salt Lake City's St. Vincent de Paul. "They think, `I'll never
be forgiven because I took a life.' "
    For those seeking counseling and church reconciliation, there is no
debate over the morality of abortion; they have already judged themselves.
"They just can't seem to get over what they've done, even though it may
have happened 10 years ago," Davich said. "In fact, I had one that
happened 25 years ago.
    "Some show a lot of anger because someone said, `This is what you have
to do.' It may have been a parent or a boyfriend or it might have been a
husband. I try to rid them of their anger and guilt.
    "You can't undo it, but you have to let them know God forgives,"
Davich said.
    A confidential healing ministry, Project Rachel was founded in 1984 at
the Diocese of Milwaukee and quickly spread throughout the nation. It
takes its name from Jeremiah 31:15-17: " . . . Rachel weeping for her
children, refused to be comforted . . . because they were not."
    Most of Salt Lake City's 65 to 70 priests have received post-abortion
counseling instruction, said Veola Burchett, the diocese's Family and
Pro-Life director. In the seven years Project Rachel has operated in Salt
Lake City, more than 100 have sought the Sacrament of Reconciliation after
counseling.
    "Sometimes I'll get three or four calls a month," Burchett said.
"Since it involves such a highly private sacrament, it's difficult to come
up with an estimate. I don't know how many approach priests on their own."
    Davich, who has counseled at least six women struggling with abortion
guilt, says God's forgiveness is often an easier sell than convincing them
to forgive themselves.
    "Some feel they aren't worthy to pray, so you try to take that
unworthy issue out of them. Everybody's worthy, that's our Christian
belief," he said. "You say, `Christ forgave all of us for the things that
we do, so who are you not to forgive yourself?' "
    The Rev. Kenneth Vialpando, pastor of Salt Lake's Our Lady of
Guadalupe, also has counseled several women on abortion-related matters.
He says it's all about healing.
    "I try to take a pastoral approach, tell them of God's forgiveness . .
. that there isn't anything we could have thought or done that cannot be
forgiven," he said. "He's here to wrap his arms around us and wants to
take that burden and load off us."
    Still, some will struggle throughout their lives to forgive
themselves, not seeking the consolation of the church for years after an
abortion. "By the time they recognize that God is not going to condemn
them, it can take years. In one case I dealt with recently it was 17 years
later," Vialpando said.
    "We want to reach out to people for whatever their loss," he added.
"We need the ministry of compassion and healing in our churches."
    Davich and Vialpando echo the message of grace delivered by Pope John
Paul II in 1995, who pleaded with women who had abortions to "not give in
to discouragement and do not lose hope."
    "Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly," the
pontiff said. "The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness
and his peace. . . ."
    Burchett has discovered that men, too, can suffer profoundly -- either
when they first learn they fathered an aborted child, or with subsequent
guilt for being party to one. "Sometimes, they aren't given a choice and
now they find themselves mourning the death of a child they didn't know
existed," Burchett said. "In a matter of seconds they have become a father
and then have the child taken."
    Being involved with Project Rachel also has soften Burchett's own,
admittedly once-self-righteous attitude toward women who have had
abortions, though he continues to steadfastly oppose abortion and also
counsels women to choose abortion alternatives.
    "I realize at the time they made their choices they felt they really
had no choices," she said. "We can never say, `Oh, I would never do
anything like that.'
    "We all make wrong choices [and] there will always be those scars, but
scars are part of what makes us the people we are."

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Pregnancy Centers Online offers a lengthy list of national and local
ministries that help women who have suffered the pain of an abortion. See
the post-abortion section of http://www.pregnancycenters.org