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LearnYourOptions is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating women and couples regarding their available options when facing an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy. According to Massachusetts General Law, when a woman is seeking an abortion, a physician is to provide her with a detailed form covering the following information: the developmental stages of the unborn baby, what an abortive surgery actually entails, the complications that could arise from the surgery, alternatives to abortion, and other legalities regarding the woman signing and handing the form back to the physician. This form covers a lot of information. Therefore, LearnYourOptions seeks to spend time informing and educating women who are trying to understand all of the choices available to them and all of the possible side effects of the choice they will make.
The trained counselors working in this organization are highly sensitive to the fear, confusion, or anger women often feel when learning of an unplanned pregnancy. They know that it can be incredibly difficult for women to voice these fears and concerns to even family members or close friends. The counselors strive to make all women feel safe and comfortable discussing the issues they may not be ready to discuss with any other individual at that point. They are dedicated to walking with each woman through her journey, helping her to make a fully informed decision about her child.
Often women feel that their only choice for an unplanned pregnancy and an unwanted baby is to have an abortion, even when they are not sure they want one. This is because many women are unaware of the help they would receive when choosing to keep their baby. If a woman does not have a support system, LearnYourOptions will help them find one through other organizations they partner with. One of these organizations, Safe Families Programs, helps women throughout even the first year of the baby’s life.
LearnYourOptions is not an abortion clinic and does not perform abortive procedures. All of the services they provide are completely free, which includes: pregnancy testing, obstetrical ultrasounds, and options counseling. Depending on the individual need of each woman who decides to continue her pregnancy, LearnYourOptions provides material assistance, parenting classes (while the mother is pregnant), infant classes (after the mother gives birth), housing and insurance referrals, and other means of aid in getting the mother stabilized throughout the challenge she is facing.
If a woman is positive she wants an abortion, the counselors discuss the procedure, along with the physical, emotional, and spiritual effects the surgery could have on her. LearnYourOptions also offers post abortion counseling for women who seek healing. The counselors are aware that no matter what choice a woman makes, their lives will be changed and there will be effects within that woman’s life that will always stay with her. Parenting can be difficult, adoption can be emotional, and abortion can be scarring. But LearnYourOptions offers help and hope to women facing these challenges.
For more information visit www.LearnYourOptions.org.
~ LearnYourOptions operates at three centers ~
South Coast: 25 North Main Street, Fall River, MA 02720 (508) 646-2665
Boston: 97 Broad Way, Revere, MA 02151 (781) 284-8747
Cape Cod: 48 Camp Street, Hyannis, MA 02601 (508) 790-0584
LearnYourOptions is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating women and couples regarding their available options when facing an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy. According to Massachusetts General Law, when a woman is seeking an abortion, a physician is to provide her with a detailed form covering the following information: the developmental stages of the unborn baby, what an abortive surgery actually entails, the complications that could arise from the surgery, alternatives to abortion, and other legalities regarding the woman signing and handing the form back to the physician. This form covers a lot of information. Therefore, LearnYourOptions seeks to spend time informing and educating women who are trying to understand all of the choices available to them and all of the possible side effects of the choice they will make.
The trained counselors working in this organization are highly sensitive to the fear, confusion, or anger women often feel when learning of an unplanned pregnancy. They know that it can be incredibly difficult for women to voice these fears and concerns to even family members or close friends. The counselors strive to make all women feel safe and comfortable discussing the issues they may not be ready to discuss with any other individual at that point. They are dedicated to walking with each woman through her journey, helping her to make a fully informed decision about her child.
Often women feel that their only choice for an unplanned pregnancy and an unwanted baby is to have an abortion, even when they are not sure they want one. This is because many women are unaware of the help they would receive when choosing to keep their baby. If a woman does not have a support system, LearnYourOptions will help them find one through other organizations they partner with. One of these organizations, Safe Families Programs, helps women throughout even the first year of the baby’s life.
LearnYourOptions is not an abortion clinic and does not perform abortive procedures. All of the services they provide are completely free, which includes: pregnancy testing, obstetrical ultrasounds, and options counseling. Depending on the individual need of each woman who decides to continue her pregnancy, LearnYourOptions provides material assistance, parenting classes (while the mother is pregnant), infant classes (after the mother gives birth), housing and insurance referrals, and other means of aid in getting the mother stabilized throughout the challenge she is facing.
If a woman is positive she wants an abortion, the counselors discuss the procedure, along with the physical, emotional, and spiritual effects the surgery could have on her. LearnYourOptions also offers post abortion counseling for women who seek healing. The counselors are aware that no matter what choice a woman makes, their lives will be changed and there will be effects within that woman’s life that will always stay with her. Parenting can be difficult, adoption can be emotional, and abortion can be scarring. But LearnYourOptions offers help and hope to women facing these challenges.
For more information visit www.LearnYourOptions.org.
~ LearnYourOptions operates at three centers ~
South Coast: 25 North Main Street, Fall River, MA 02720 (508) 646-2665
Boston: 97 Broad Way, Revere, MA 02151 (781) 284-8747
Cape Cod: 48 Camp Street, Hyannis, MA 02601 (508) 790-0584
