Life. The Other Choice
Volume 4, Issue 2
Did you know that during the 2022 Prop 3 campaign the number of abortions in Michigan actually went down? Women were making a choice for life at a higher rate during that fateful campaign. Michigan voters felt that abortion needed to be legal but women were not necessarily choosing abortion for themselves. Even though a woman in Michigan can have an abortion at any point in her pregnancy for any reason she doesn’t have to. What we want to do is make it so she wants to make a choice for Life and has the practical support she needs to make that choice for Life.
RTL of St. Joseph County is striving to have a positive and helpful impact on women considering abortion. We are supporting the Right to Life of Michigan “Life. The Other Choice” ad campaign. We are working together to fund the pregnancy helpline: 1-800-712-HELP. Women can call or text this number and receive confidential counseling and then the folks at that helpline connect the woman to a pregnancy care center closest to her – in her community.
And to help the closest local pregnancy care centers in St. Joseph County, RTL of St. Joseph County is co-hosting a Baby Shower to benefit both Pregnancy Helpline of Sturgis and Pregnancy Helpline Center, Three Rivers. Our partners in this effort are St. Paul Lutheran Church and St. Clare Catholic Church. Our baby shower will be held at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 585 W. Burr Oak St, Centreville on April 27th at 2 pm.
Right to Life of Michigan and RTL of St. Joseph County have re-committed ourselves to removing obstacles to the support a woman needs to continue her pregnancy. Support to help her continue her college courses or to continue her career, so that she knows, no matter what, she can choose life. We are asking you to help as well by attending the Baby Shower on April 27th. The gifts you donate will be divided between Pregnancy Helpline of Sturgis and Pregnancy Helpline of Center, Three Rivers.
The most important message we have now is – in order for Choice to truly exit there must be a Choice for Life. We rededicate ourselves to making this possible in St. Joseph County.