Posts Tagged ‘Pregnancy Help’

Op shop marks 50 years helping pregnant women and families

Thursday, October 17th, 2024

Opening an op shop was exactly what a group of Pregnancy Help volunteers decided they needed to fund their service for pregnant women and their families. That was fifty years ago. The shop’s 50th anniversary this week was marked with volunteers old and new from Levin’s Uniting Church getting together to celebrate and reflect on Read more

We will help any pregnant woman, says cardinal

Thursday, February 28th, 2019

Any pregnant woman – regardless of her faith, marriage or immigration status – can ask Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York for help. He emphasised his willingness to help after New York State’s Reproductive Health Act 2019 legalised abortions for any reason up to birth. The public outcry after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed Read more

Parents told to keep tabs as child sex on rise

Friday, May 24th, 2013

An Invercargill youth worker says children as young as 11 are having sex in Invercargill, which has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in New Zealand. She wanted to get the message out that children in the city were having sex and many parents did not know it was happening. “I want to stimulate Read more