Help HER choose Life

We have incredible news!

As of September 30, Morning Star has provided 2,847 client visits this year — a 24% increase over the same period in 2022! And our sonographers have already performed 1,331 ultrasounds — surpassing our 2022 total!

Our marketing initiative is working. We are reaching more women. But this also means that we need your financial support to sustain this growth. Your investment will ensure that Morning Star can continue to provide our no-cost services to every woman at risk for abortion, including women like Adriana*:

When Adriana found herself facing an unplanned pregnancy, she immediately turned to the internet for help and answers. She was convinced that an abortion would be simple, but she was concerned about the price. Then she saw a digital ad for Morning Star’s no-cost medical services. She knew from her research that it was important to have an ultrasound before making a final decision about an abortion. She also liked the fact that our services were FREE. So Adriana reached out to schedule an appointment.

We got her in right away.

At the appointment, Adriana’s counselor gave her all the facts about abortion, and especially the emotional risks to her. Meanwhile, Adriana’s boyfriend met with our fatherhood counselor to discuss his own concerns about the pregnancy. Then Adriana and her boyfriend saw our sonographer for an ultrasound. Adriana asked for a copy of her ultrasound pictures to take home, even before our sonographer had a chance to offer them to her. Before she left Morning Star, Adriana hugged her counselor and shared her decision: She was going to keep her baby.

In 2021, over 33,200 babies in the state of Pennsylvania lost their lives to abortion. Planned Parenthood Keystone now offers direct shipment of abortion pills to a woman’s home. Some mail-order abortion companies are even selling abortion pills to women before they become pregnant. In this environment, it is more important than ever for us to reach women quickly – offering help and solutions that protect their physical, mental, and emotional health and honor their dignity as children of God.
Through our digital marketing initiative, Morning Star is doing just that. Since July 2022, we have been investing in strategic digital advertising to reach women like Adriana before they make the decision to have an abortion. And with continuing education, hiring additional nurses, counselors and a third sonographer, and increasing our hours of operation, Morning Star is growing to meet the urgent need for same-day and next-day appointments.

But we cannot do it without you.

As the number of at-risk women coming to our clinics grows, so do our financial needs. In order to continue to support these increases, Morning Star is asking for your help to reach our end-of-year goal of $154,000.

It costs Morning Star approximately $625 to provide one mom with Life-affirming services.

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Please consider a one-time donation of $625 or a monthly donation of $52.08 to give one mom the medical services and resources she needs to choose Life.

Or perhaps you are able to do more. Your gift of $1,250 will help Morning Star support two moms at risk for abortion.

 

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Your financial contribution will provide a pregnant mother like Adriana with:

• Medical services, including pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, STD testing and treatment, and even Abortion Pill Reversal;
• Counseling to identify the obstacles she is facing and provide the resources and information she needs to continue her pregnancy;
• Educational programs to help her and her partner plan a positive future for their child;
• Family support appointments, where she will receive ongoing counseling, referrals and baby supplies.

Every woman facing an unplanned pregnancy deserves real healthcare and support for herself, her family and her unborn child. Your gift to Morning Star will help HER—so that she can make a courageous, Life-giving choice.

Thank you for your continued commitment to Life.

*Client names have been changed to protect confidentiality

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Because of you, women like Adriana are choosing Life for their babies every day. Can you help us reach our year-end goal of $154,000? Your gift will empower even more mothers and families to choose Life. Click here to make your donation today.

 

 

Our counselors see it every day in our clinics: A father walks in with his pregnant girlfriend, saying he’ll support her decision, whatever she decides. Our culture preaches “Her Body, Her Choice” as a message of female empowerment, but at Morning Star we know differently. By making the decision her choice, a father is disconnecting himself from the pregnancy, making it easier for him to walk away or to pressure the mom into choosing abortion.

That’s why, at Morning Star, we take the fathers out of the waiting room and into a counseling room. Steve Morris, our Nurse Clinic Manager, talks to these dads one-on-one, giving them the opportunity to work through their fears and form a positive vision of what fatherhood might look like for them. Discussions help these fathers recognize the importance of their role in the decision-making process and how they can support the moms.

After counseling, these dads enter the ultrasound exam room and see their babies—making it very real for them.

An ultrasound shows them it’s not just tissue.
An ultrasound shows them their babies’ heartbeat.
An ultrasound allows them to bond with their babies.
An ultrasound connects them to their children.

At Morning Star we are connecting moms and dads to their babies, to save as many families as we can from the trauma of abortion. Abortion has long tentacles and alters the lives of so many, lives like Angela’s husband, Jonathan. Angela came to Morning Star after struggling with her abortion from years ago. She found healing in Morning Star’s post-abortion support program; but as she experienced recovery, it brought to light the disconnect and denial her husband had been living with. He was willing to share his innermost thoughts on how their decision to have an abortion affected him.

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Jonathan’s Story

I was already a dad of a two-year-old when my wife Angela told me she was pregnant again. My immediate response was “This is not the time.” There were too many things going on in our lives—we were busy with work, raising our young son and the children from my wife’s previous relationship. I disconnected from the pregnancy and thought it wouldn’t have an impact on me if she got rid of it.

By disconnecting, it made me feel like I wasn’t the one doing it, my wife was. I didn’t have to take on that responsibility or guilt.

Angela had the abortion. And I didn’t even really think about it. She came home from the appointment and I just went on about my business, not even acknowledging what happened.

I now realize it was a dark time in my life. How could I just leave her alone to deal with it physically and emotionally? My mindset was selfishness. I didn’t want to feel the pain. Disconnecting was allowing me to live my life and forget about it.

I buried that abortion for many years as I lived my life being a father and husband, providing for my family. But my growing relationship with God began to awaken me—slowly revealing my disconnect. And while I began realizing the ramifications of my own decision, Angela made the choice to go to Morning Star for help, to heal emotionally and spiritually. After one of the sessions Angela came back home and said she felt if we had the baby it would have been a boy and his name would have been Dominick.

Dominick.
He has a name.
He was real.
I got rid of Dominick. I didn’t value his life.

By giving a name to our child, he became real to me. I don’t know if, up to that point, I truly comprehended the consequences of our decision: Our own selfishness affecting the plan of God.

I had confessed multiple things to the Lord over those years, but I hadn’t owned up to anything about ending the life of Dominick.

My thoughts started spiraling that I could have had another son. That I didn’t just take a life, I took my own child’s life. And then when those thoughts finally settled, I began to mourn the loss of never hearing the sound of his cry, his smell, holding him in my arms.

It’s so like human nature … the thing you think you don’t want can all of the sudden be the only thing you want … and you would do anything to have it back.

I wish I could call his name.
I wish I could put his name to paper.
I wish my older son would have his brother, friend, companion.

You don’t think about how your decisions affect other people. I had to give it to the Lord. I was a man on my knees suffering from condemnation and He showed me how disconnected I was.

I didn’t get to pick my son’s name, it came from my wife’s healing process; but the name Dominick is so precious to me now.

It takes the Lord to reveal certain things to you. I know the Lord has been walking with me on this path and my journey is not finished. I know He has the power to forgive and the power to heal. Today I have freedom in Jesus. I know my story is not finished.

My hope is that, when I meet the Lord, I will see Dominick.

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In today’s culture, it is too easy for fathers to give into the fear and uncertainty that surrounds an unplanned pregnancy—to disconnect and leave the mother of their child feeling alone, scared and desperately seeking a way out.

This Father’s Day, Pronio’s Market is encouraging our community to step up and support Life with a $15,000 Matching Gift Challenge. The deadline for this Life-Saving Match is June 23.

YOUR partnership with the Pronio Family will allow Morning Star to help 48 clients—empowering fathers to connect with their children and supporting families in making a choice for Life. It costs $625 to provide our services to one person in our community—services that include counseling, pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, STD testing & treatment, relationship & sexual health education, parenting classes, fatherhood program, baby clothing and supplies and Abortion Pill Reversal.

Help us reach men and women considering abortion and provide them with the support they need—so they can celebrate LIFE on Father’s Day.