Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Province, Russia, April 15, 2024
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The pregnancy consultation service located at the Hodigitria Convent in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, helps women choose to keep their babies and helps families in need.
The Anti-abortion Social Consulting Service recently released a summation of its work for the first quarter of 2024, noting that as a result of 107 consultations, seven women chose to continue their pregnancies and keep their babies, reports the Chelyabinsk Metropolis.
The service is part of the All-Russian charity program Save a Life, which began in 2015. Today, the program is operational in 76 cities, helping women in crisis pregnancies choose to keep their babies by providing them with information about the abortion procedure and consequences, and providing the woman with psychological and social assistance.
“One of the main factors pushing women to have an abortion is the lack of support from men and those around them. Sometimes a woman feels pressure from her parents. Therefore, we help Chelyabinsk girls to make an informed choice, give expectant mothers the most necessary things for a newborn,” said. Anna Kozhevnikova, coordinator of the anti–abortion service.
“Additionally, we can babysit while a mom runs off about her business,” the coordinator said.
In the first three months of the year, consultants helped 60 families with food, clothing, and medicine, and also gave out four strollers, a car seat, a baby walker, and paid for medical treatments.
In February of this year, the pectoral cross of the monastery’s pre-revolutionary abbess Anastasia (Schapova) was returned to the holy habitation.
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