But that鱿鱼视频app not how it played out one day during a pro-life street vigil in Windsor.
Sr. Linda Dube, an Ursuline based at the motherhouse in nearby Chatham, was confronted by someone who was for abortion rights.
鈥淲ell, what are you doing to help, what about a woman who鱿鱼视频app pregnant and has nowhere to go, what are you doing to help her?鈥� Dube recalled her accuser asking.
It made the sister, who was participating in the annual 40 Days for Life campaign, stop and think. Perhaps this person 鈥� the kind 鈥淚 like to talk to the most鈥� because they are at least interested in the issue and therefore open to change 鈥� had a point. The result: an effort to open a local home for pregnant women.
It is about to come to fruition, as Our Lady of Guadalupe Home for Mothers will soon open.
鈥淭hat鱿鱼视频app where that idea initiated because really there is nothing (for young pregnant women in southwestern Ontario) between here and St. Thomas,鈥� about 200 km away, where Fresh Start 鈥� a similar facility, exists, she said.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Home for Mothers still needs some final inspections before it opens but already there have been inquiries and the staff is working with community agencies for referrals.
Elaine Paul, a social worker who will live there as the house mother and program manager, said the idea is for women who are pregnant to arrive before the birth and live there afterwards for several months.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 want them to come in too early because they would have less time afterwards,鈥� she said. 鈥淥bviously women who got kicked out of the house, they are going to need to be here earlier.鈥�
The home will provide pre-and post-natal care, and help with personal skills such as cooking, budgeting and job-seeking.
Dube and others (the Ursulines are not officially involved in the project) decided to raise money for the home but it only came in dribs and drabs.
鈥淲e worked very hard for three or four years raising money through the Baby Bottle Campaign and through the churches mostly and other little organizations and we had a fundraiser,鈥� she said. And then 鈥渟omeone on our board suggested we make a novena鈥� we flat out asked for a house.鈥�
Two days later Dube was driving on a rural road outside Windsor during a blinding snowstorm.
鈥淚 couldn鈥檛 see out the window,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 was terrified to get out and clear the windshield wipers because they were caked with ice and slush. I couldn鈥檛 get out because I was afraid I鈥檇 get hit.鈥�
But she drove on, and upon arriving at her speaking engagement, 鈥渢here wasn鈥檛 a flake of snow in sight.鈥�
Dube gave her talk and afterwards people milled around and 鈥渢here was one guy, sort of waiting, waiting, waiting.鈥� Finally he came up to her and offered to help.
鈥淚 said, 鈥榃ould you like a baby bottle?鈥� 鈥� she said. 鈥淗e just laughed at me and said, 鈥楴o, I mean I can help you.鈥� And he wanted to give us a house.鈥�
At first her group thought this would be an existing home, perhaps a bed and breakfast, which was closing. But this anonymous donor decided to provide, 鈥渕inimum,鈥� $300,000, for a brand new, fully furnished seven-bedroom house in the heart of Windsor. Construction started last July.
Dube is passionate about the need for a home.
鈥淏ecause in reality a woman who鱿鱼视频app not married and pregnant 鈥� we鈥檙e so liberal in our society 鈥� they get tremendous pressure to terminate the pregnancy, from doctors, from family members,鈥� she said.
(Stang is a freelance writer in Windsor, Ont.)