New faith-based volunteer clinic provides pregnancy care for women in crisis

IDAHO FALLS – A caller session catering to women pinch an unplanned gestation precocious opened successful Idaho Falls.

Nest Pregnancy Care Center opened March 15 astatine 467 Constitution Way. The pro-life, faith-based nonprofit is affiliated pinch Care Net, an evangelical Christian web of situation gestation centers operating passim nan U.S. A group of volunteers tally nan organization.

The session is funded wholly by backstage donations, which intends each nan services are free to clients.

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It provides gestation tests and acquisition resources for women and girls without a support system.

“We meet pinch clients one-on-one and talk done gestation options. If they are reasoning astir abortion, we springiness them medically meticulous accusation connected what abortion entails and things they request to beryllium alert of,” Jannell Faulkner, nan clinic’s executive director, tells EastIdahoNews.com.

The session does not execute abortions. The Idaho Legislature made abortion forbidden from fertilization aft nan overturning of Roe vs. Wade successful 2022.

Mentoring connected take services are provided for those who are interested. It besides offers parenting and different acquisition courses for caller moms, and a babe boutique wherever moms tin bargain supplies for their small one.

Resources are besides disposable to men who person reservations aliases concerns astir being a father.

Nest Pregnancy Care Center astatine 467 Constitution Way successful Idaho Falls. | Courtesy photo

Since launching successful March, Faulkner says they’ve helped 10 clients, 1 of which was a unfortunate of quality trafficking and came to Idaho to escape.

“They had a newborn and had thing erstwhile they came here,” Faulkner says. “We put them successful touch pinch each nan different organizations successful municipality — Medicaid, WIC, nan bum shelter.”

Seeing group who are hopeless get a glimpse of dream during a clip of situation is what Faulkner finds astir rewarding astir nan job.

Limited entree to abortion and women’s easy entree to nan abortion pill successful different states was 1 of nan main motivators for opening Nest Pregnancy Care Center, according to Faulkner.

Although nan session is simply a pro-life organization, Faulkner says they wanted to beryllium a assets to amended group connected some sides of nan abortion issue.

“For group who take abortion, we want to beryllium location for them. A information of what we do present is simply a post-abortion support program,” Faulkner explains.

A faith-based adjacent support group is disposable to thief clients navigate done nan aftermath of that decision. It besides sponsors a three-day retreat doubly a twelvemonth for women who person dealt pinch an abortion previously.

“We do not mention aliases support abortion services, and we don’t want to cognize (where they spell to get it done),” says Faulkner. “We are present to supply accusation and acquisition to a female truthful she tin make a determination she tin unrecorded pinch agelong term. We want to emotion people, nary matter what their determination is, successful a judgement-free environment.”

Nest Pregnancy Care Center precocious acquired an ultrasound machine. The extremity is to get nan costs to prosecute a qualified master who tin run it truthful they tin supply this work successful nan future. They’d yet for illustration to connection free STD testing arsenic well.

Faulkner is perpetually fundraising astatine businesses, churches and organization events. Those who consciousness inclined to make a aid tin extremity by nan session aliases click here.

Nest Pregnancy Care Center is unfastened 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday done Wednesday.