Los Angeles Pregnancy Services (LAPS) is a non-profit agency that serves the community of Pico-Union District near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, a predominantly Latino and African-American neighborhood. We provide bilingual counseling to women who need pregnancy support. In this neighborhood families often believe that abortion is the only alternative to their problems of poverty, unemployment and other difficulties. LAPS stands as a friendly and compassionate voice that opens their mind and heart to consider life-affirming options for their pregnancy.
In the nine years that Los Angeles Pregnancy Services has been serving this community, we have learned that most women do not want abortion, but rather they are longing for a supportive and caring voice in their life. Their problems and challenges are real and often very painful. The counselors at LAPS commit themselves to take the time to listen and help our clients sort out their problems in a constructive way that gives them long term peace and joy.
We often see women come in to our center with a face full of grief and sorrow, wondering what tomorrow will be like and how they will make ends meet. It is striking to observe the glow that these same women radiate when they make a choice for life and embrace their unborn child with love and hope. The look in their face is even more radiant when they are holding their precious child in their arms. Even after the birth child, LAPS counselors commit themselves to be there for our clients to help guide them in their unique needs and questions as parents.
The primary services LAPS offers are free pregnancy tests, counseling, and referrals to a network of community resources that will help and guide pregnant women through the many challenges they may face. LAPS also provides women with free maternity clothes, baby items, baby food, formula and furniture. We also strive to ensure that the women see a doctor right away to obtain an ultrasound and to start receiving prenatal care.
Through the years many women have expressed tremendous relief that they came to LAPS and learned more about what abortion truly was and the many risks that are involved with this decision. LAPS strives to help women regardless of their background or beliefs.
In a neighborhood with no less than nine abortion clinic businesses, LAPS is a much needed resource to give the woman a chance to enjoy and cherish her child – all free of charge for as long as they need they help. LAPS believes that no woman should have to feel that abortion is her only solution. Every pregnant woman has a right to have the support she needs and deserves to choose life for her child.
LAPS exists thanks to the help of generous private donors and the many churches that value the work that we do. LAPS hopes to expand into a medical clinic equipped with ultrasound in the near future to be able to reach out to more women facing a crisis pregnancy in our community.
Los Angeles Pregnancy Services is located at 2524 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles, California 90057. You can call us at (213) 382-5643.
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