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A faith-centered "life center" that assists women who are experiencing situation pregnancies precocious opened a new, expanded installation successful Austin, Texas, to amended meet nan expanding demands for its services.
The John Paul II Life Center was established successful 2010 by 2 joined couples, Tim and Pat Von Dohlen and Chris and Sheri Danze. They were seeking "to return nan teachings of the Catholic Church connected protection of quality life from conception to earthy decease and to assistance those successful request and put their religion into action."
As a result, nan John Paul II (JPII) Center opened pinch nan purpose of providing women-centric "holistic care" for those who are experiencing an unexpected aliases situation gestation — wholly free of charge.
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"Every JPII Life Center customer receives a free gestation test, free sonogram, and a customer advocator who walks pinch her done her options and answers her questions," nan JPII Center said.
Here's a deeper dive into nan services offered.
Every female receives a sonogram free of complaint from nan John Paul II Life Center. The halfway precocious expanded to a caller larger field successful Austin, Texas. (John Paul II Life Center)
‘All walks of life’
There is nary "typical" customer astatine nan JPII Center.
"The women we service travel from each walks of life, and we do not discriminate based connected race, religion, circumstances aliases status," nan halfway says, noting that "most of our clients are debased income/poverty level, and progressively immigrants."
Still, "anyone pregnant aliases pinch a kid nether [age] 3 tin person free services and non-judgmental care," said nan JPII Center.
Once it is confirmed that nan female is so pregnant, and she decides against having an abortion, she past tin take to person prenatal care, for free, astatine nan Vitae Clinic aliases astatine different doctor.
"We do not discriminate based connected race, religion, circumstances aliases status."
The Vitae Clinic is located alongside nan JPII Center and is simply a Catholic-based OBGYN practice. The 2 activity successful tandem.
"Vitae" is nan Latin connection for life.
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Whichever expert a female chooses, "we tin supply her pinch nan applicable resources, financial assistance, acquisition and attraction she needs to thief her execute financial and affectional stability," said nan JPII Center.
About 25% of nan Vitae Clinic's patients person services done nan JPII Center, and galore of these women are under-insured aliases do not person insurance.
The different 75% are women who "desire our much holistic exemplary of care" and person accepted insurance.
"The Vitae Clinic uses Natural Procreative Technology (NaProTECHNOLOGY) to supply tailor-made attraction that useful cooperatively pinch a woman’s body," Dr. Jeremy Kalamarides, Vitae's aesculapian director, told Fox News Digital.
The John Paul II Life Center and nan Vitae Clinic are located successful Austin, Texas. About a 4th of Vitae's patients are under-insured aliases un-insured. (John Paul II Life Center)
He continued, "This allows america to reside nan guidelines origin of a woman’s aesculapian issues alternatively than treating her symptoms alone," he said.
This unorthodox measurement of operating ensures that nan Vitae Clinic is capable to enactment afloat financially, while besides serving those who are little fortunate.
"The extremity of our unsocial exemplary is that nan gross from nan Vitae Clinic patients covers nan operating expenses for nan session arsenic good arsenic nan aesculapian services needed for JPII clients," said nan JPII Center.
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The relationship pinch nan Vitae Clinic besides intends that nan JPII Center has much aesculapian unit than a emblematic gestation assets center.
"We are nan only center successful Texas, to our knowledge, that has 2 full-time OB/GYNs connected unit daily, arsenic good arsenic nurses, sonographers, aesculapian assistants and customer advocates to thief a susceptible female facing an unplanned gestation make an informed decision," nan JPII Center told Fox News Digital.
Tim Van Dohlen, right, and Pat Van Dohlen, left, are 2 of nan John Paul II Life Center's co-founders. The halfway celebrated its relocation connected April 4. (John Paul II Life Center)
Far beyond nan scope of pregnancy
The services offered to women astatine nan JPII Center besides spell acold beyond nan scope of gestation thief and prenatal care.
A programme called Work Wheels assists women pinch car repairs aliases purchases truthful that they tin safely commute to and from a job, said nan JPII Center.
This programme was developed successful business pinch a local Catholic parish's men's ministry.
"All JPII clients who person received thief from Work Wheels are now moving and reclaiming power of their life and family," said nan JPII Center.
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JPII besides has programs to assistance pinch paying rent and utilities.
"All of our services and programs are meant to supply dream for nan future. [It's] a helping manus — not conscionable a handout," said nan JPII Center.
Since mid-2022, 51 of nan 54 women who person received assistance pinch rent nary longer request nan thief and "are connected nan way to financial sustainability."
Work Wheels, 1 of nan programs offered astatine nan John Paul II Life Center, assists women pinch uncovering a safe car truthful they tin commute to and from work. (John Paul II Life Center)
The JPII Center's description comes astatine a clip erstwhile its services person been successful progressively higher demand. In 2024, nan JPII Center is connected way to service triple nan number of women it served successful 2021.
"The request for services has greatly accrued since 2021. This is owed successful portion to nan Dobbs decision, but chiefly to ostentation and occupation insecurity, arsenic good arsenic migration and organization maturation successful Central Texas," Sandra Rodriquez, JPII's head of customer services, told Fox News Digital.
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The women who travel to nan JPII Center are "abortion vulnerable" — and galore person already had 1 aliases much abortions successful nan past. They often judge that their circumstances dictate abortion is their only option.
"Their ‘crisis’ is not nan child, but nan circumstances astir their pregnancy; erstwhile they cognize we person resources disposable to thief them, galore consciousness empowered to take life," JPII Center customer advocator Gloria Lizcano told Fox News Digital.
Anyone who is pregnant aliases has a kid nether nan property of 3 tin person assistance from nan John Paul II Life Center. (John Paul II Life Center)
As immoderate states move to restrict abortion access, nan JPII Center hopes that its exemplary of holistic attraction for pregnant women successful request tin beryllium replicated crossed nan country.
The halfway useful pinch different centers successful different states to thief supply a framework.
"Every female deserves entree to these services, which are basal to making an informed decision. Education is our nationalist impact," said nan JPII Center. "Our programs empower nan adjacent procreation pinch knowledge and compassion for quality life and tin beryllium utilized to prosecute communities passim nan country."
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"We powerfully judge nan JPII tin beryllium nan catalyst to promote different states to return announcement and provide women pinch applicable solutions and life-affirming choices," nan halfway added.
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Christine Rousselle is simply a manner newsman pinch Fox News Digital.
