the beginnings of my capstone project blogs

today was my first day of training at the Alpha Pregnancy Center. I was taught by my mentor, Ranelle Calub, how to file in new clients and how to package diapers for clients. while these were pretty light and easy tasks, i was also told some very frightening statistics and information. Alpha Pregnancy Center is gospel centered, so they are a pro life organization, which means they lead their clients away from abortion. the main reason women will have abortions is because they cannot financially provide for the baby. Diapers on average cost at least $100 a month. Children are very expensive, and it is nearly every parents dream to give their child everything possible for the best future. Not being able to even provide diapers is a tough reality and making a free abortion seem so much easier. Well at the Alpha Pregnancy Center they provide diapers for free, clothes for free, food for free, as well as high chairs, baby bath tubs, strollers, and cribs all for free! but still in just San Francisco alone there are 50 abortions a day. that is 50 lives that could be contributing to society. 50 children to fill more classrooms. And i had no idea just how terrible an abortion is. there are two main ways to a abort a baby, surgically or medically. An example of a surgical abortion is a hysterotomy which is a premature c-section where the baby is removed from the mothers womb and then left to die on a table. an example of a medical abortion is salt poisoning, where a needle containing salt is inserted into the amniotic fluid surrounding the baby, forcing the baby to die of salt poisoning which ends with the baby's skin burning off of its body, then the baby is delivered dead. it is the makings of a nightmare. but for the most part women who receive abortions do not know what is happening at all. an abortion isn't like any other medical procedure where a doctor sits down with you and explains everything in its entirety. if a mother knew what was going to happen, i doubt she would go through with the abortion. i never knew abortions were so gruesome, and after learning about what happens to the baby it is just really disturbing and feel really strongly to help this center prevent more abortions from happening.