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4) Buy or build a spacious and comfortable building as a home for indigent or low-income unmarried pregnant women. Provide free room, board and medical care, the sacraments (for Catholic women, of course) catechism instruction, home-ec classes. This would be a proven brick-and-mortar pro-life solution for local women who are tempted by the blandishments of the vile abortion industry. (cost: $1,000,000)
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Your list is pretty complete. Our diocese is doing this (not just for the pregnant, but for homeless women and children more generally) with the Cathedral Center.
The acreage is not strictly needed, but some kind of enclosed, well-landscaped, safe for children's play outdoor space is needed, even if it's only a eighth of a block courtyard. Religious order is also optional; dedicated lay folk specifically called to this type of ministry might be even better --- even people who had been there, done that. A community of folks like a CW house or covenanted community, maybe.
And, the place can't just be built or opened. It needs a trust fund or a steady and dependable flow of alms to keep on providing the types of assistance that need money.
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We used to have such places - they were called 'homes for unwed mothers' and they provided shelter, health care, education, support and counseling services. Alas, all too often the price of admission was to agree to relinquish one's child for adoption. I still think it could and should be done - and I would suggest hiring a staff of midwives, doulas, and pediatric nurse-practitioners to provide prenatal, birth, and postpartum care. A center that was set up with an attached out of hospital birth center could provide care not only to the residents but also to community members, and the birthing center would also provide some income to support the residence. Moms who needed hospital care would be able to have it, but those who didn't would be able to have the empowering experience of a good birth that might help them to parent more effectively.
Unwed, low-income moms are often shuffled into clinic settings that can be impersonal and depersonalizing - especially if they are seen primarily as a source of training fodder for doctors. COnversely, their prenatal and birth care can be managed inexpensively and with potentially life improving support.
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