A Network of Pro-life Maternity Homes Is Celebrating Their 1,000th Baby Born

Claire Chretien : Sep 21, 2016
LifeSiteNews.com

"We take any pregnant mother in need and give her an opportunity to go back to school, to find a job, and we offer free day care in our home."

[LifeSiteNews.com] Good Counsel homes, a network of pro-life maternity homes, celebrated its 1,000th birth in June, which its president said was just as miraculous as every other birth. (Photo: Shutterstock/via LifeSiteNews)

"It's a milestone, [but] the reality is every child, every person is uniquely made by God," Good Counsel President Chris Bell told LifeSiteNews.
 
"I think about how unique God makes everything, even every single blade of grass," he said. "There is nothing that is a copy or that ever was before or that ever will be again. ... God is creating new life all the time and that life also gives us an opportunity to serve and to grow and to know in a human way, God, even more."

Good Counsel runs six maternity homes, five of which are on the East Coast. Its newest home is on the Gulf Coast of Alabama.
 
"Mia Rose was the 1,000th baby born, and her mom was in ... it's unfortunate to say, a not unusual situation where she could not live at home during that period of time after she conceived," Bell explained. "We take any pregnant mother in need and give her an opportunity to go back to school, to find a job, and we offer free day care in our home."
 
What makes Good Counsel homes unique is that they accept any mother—particularly homeless mothers—and provide her with holistic care that respects her life and the life of her unborn child.
 
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