The 15-minute video below outlines the three pregnancy options: Parenting, Adoption, and Abortion. Additional information can be found in the Pregnancy Options Guide published by Pregnancy Care Canada. For more support, find a local pregnancy care centre…
Updated July 2023 Introduction Pregnancy Care Canada provides comprehensive expertise and mentoring in the field of pregnancy care support. We equip, connect, and empower local pregnancy care centres to serve their communities with excellence. Below is a summary of who we are and what we do. Who is Pregnancy Care Canada? Pregnancy Care Canada (PCC) is a best practice, Christian, national association of pregnancy care centres (also known as crisis…
Charity at work September 2021 by Laura Lewis MD, CCFP Every year across Canada, individuals voluntarily seek help at local pregnancy centres. The support they receive may include a range of services – free of charge and available to all. Last year alone, 31,717 clients chose to attend one of our affiliated pregnancy care centres for help. Many of the clients cared for would be considered vulnerable, marginalized, and lacking…
January 2020 Laura Lewis MD, CCFP I am proud of how pregnancy care centres across our nation cared for the vulnerable when much of the world was shut down. When many businesses and organizations closed their doors in 2020 because of COVID-19, PCC-affiliated pregnancy care centres did not. Instead, they asked, “What can we do? How can we still help?” Centres went to work virtually and continued to…
January 2020 by Laura Lewis MD, CCFP How do we prevent the winds of culture from blowing us off course? 2020 was a challenging year. It was full of tragedy, confusion, polarization, racial tension, the rise of cancel culture, heated intolerance, and much more. I often considered deleting social media and turning off my television to spare myself the biased, often fact-devoid content. However, rather than complete avoidance, I…
April 2, 2020 by Laura Lewis MD, CCFP “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ― Jimmy Dean Navigating chaos with innovation, kindness, and simplicity. There is something about the innate goodness of humankind that replenishes us when facts do not. In the midst of mounting COVID-19 infections and a seeming lack of control over a disease…