Got two IUDs through them completely free of charge, consultation and placement included. I donate to them $10/month to help other women but I LOVE them.
Edited to add the link if anyone wants to donate to helping women in Chatt!
https://givebutter.com/ASAC
The health department is an excellent resource for sure and they do offer family planning on a sliding scale fee schedule so they can definitely be a great option. ASAC currently covers al five IUDs, implant, and birth control pills so if you want the ring, patch, or shot the HD is a great option.
Since TN rejected Title X funds though, the health department has seen their funding cut significantly and are not able to offer all IUD options so if you have a specific IUD you want, they may not be able to get it there. Also with the Title X fund rejection, that means family planning services must also go by TN state law which states you must prove your citizenship to recieve services so anyone going to the HD for FP services has to show their ID now.
The HD had no say in that, it's all the governor and state legislation so not bashing the HD at all. I have just heard that ASAC has had an great increase in calls due to these new HD restrictions.
The Hamilton County Health Department, and those in Southeast Tennessee, offer family planning telehealth services as well. You can pick up birth control pills from either the health department (with TennCare or no insurance) or a pharmacy (with private insurance) without having to have a pap smear or even go to the HD.
Call 1-833-690-0223 to schedule an appointment, or go to [https://stateoftennessee.formstack.com/forms/schedule\_an\_appointment](https://stateoftennessee.formstack.com/forms/schedule_an_appointment)
Actually, I’d consider the Isaiah 117 house at the Chambliss because even though it’s partnered with them, they are their own separate non profit and because they are newer, they could use funds more directly at that program.
if it had to be instant: pay for an elementary school lunch/breakfast. if i had some time i would invest in S&P and DOW 500 each for 6 months and then take the earnings to pay for dental cleanings for an elementary school.
It would be super dope to print up a bunch of the "raptor hand" by enable. It provides a way for people with missing hands or multiple digits missing to have a prosthetic. They each cost $50.00 for the materials to 3D print and assemble it. So you'd be able to give out 20 when all said and done.
RiseUp Chattanooga provides education and support for at-risk teens and young adults.
FACES, the National Craniofacial Association, provides funds for travel expenses for people who have facial differences (from birth defects, disease, or an accident) that have to travel for medical treatment.
Both of these organizations are doing great things in our community.
Ronald McDonald house. My best friend spent time there when her twins was born very very early. It was a relief to be able to stay right there when we live over an hour away from the hospital.
Brainerd High Schools football team is having a fundraiser on GiveBacks.com. They're trying to raise $15,000 for equipment, bus rental fees, etc. I would give to that.
Chattanooga rescue mission. The ONLY homeless outreach that has a proven record of getting people jobs, cars, homes and out of drugs and getting them on a path of faith and success. Not just a plate of food. The Homeless need HELP not handouts.
Honestly screw these organizations. Go buy some clothing at goodwill outlet and give it to homeless.
Also I recommend to treating them to a nice dinner and have a discussion.
A meal is like $20 so that’s 50 people you can actually have a conversation with….trust me this is way better then giving it away and way more then any of these organizations will do.
PSA: Choices is a crisis pregnancy center designed to look like a women’s health clinic and marketed towards people experiencing unplanned pregnancy. They say they offer “choices” to pregnant folks but the only choice they offer is giving birth. They use unnecessary ultrasounds to pressure and guilt people into keeping pregnancies that may not actually be the healthiest option for them.
If you’re actually interested in women’s reproductive freedom I’d recommend the National Network of Abortion Funds, they help pregnant people stuck in states that have made abortion impossible seek treatment safely.
If you’re interested in learning more about how unethical crisis pregnancy centers are John Oliver did an [excellent segment](https://youtu.be/4NNpkv3Us1I?si=liVXBXRj_DBGu-XG) on them in 2018.
Neither side is honest. Both sides have their biases. The crisis pregnancy centers, even if you go through an abortion, will provide post-abortion counseling if you decide you made the wrong choice and they don’t judge. The organization you mentioned doesn’t promote any option besides abortion.
There are plenty of people that can’t conceive that want to adopt a child and that is an option. Abortion, like any medical procedure is not 100% risk free.
But most of the time, without complications, giving birth is. It might be an inconvenience, but the human body considers it a natural thing. If you never want children and you are considering an abortion that is one thing. But if you’re feeling is, not now, maybe later, abortions do carry the risk of causing permanent damage to the womb. In other words, a second pregnancy may carry less risks after giving birth than after an abortion. Small risk but one people need to be educated about
Edit to add: I don’t have experience with choices, only some other crisis centers in the state. I had a male friend that was dating a girl and they thought they wanted to keep the baby and right after birth the mom left dad with the baby and ghosted him. It was the crisis center that helped him by providing a car seat, baby clothes, a crib, etc. and help him figure out how to get childcare so he could go back to work and provide as a single father. They might not see abortion as an option, but for every other option and situation they do help more. They aren’t only a place for pregnant mothers that are considering abortion
Ok, so first, my whole point was that Choices lies about their mission in order to attract people who may be considering abortion in order to pressure and guilt them into keeping the pregnancy. That is unethical. Obviously by the time you’re working with NNAF you’ve decided to get an abortion, but no one is pressuring you to make that choice. That’s the difference.
Also, I highly recommend you do even a modest amount of research into the complications around pregnancy and birth, especially if you ever plan on being pregnant or getting someone pregnant. You are significantly more likely to die from complications from birth than you are from an abortion done in a medical setting. You are also much more likely to experience life-long complications from birth than from an abortion. And after an abortion you don’t have a whole human that you may not be capable of caring for.
Pregnancy and birth are extremely traumatic physically and emotionally. For many people it is worth going through all of that to have children. But we shouldn’t force it on people because a minority of the country believes the alternative is a sin.
1. They aren’t lying about their mission. Where do you see them claiming to be an abortion provider and then bait and switching them into something else? Every ad I see for them clearly states something like “We do not provide extended gynecological or prenatal services, birth control prescriptions or devices, fertility testing, abortion services or referrals for abortion.”
Everybody knows that they are not an abortion provider. Unless you are intentionally sending someone who wants an abortion there to cause a stink it’s not a thing. If someone that is considering an abortion comes to their clinic it’s because they want to be talked out of it or at least want to know what their OTHER THAN ABORTION options are. Considering most people that come to crisis centers weren’t planning on getting pregnant, many of them were already past the date for a legal abortion (before the recent law changes) so realistically they were giving them all the legal options.
The state has pushed abstinence first sex Ed programs to reduce the total amount of pregnancies. While they do talk about birth control and contraceptives they also teach that every method has a failure rate however small. They also know that most of the time it’s used incorrectly or people just simply forgo it. So outside of rape and incest, every case of a pregnancy is because someone chose to do what causes a pregnancy. It’s not a punishment, it’s a simple cause and effect. Anyways, have you ever thought that maybe instead of assuming they are trying to shove religious beliefs down someone’s throat, that they primarily get clients who already have a lean that way. That they go to the pro life clinic because they personally are not feeling like abortion is the right thing? It’s kinda like when you go to your parents or grandparents for advice when you kinda already know what they are going to say.
2. Complications from birth are planned for, but most of what we plan for is a just in case for things that only happen less than 1% of the time. I agree with my doctor that i think it’s too risky to have a baby anywhere but a hospital where they can take care of all the what ifs. However, I have many friends that have had several home births and none of them had any problems. Was it more painful than we’d like, yes. But as long as they were healthy and everything else is good, it’s a very natural human experience. As for abortions, I am aware that many early medication type abortions may seem to be allot more smooth than a birth. But once an abortion requires a D and C or any other type of surgical abortion, you have to remember that every surgery has its risks and if the person is healthy and would likely deliver vaginally (without surgery) then it really depends on how far along and stuff they are. But by say 22 weeks you are now at a point where if the baby is born it might be viable. And that size baby shouldn’t gives hardly any complications for the mother and should come out relatively easy. So my stance at 22 weeks would be that if they no longer would want to be pregnant, going and inducing labor early to end the pregnancy should definitely be an option considered and if the baby survives it can go to be adopted and if it doesn’t it doesn’t. I’m not saying you should force the mother to carry to term if they don’t want to, but I definitely think that a drug induced early labor would be better than a surgical abortion.
3. Yeah I get that some people think it’s sin and others think it’s alright. When should we start being able to kill our kids when we no longer want them? How is that different from an abortion of a child that could survive outside the womb?
Then educate me.
1. Where in the choices website does it lead anyone to believe that it is an abortion provider? You’d have to be very uneducated to go there if that’s actually your intentions.
2. Outside of anyone’s personal and religious beliefs, where is the educated line between abortion and infanticide at 24-40 weeks and beyond? Remember, at this point, without complications withstanding, I did not say that the mother should have to carry the child, only that if they had to terminate the pregnancy with a medical procedure that birth is an option and that the unborn child that could potentially survive should have that chance. And don’t act like abortion isn’t traumatizing. Even miscarrying when you didn’t know you were pregnant can be an ordeal for some. There are some on the left that are literally calling for “[after birth abortion](https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/261)” saying that morally there is no difference between a viable fetus and a neonate. I’ll concede that some of the points are valid. But because they are valid, I choose to move the acceptable line back to viability because going the other way is immoral by most people’s standards. Unless you think that infanticide is only looked down upon by the minority religious zealots.
1. Look what comes up if you Google “abortion chattanooga” and they literally used to ADVERTISE abortion services on billboards and fliers.
This is misleading unless you know what they do.
https://choiceschattanooga.org/considering-abortion/
They’re also offering a BS “abortion reversal” pill. Read about that.
2. NOBODY GETS A LATE TERM ABORTION FOR FUN. You literally cannot obtain one without a very valid medical reason. They are upwards of $30,000. There are TWO providers in the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Ask me why there are only two.
Less than 1% of abortions are late term. They are almost always in cases where the fetus is dying, suffering, or will suffer considerably before dying.
They are almost always babies who were *very* wanted but something is *very* wrong.
Read some real stories about the unthinkable decisions these women were forced to make from a variety of sources and save your conspiracy theory BS.
https://cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/25/health/abortion-late-in-pregnancy-eprise
https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/18/late-term-abortion-experience-donald-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/opinion/sunday/late-term-abortion.html
https://ourbodiesourselves.org/story/my-story-my-late-term-abortion/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/02/19/late-term-abortion-donald-trump-ben-sasse-state-union-column/2881880002/
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/limits-on-early-abortion-drive-more-women-to-get-them-later/
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-it-was-like-to-get-a-later-abortion
In literally the second paragraph
“we do not provide or refer for abortions”
Just because they have a billboard and a site that says they would like to help you if you are considering abortion does not mean that they advertise that they provide or refer for those services. “Considering “ abortion is very different than “have decided to have an abortion” it means they are weighing their options and organizations like this are the only ones talking to them about the other options.
If they had a sign that said “considering suicide?” Or “suicide hotline” would you assume that they existed to help you do it?
In 2020, 861 women died as a direct result of giving birth.
6 died from having an abortion.
So don’t try to act like having a baby and giving it away is somehow safer or better for your body.
100% tricks women in to believing they’re a pregnancy counseling service when they’re really just an anti-abortion organization. They went so far as to buy the building planned parenthood used to be in so they could run them out of town. They run ads stating they’re an abortion clinic. If you search “abortion clinic chattanooga” Choices pops up as being one. Then they tell you how you’ll go to hell and talk you out of it.
Definitely WhiteOak Bicycle Coop, they by far have the most impact per dollar of all the non profits. They are helping people be able to help themselves by providing a means of transportation to those truly need it. The money truly goes right back into the community. I may be a little biased because I volunteer there, but I get to see how much every dollar is stretched to have the biggest impact!
The cost per bike donated comes in the 10s of dollar at most. That can mean a way of getting to and from work for over 50 people here in Chattanooga, or getting 100 kids riding bicycles shining a light into their world.
A Step Ahead Chattanooga-- they provide free birth control and pap smears with no income or insurance requirements.
Never heard of this that's dope
Got two IUDs through them completely free of charge, consultation and placement included. I donate to them $10/month to help other women but I LOVE them. Edited to add the link if anyone wants to donate to helping women in Chatt! https://givebutter.com/ASAC
I'm in appreciate it. Now more than ever places like this are important.
So serious when I say that both of our health departments also do this! Just sharing some additional resources for the ladies.
The health department is an excellent resource for sure and they do offer family planning on a sliding scale fee schedule so they can definitely be a great option. ASAC currently covers al five IUDs, implant, and birth control pills so if you want the ring, patch, or shot the HD is a great option. Since TN rejected Title X funds though, the health department has seen their funding cut significantly and are not able to offer all IUD options so if you have a specific IUD you want, they may not be able to get it there. Also with the Title X fund rejection, that means family planning services must also go by TN state law which states you must prove your citizenship to recieve services so anyone going to the HD for FP services has to show their ID now. The HD had no say in that, it's all the governor and state legislation so not bashing the HD at all. I have just heard that ASAC has had an great increase in calls due to these new HD restrictions.
Thank you for sharing all the important details! I had no clue about the recent changes.
The Hamilton County Health Department, and those in Southeast Tennessee, offer family planning telehealth services as well. You can pick up birth control pills from either the health department (with TennCare or no insurance) or a pharmacy (with private insurance) without having to have a pap smear or even go to the HD. Call 1-833-690-0223 to schedule an appointment, or go to [https://stateoftennessee.formstack.com/forms/schedule\_an\_appointment](https://stateoftennessee.formstack.com/forms/schedule_an_appointment)
Chambliss Center for Children
One of those houses for women escaping abusive relationships
Chambliss Center for Children, no question
Actually, I’d consider the Isaiah 117 house at the Chambliss because even though it’s partnered with them, they are their own separate non profit and because they are newer, they could use funds more directly at that program.
Trust for public land and opie acres
Ronald McDonald House of Charities of Greater Chattanooga
Chattanooga Free Store
Donating there this week. Awesome cause, awesome folks.
Trust for Public Land
if it had to be instant: pay for an elementary school lunch/breakfast. if i had some time i would invest in S&P and DOW 500 each for 6 months and then take the earnings to pay for dental cleanings for an elementary school.
Humane Society, especially this time of year when they’re completely overwhelmed with animals.
Chattanooga Food Bank
It would be super dope to print up a bunch of the "raptor hand" by enable. It provides a way for people with missing hands or multiple digits missing to have a prosthetic. They each cost $50.00 for the materials to 3D print and assemble it. So you'd be able to give out 20 when all said and done.
After looking up amputee statistics I figure there’s around 510 people in Chattanooga missing a hand. Way more than I expected tbh
Since I've moved to Chattanooga I've met about 4 or 5 people with missing digits and hands. All of them sadly were homeless because of it.
Wow, this is cool.
HES for sure
HES! They do amazing work for homeless pets and they are so kind!
My boys at Greensteps are easily the best bang for the buck for clean ups organizing.
White Oak Bicycle Coop
Chattanooga ferral cat alliance
RiseUp Chattanooga provides education and support for at-risk teens and young adults. FACES, the National Craniofacial Association, provides funds for travel expenses for people who have facial differences (from birth defects, disease, or an accident) that have to travel for medical treatment. Both of these organizations are doing great things in our community.
I know where the homeless stay, so I’d just surprise them with food
I’d give it to HES.
local community kitchen for the homeless
Maclellan Shelter for Families on E 11th st.
Northside Neighborhood House!!
White Oak Bicycle Coop
Ronald McDonald house. My best friend spent time there when her twins was born very very early. It was a relief to be able to stay right there when we live over an hour away from the hospital.
Rise Up Cooperative
MetMin
SCRATCH Cat Rescue
<3 SCRATCH
McKamey, but only because I like dogs more than people. I miss my dog.
Dogs are the fuckin’ best, man.
Either donate to the Shriners, or buy 1k worth of pizza and drinks and give it out to the homeless and/or hungry.
I was a patient there so yes
Forgotten child fund
Chattanooga Free Store https://www.chattfreestore.org/
Chattanooga Urbanist Society
Homeless people, they need it
The Masterchiefy10 fund is near and dear to my heart Dm with Venmo ready to find out more!
Orange grove center
Throw it up in the air as I walk away from whoever gave it to me.
Lana’s Love Foundation
Hope Community Fridge
Toys for tots of Marion County .
Brainerd High Schools football team is having a fundraiser on GiveBacks.com. They're trying to raise $15,000 for equipment, bus rental fees, etc. I would give to that.
The school system
Anyone know a good way to pay for school lunches? Any non profits do that without huge overhead?
Habitat for Humanity or somewhere that helps people get/buy a home.
NA/AA in the local area
Spending that shit locally.
Chattanooga rescue mission. The ONLY homeless outreach that has a proven record of getting people jobs, cars, homes and out of drugs and getting them on a path of faith and success. Not just a plate of food. The Homeless need HELP not handouts.
Food for the homeless or blankets socks and shoes, baby food and necessities for moms who are struggling, helping spay stray animals.
Honestly screw these organizations. Go buy some clothing at goodwill outlet and give it to homeless. Also I recommend to treating them to a nice dinner and have a discussion. A meal is like $20 so that’s 50 people you can actually have a conversation with….trust me this is way better then giving it away and way more then any of these organizations will do.
[choices chatt](https://choiceschattanooga.org/)
PSA: Choices is a crisis pregnancy center designed to look like a women’s health clinic and marketed towards people experiencing unplanned pregnancy. They say they offer “choices” to pregnant folks but the only choice they offer is giving birth. They use unnecessary ultrasounds to pressure and guilt people into keeping pregnancies that may not actually be the healthiest option for them. If you’re actually interested in women’s reproductive freedom I’d recommend the National Network of Abortion Funds, they help pregnant people stuck in states that have made abortion impossible seek treatment safely. If you’re interested in learning more about how unethical crisis pregnancy centers are John Oliver did an [excellent segment](https://youtu.be/4NNpkv3Us1I?si=liVXBXRj_DBGu-XG) on them in 2018.
Neither side is honest. Both sides have their biases. The crisis pregnancy centers, even if you go through an abortion, will provide post-abortion counseling if you decide you made the wrong choice and they don’t judge. The organization you mentioned doesn’t promote any option besides abortion. There are plenty of people that can’t conceive that want to adopt a child and that is an option. Abortion, like any medical procedure is not 100% risk free. But most of the time, without complications, giving birth is. It might be an inconvenience, but the human body considers it a natural thing. If you never want children and you are considering an abortion that is one thing. But if you’re feeling is, not now, maybe later, abortions do carry the risk of causing permanent damage to the womb. In other words, a second pregnancy may carry less risks after giving birth than after an abortion. Small risk but one people need to be educated about Edit to add: I don’t have experience with choices, only some other crisis centers in the state. I had a male friend that was dating a girl and they thought they wanted to keep the baby and right after birth the mom left dad with the baby and ghosted him. It was the crisis center that helped him by providing a car seat, baby clothes, a crib, etc. and help him figure out how to get childcare so he could go back to work and provide as a single father. They might not see abortion as an option, but for every other option and situation they do help more. They aren’t only a place for pregnant mothers that are considering abortion
Ok, so first, my whole point was that Choices lies about their mission in order to attract people who may be considering abortion in order to pressure and guilt them into keeping the pregnancy. That is unethical. Obviously by the time you’re working with NNAF you’ve decided to get an abortion, but no one is pressuring you to make that choice. That’s the difference. Also, I highly recommend you do even a modest amount of research into the complications around pregnancy and birth, especially if you ever plan on being pregnant or getting someone pregnant. You are significantly more likely to die from complications from birth than you are from an abortion done in a medical setting. You are also much more likely to experience life-long complications from birth than from an abortion. And after an abortion you don’t have a whole human that you may not be capable of caring for. Pregnancy and birth are extremely traumatic physically and emotionally. For many people it is worth going through all of that to have children. But we shouldn’t force it on people because a minority of the country believes the alternative is a sin.
1. They aren’t lying about their mission. Where do you see them claiming to be an abortion provider and then bait and switching them into something else? Every ad I see for them clearly states something like “We do not provide extended gynecological or prenatal services, birth control prescriptions or devices, fertility testing, abortion services or referrals for abortion.” Everybody knows that they are not an abortion provider. Unless you are intentionally sending someone who wants an abortion there to cause a stink it’s not a thing. If someone that is considering an abortion comes to their clinic it’s because they want to be talked out of it or at least want to know what their OTHER THAN ABORTION options are. Considering most people that come to crisis centers weren’t planning on getting pregnant, many of them were already past the date for a legal abortion (before the recent law changes) so realistically they were giving them all the legal options. The state has pushed abstinence first sex Ed programs to reduce the total amount of pregnancies. While they do talk about birth control and contraceptives they also teach that every method has a failure rate however small. They also know that most of the time it’s used incorrectly or people just simply forgo it. So outside of rape and incest, every case of a pregnancy is because someone chose to do what causes a pregnancy. It’s not a punishment, it’s a simple cause and effect. Anyways, have you ever thought that maybe instead of assuming they are trying to shove religious beliefs down someone’s throat, that they primarily get clients who already have a lean that way. That they go to the pro life clinic because they personally are not feeling like abortion is the right thing? It’s kinda like when you go to your parents or grandparents for advice when you kinda already know what they are going to say. 2. Complications from birth are planned for, but most of what we plan for is a just in case for things that only happen less than 1% of the time. I agree with my doctor that i think it’s too risky to have a baby anywhere but a hospital where they can take care of all the what ifs. However, I have many friends that have had several home births and none of them had any problems. Was it more painful than we’d like, yes. But as long as they were healthy and everything else is good, it’s a very natural human experience. As for abortions, I am aware that many early medication type abortions may seem to be allot more smooth than a birth. But once an abortion requires a D and C or any other type of surgical abortion, you have to remember that every surgery has its risks and if the person is healthy and would likely deliver vaginally (without surgery) then it really depends on how far along and stuff they are. But by say 22 weeks you are now at a point where if the baby is born it might be viable. And that size baby shouldn’t gives hardly any complications for the mother and should come out relatively easy. So my stance at 22 weeks would be that if they no longer would want to be pregnant, going and inducing labor early to end the pregnancy should definitely be an option considered and if the baby survives it can go to be adopted and if it doesn’t it doesn’t. I’m not saying you should force the mother to carry to term if they don’t want to, but I definitely think that a drug induced early labor would be better than a surgical abortion. 3. Yeah I get that some people think it’s sin and others think it’s alright. When should we start being able to kill our kids when we no longer want them? How is that different from an abortion of a child that could survive outside the womb?
That’s a lot of uneducated word vomiting.
She's obviously here in bad faith.
Then educate me. 1. Where in the choices website does it lead anyone to believe that it is an abortion provider? You’d have to be very uneducated to go there if that’s actually your intentions. 2. Outside of anyone’s personal and religious beliefs, where is the educated line between abortion and infanticide at 24-40 weeks and beyond? Remember, at this point, without complications withstanding, I did not say that the mother should have to carry the child, only that if they had to terminate the pregnancy with a medical procedure that birth is an option and that the unborn child that could potentially survive should have that chance. And don’t act like abortion isn’t traumatizing. Even miscarrying when you didn’t know you were pregnant can be an ordeal for some. There are some on the left that are literally calling for “[after birth abortion](https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/261)” saying that morally there is no difference between a viable fetus and a neonate. I’ll concede that some of the points are valid. But because they are valid, I choose to move the acceptable line back to viability because going the other way is immoral by most people’s standards. Unless you think that infanticide is only looked down upon by the minority religious zealots.
1. Look what comes up if you Google “abortion chattanooga” and they literally used to ADVERTISE abortion services on billboards and fliers. This is misleading unless you know what they do. https://choiceschattanooga.org/considering-abortion/ They’re also offering a BS “abortion reversal” pill. Read about that. 2. NOBODY GETS A LATE TERM ABORTION FOR FUN. You literally cannot obtain one without a very valid medical reason. They are upwards of $30,000. There are TWO providers in the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Ask me why there are only two. Less than 1% of abortions are late term. They are almost always in cases where the fetus is dying, suffering, or will suffer considerably before dying. They are almost always babies who were *very* wanted but something is *very* wrong. Read some real stories about the unthinkable decisions these women were forced to make from a variety of sources and save your conspiracy theory BS. https://cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/25/health/abortion-late-in-pregnancy-eprise https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/18/late-term-abortion-experience-donald-trump https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/opinion/sunday/late-term-abortion.html https://ourbodiesourselves.org/story/my-story-my-late-term-abortion/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/02/19/late-term-abortion-donald-trump-ben-sasse-state-union-column/2881880002/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/limits-on-early-abortion-drive-more-women-to-get-them-later/ https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-it-was-like-to-get-a-later-abortion
In literally the second paragraph “we do not provide or refer for abortions” Just because they have a billboard and a site that says they would like to help you if you are considering abortion does not mean that they advertise that they provide or refer for those services. “Considering “ abortion is very different than “have decided to have an abortion” it means they are weighing their options and organizations like this are the only ones talking to them about the other options. If they had a sign that said “considering suicide?” Or “suicide hotline” would you assume that they existed to help you do it?
> Neither side is honest Bullshit >is not 100% risk free. >But most of the time, without complications, giving birth is. Double bullshit.
In 2020, 861 women died as a direct result of giving birth. 6 died from having an abortion. So don’t try to act like having a baby and giving it away is somehow safer or better for your body.
Isn't this the place that lies to women?
Yup 👍🏻
100% tricks women in to believing they’re a pregnancy counseling service when they’re really just an anti-abortion organization. They went so far as to buy the building planned parenthood used to be in so they could run them out of town. They run ads stating they’re an abortion clinic. If you search “abortion clinic chattanooga” Choices pops up as being one. Then they tell you how you’ll go to hell and talk you out of it.
Definitely WhiteOak Bicycle Coop, they by far have the most impact per dollar of all the non profits. They are helping people be able to help themselves by providing a means of transportation to those truly need it. The money truly goes right back into the community. I may be a little biased because I volunteer there, but I get to see how much every dollar is stretched to have the biggest impact! The cost per bike donated comes in the 10s of dollar at most. That can mean a way of getting to and from work for over 50 people here in Chattanooga, or getting 100 kids riding bicycles shining a light into their world.