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In 1989, being
Jorge Serrano Limon the president of the National Pro-Life
Comittee, in Mexico, he attended an international conference convened
by Human Life International (HLI) in New Orleans, United States,
where he met Magaly Llaguno, executive director of Vida Humana
Internacional, the Hispanic section of HLI. At that congress
participated as a lecturer Laura Nelson, founder of the Crisis Pregnancy
Centers in Chicago. She recounted how the abortion, far from being the
solution to their unexpected pregnancy, the experience proved to be the
most unpleasant in his life as it left her a very big emptiness. She said:
"If someone would have explained to me what was going to happen and what
the abortion is, I wouldn´t never done it." Jorge met with Laura to see
the possibility of doing the same job in Mexico.
One month
after the Congress, Jorge was invited to a debate on the radio on
abortion, Where an anti-life feminist questioned him about what was doing
the Pro-Life Committee for Women which are facing an unexpected
pregnancy.
Both the interview with Laura Nelson and his attendance
to the Congress of HLI and the debate, did that members of the Pro-Life
Committee, raised the possibility of opening immediately an Aid Center for
Women (CAM) in Mexico. Thus, on August 15 1989, the first CAM opens its
doors in Mexico City. There are currently 40 CAM's in Mexico and have
served more than 60,000 women, of whom We are certain that 85% of them
abandoned the idea of an abortion.
Many years later, during a
Pro-Life congress in Guadalajara, Mexico organized with the support of
Human Life International (HIV), Jorge Serrano suggested Magaly Llaguno the
idea of establishing a network to unite efforts at the international level
and create CAMs as those of Mexico, throughout Latin America. The women
aid network that emerged to promote the health and welfare of women in the
Hispanic world through assistance services and education is now a reality
thanks to God and the unity and cooperation that was established since.
The network project is being carried out now, with the support of Human
Life International and Vida Humana Internacional, its Hispanic
section.
Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical
Evangelium Vitae on the importance of helping the pregnant women in
crisis:
"Newborn life is also served by centers of
assistance and homes or centers where new life receives a welcome. Thanks
to the work of such centers, many unmarried mothers and couples in
difficulty discover new hope and find assistance and support in overcoming
hardship and the fear of accepting a newly conceived life or life which
has just come into the world (EV # 88). A mother welcomes and carries in
herself another human being, enabling it to grow inside her, giving it
room, respecting it in its otherness. Women first learn and then teach
others that human relations are authentic if they are open to accepting
the other person: a person who is recognized and loved because of the
dignity which comes from being a person and not from other considerations,
such as usefulness, strength, intelligence, beauty or health" (EV # 99).
We thank God for chosen us as instrument to offer a choice of life
to all those who face an unexpected pregnancy and are at the crossroads of
abortion. We ask Him for His blessing and to enable us to keep working
without losing sight that this work is His and these Centers to Help Women
are a mean to consolidate the Culture of Life worldwide.
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