• Consider helping Compassionate Burial for Indigent Babies (CBIB) with their burial costs of roughly $1600 to bury each baby.  Any portion of the cost would be a welcome donation!  CBIB has buried over 180 babies since its founding in 2007.  They bury babies who were aborted, abandoned, & babies whose families are unable to cover the cost of their babies’ burials.  Go here for more information.  
• Collect diapers (especially sizes 4, 5, 6, & pull-ups) for ACCESS Pregnancy
• Donate Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, and Target gift cards to Woman's New Life Clinic.
• Join the annual March for Life in Washington DC &  Louisiana March for Life South in Baton Rouge
• Attend or plan a Life Chain for the First Weekend in October

• Sponsor a retreatant who will be making a Rachel's Vineyard Retreat
• Write a note/card of encouragement to one who will be making a Rachel's Vineyard Retreat
• Donate to St. Vincent Maternity Clinic to sponsor a momma & her baby
• Contact the Office of Catholic Cemeteries to sponsor the name of a baby on the Rachel Weeping statue

• Dr. Susan Caldwell (Metairie) 504-831-3117
• Dr. Bennie Nobles (Metairie) 504-883-3770

Prenatal Diagnosis
Be Not Afraid - an organization that provides comprehensive, practical, and peer-based support to parents experiencing a prenatal diagnosis and carrying to term. For your parish to support parents in this difficult time. 

PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS

Pregnancy Care Centers
Bogalusa
SELA Pregnancy Center (https://selapregnancycenter.com/)
502 Ave F, Bogalusa, LA 70427
985-241-5234

Covington
Northlake Crisis 
Pregnancy Center (https://www.knowmyoptions.net/)
19348 N. 4th St., Covington, LA 70433
985-893-4281

Gretna
Westbank Pregnancy and Family Care Center (https://westbankpregnancy.org/)
539 Lafayette St., Gretna, LA 70053
504-227-9090

Metairie
Access Pregnancy & Referral Center (http://www.accesspregnancy.com/)
921 Aris Ave., Ste. 102 (just off of Veterans Memorial Blvd.), Metairie, LA 70005
504-832-1503

 New Orleans
Woman’s New Life Clinic (http://www.womansnewlife.com/)
4612 S. Claiborne Ave., New Orleans, LA 7125
504-831-3117

Slidell
Crisis Pregnancy Help Center (http://www.crisispregnancyhelp.org/)
550 Gause Blvd Suite B, Slidell, LA 70458
985-643-4357

Respect Life Office Pregnancy/Infant Loss and Miscarriage & Early Infant Death/Burial Information - Click Here

Healing After Abortion  

• Project Rachel — help after an abortion for New Orleans area assistance contact Danna at 504.832.1503  
• Rachel’s Vineyard — post-abortion healing retreats for local information contact Retreat Leaders -- Melanie Baglow -504-710-6458  or Pam Richard -  504-460-9360 
• USCCB Pro-Life Abortion Healing - Order materials here
• Silent No More
• Louisiana Abortion Recovery - Provides healing and resources for women
• Louisiana Abortion Recovery Awareness
• Speak Hope - Louisiana Abortion Recovery
• Abortion Changes You - Confidential space for those touched by abortion wanting to tell their story
• Louisiana Right to Life - Resources for post-abortive couples
• Men and Abortion: Reclaiming Fatherhood
• Marriage Healing after Abortion 
• "Red Bird Ministry's Grieving Parent's Group" This is for mothers and/or fathers who have lost a child for any reason, including abortion. It is held on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm, in the St. Benilde Parish Office (located behind the church) St. Benilde Catholic Church is located at 1901 Division Street, Metairie, LA.  70001.   There is no cost to attend the group.  The contact person is Val Hebert at [email protected] or at 504-427-0327.
• Holy Innocents Prayer Garden memorial plaques

PUBLIC POLICY - Click Here

• Rosary for Life
• 9 Days for Life - USCCB
• Memorial for the Unborn Prayer Service (January,  St. Patrick #1 Cemetery)

“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to spare the life of [baby’s name], the unborn baby that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion.”

- Prayer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church

2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely  from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.

2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being. 

Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, "if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual. . . . It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death sentence."

2275 "Certain attempts to influence chromosomic or genetic inheritance are not therapeutic but are aimed at producing human beings selected according to sex or other predetermined qualities. Such manipulations are contrary to the personal dignity of the human being and his integrity and identity" which are unique and unrepeatable."

From the USCCB:

From Donum Vitae (5):

From the moment of conception, the life of every human being is to be respected in an absolute way because man is the only creature on earth that God has "wished for himself " (16) and the spiritual soul of each man is "immediately created" by God; (17) his whole being bears the image of the Creator. Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves "the creative action of God" (18) and it remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end.(19) God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can, in any circumstance, claim for himself the right to destroy directly an innocent human being.