Objectives of Pregnancy Help

Hence, the main objectives of Pregnancy Help (Bunbury) as set out in the Constitution are as follows:

To propose and offer through education, action and services, alternatives to abortion, thereby providing more positive choices for the woman distressed by pregnancy
To provide crisis and confidential counselling to enable a personal and informed choice to he made, free from outside pressures, with a background of accurate information about abortion, legal guardianship, single parent and other options.
To provide practical and material assistance and emotional support such as pregnancy testing, baby clothes and baby furniture, maternity clothes, self help support groups and suchlike.
To undertake programs which focus on preventative and educative services, especially talks to community groups and school students, and disseminating positive information about relationships, sexuality and pregnancy, through group work, seminars, personal support, etc.
To educate clients and other persons and groups by disseminating accurate information about abortion itself, its disadvantages and possible side effects.
To facilitate the provision of and/or accessing of post-abortion counselling for women who have had an abortion or other persons distressed by an abortion in their family
Where appropriate, to refer clients to other agencies for social security benefits, ante/post natal care, emergency accommodation, parenting and child care skills, and longer term professional personal, family and marital counselling.

The fundamental principle of the agency is to support and nurture the intrinsic value of human life and therefore Pregnancy Help (Bunbury) does not advise, provide or refer for abortion or abortifacients. The agency seeks to engender an atmosphere whereby clients are enabled to become fully self-determining and therefore the services of Pregnancy Help are provided to clients in a non-judgemental manner and without discrimination regarding race, creed, sex, colour, national origin, age or marital status.

Pregnancy Help (Bunbury) does not engage in counselling techniques which may jeopardise the integrity of the agency as a reputable and ethical counselling and support service. Scare tactics which are explicitly and aggressively anti-abortion such as pictures, slides or film of aborted foetuses, or exaggerated descriptions of the medical and psychological consequences of abortion are unacceptable within Pregnancy Help because these methods impair a client’s capacity to make her decision in a free, caring and accepting atmosphere.