- Pro-life advocate, AbbyJohnson has a new ministry

for pregnant women, it is called LoveLine

and it provides immediatesupport for those in crisis.

Abby joins us now.

Abby, thanks so much for being here.

- Of course, thanks for having me on.

- What was the motivation behindstarting this new ministry?

- Well, in the past 10 years,I've gotten a lot of calls

from women who don't havepregnancy resource centers

in their area, women whojust simply don't know

what resources are available to them.

They don't even knowthe first step to take

and I feel like part of what we need to do

in the pro-life movementis not just to help women

who are currently pregnant,

even though that is ahuge focus of our mission.

But to also help womenwho maybe are struggling.

Maybe they're single moms,

maybe they're a very low-income family

and they just don't knowwhat's available to them.

And so we started getting a lot of emails

and phone calls fromwomen who were in crisis.

And so we wanted to providean actual hotline for them,

and we have gathered alot of materials for women

and we have people 24 hours a day

who are willing to geton the phone with them

and to plug them in to different resources

that are available in their area.

- So it sounds likeit's really going beyond

just a women in her pregnancy

and really extendingto any woman in crisis.

Is it just by phone, is it online,

how does it actually work?

- Yeah, so they can contact us,

they can, sorry,

they can contact us online.

They can also chat with us online,

they can call our hotline.

So there's a lot of differentways that they can get

in touch with us.

But like I said, it is a 24 hour line.

There is somebodyanswering it all the time.

They can text with us.

But we have a lot of waysthat they can get ahold of us

just so that we can plugthem in to the right places.

- It's interesting, and youmentioned this a minute ago,

but how does your work interface

with crisis pregnancy centers?

It seems like there'skind of a patchwork quilt

of support systems forwomen across the country.

- Yeah, so we definitely wantto get women into pregnancy

centers for that continuity of care.

So, but a lot of women don't know

about pregnancy centers in their area.

A lot of women don't understand

what pregnancy centers actually do

and how they can help them.

And so this is a place wherewe can actually partner

with the local pregnancycenter and say hey,

we've got a gal who needs you,we can pair them together.

And get this woman theresources that they need.

So it's just another,

another branch on the tree, right?

People just all working together.

Unifying together to try to get women all

of the help that they need.

- It sounds really beautiful.

Have you had any stories so far

of helping women, someone who'sbeen able to connect here?

- Yeah, I mean we've helpedover 100 women so far

just in the past I wouldsay year and a half

to two years just doing itwithout an official ministry.

We've provided baby showers for women,

we have helped pay rent.

So we have so many storiesof women that have been

touched by the generosity of other people

and who have been able tonetwork with people in their area

who just wanna help.

And it's a great opportunity also for

moms, stay-at-home momsto get involved with

women in their communitywho may need help.

Just this week we have a woman

who's a stay-at-home mom of six children,

she's gonna be connecting with a woman

who's currently living inher car, who's homeless.

And so we're gonna be able to get her

into a more stable situation.

- That's really beautiful.

Abby, thanks for sharingabout Loveline Ministry.

- Thank you so much.