{"id":178711,"date":"2018-02-05T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=178711"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:51:57","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-super-bowl-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/philadelphia-eagles-super-bowl-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl champ tackles abortion in his city"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Pregnancy Help News<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Article originally published on May 11, 2017)<\/em>\u00a0While his upcoming appearance at a kickball tournament isn\u2019t likely to help Philadelphia Eagles free safety Chris Maragos get ready for the 2017 NFL campaign, he still considers it among the most important things he\u2019ll do this offseason.\u00a0Maragos, who won a Super Bowl ring with the 2013 Seattle Seahawks and is entering his fourth season on the Eagles, is set to participate, along with his wife, Serah, at a fundraiser for AlphaCare\u2019s \u201cKick It for Life<\/a>\u201d fundraiser May 27 in Philadelphia. A\u00a0pro-life pregnancy help center that operates a mobile medical unit, AlphaCare began serving women<\/a> just a wall away from the shuttered abortion<\/a> clinic of convicted murder Kermit Gosnell this January, with the ultimate goal to purchase and repurpose the clinic itself.<\/p>\n

Supported by the community since 1981, AlphaCare\u2019s latest fundraising endeavor will go toward a $25,000 goal to fuel the mobile unit, which offers free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and social services to women in need.<\/p>\n

Maragos, an outspoken Christian, said he and his wife were drawn to partner with AlphaCare because of its distinctly Christ-centered approach to meeting the needs of women who feel that abortion is their only way out of a desperate situation.<\/p>\n

Read: NFL Super Bowl champion Matt Birk: I am ‘unapologetically pro-life’<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEach mother with doubt in her heart needs all of us,\u201d Maragos said. \u201cShe needs us, she needs Jesus, to rally around her, to soothe her pain and lift her spirits. She needs to know that she is not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pregnancy, Maragos pointed out, is challenging enough even under ideal circumstances. By every measure<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, for example, most women who resort to abortion do so because they feel alone and abandoned by their families and\u2014most prominently\u2014the father of their unborn babies.<\/p>\n