{"id":213065,"date":"2019-11-18T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=213065"},"modified":"2019-11-18T00:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:13:36","slug":"sisters-of-life-women-unplanned-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sisters-of-life-women-unplanned-pregnancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Sisters of Life: Helping a thousand women with unplanned pregnancies each year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York City, where more African Americans are killed by abortion<\/a> each year than born, might seem like an unlikely place for hope in the pro-life movement. Yet, the Sisters of Life, a 100-plus member strong order of Catholic religious sisters, bring just that to New Yorkers through their direct work with women experiencing unplanned pregnancies<\/a>. Sisters of Life provide housing for pregnant women at their Houses of Respite throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period if needed, helping to cover rent or utility payments. They also provide\u00a0post-abortive healing retreats.<\/a>\u00a0The Sisters work with some 1,000 women experiencing unplanned pregnancies each year, assisted by a volunteer network of over 5,000 from all across the country, called the Co-workers of Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having experienced the uphill battle to end abortion with little result for years, then-Archbishop of New York Cardinal John O’Connor placed an ad in a local Catholic newspaper in 1991<\/a> that read simply: “Help Wanted: Sisters of Life.<\/em>” Eight women answered that original call, and the Sisters have since expanded to serve in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Toronto, and most recently, on a college campus in Denver. The Sisters take the\u00a0traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, as well as a fourth vow to protect and enhance the sacredness of human life.<\/p>\n

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