Pregnancy Website Reviews & Pregnancy Marketing

Los Angeles Pregnancy Services (LAPS) is a non-profit agency that serves the community of Pico-Union District near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, a predominantly Latino and African-American neighborhood. Surrounding areas include South Los Angeles, Central Los Angeles, South Gate, East Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Huntington Park. The center provides bilingual counseling to women who need pregnancy support. In the LAPS neighborhood, families often believe that abortion is the only alternative to their problems of poverty, unemployment and other difficulties.
LAPS stands as a friendly and compassionate voice that opens their mind and heart to consider life-affirming options for their pregnancy. In the nine years that LAPS has been serving this community, we have learned that most women do not want abortion, but rather they are longing for a supportive and caring voice in their life. Their problems and challenges are real and often very painful. The counselors at LAPS commit themselves to take the time to listen and help our clients sort out their problems in a constructive way that gives them long term peace and joy.
The women who come to Los Angeles Pregnancy Services find out that aborto (abortion in Spanish) is not an answer to an embarazo no deseado (unwanted pregnancy in Spanish). The LAPS center often sees women come in to their center with a face full of grief and sorrow, wondering what tomorrow will be like and how they will make ends meet. It is striking to observe the glow that these same women radiate when they make a choice for life and embrace their unborn child with love and hope. The look in their face is even more radiant when they are holding their precious child in their arms.
Even after the birth of the child, LAPS counselors commit themselves to be there for their clients to help guide them in their unique needs and questions they have as parents. The primary services LAPS offers are free pregnancy tests, counseling, and referrals to a network of community resources that will help and guide pregnant women through the many challenges they may face.
LAPS also provides women with free maternity clothes, baby items, baby food, formula and furniture. They also strive to ensure that the women see a doctor right away to obtain an ultrasound and to start receiving prenatal care. Through the years many women have expressed tremendous relief that they came to LAPS and learned more about what abortion truly was and the many risks that are involved with this decision. LAPS strives to help women regardless of their background or beliefs.
In a neighborhood with no less than nine abortion clinic businesses, LAPS is a much needed resource to give the woman a chance to enjoy and cherish her child – all free of charge for as long as they need they help. LAPS believes that no woman should have to feel that abortion is her only solution. Every pregnant woman has a right to have the support she needs and deserves to choose life for her child. LAPS exists thanks to the help of generous private donors and the many churches that value the work that we do.
LAPS hopes to expand into a medical clinic equipped with ultrasound in the near future to be able to reach out to more women facing a crisis pregnancy in our community. LAPS offers pruebade embarazo gratis (free pregnancy tests). They are located at 2524 W. 7th Street, in Los Angeles, California, 90057. They are located close to Alvarado Street, Wilshire Blvd., and Hoover Street in downtown Los Angeles. LAPS can be contacted at (213) 382-5643 to schedule an appointment, or by email at lapscpc@sbcglobal.net. All of LAPS services are free. They never charge for any of their services. Some of the other services that LAPS provides includes include free baby items, like diapers and baby clothes.

Being too young to have lived through the fabled Baby Boom of my parents’ era, I, of course, have no idea how it seemed to those young, newly married couples just starting their families. These days, more than ever, I wonder if they realized that they were helping to spur on the “Baby Boom,” making history. I wonder if they had any idea that, as my peers and I are stuck with the nickname of “Generation X” (whatever that’s supposed to mean), they will, until the end of time as we know it, be known as the “Baby Boomers.”

I’ve never done any research into the deeper reasons (or the shallower ones, for that matter) for the apparently-sudden increase in population, nor do I intend to. None of that interests me in the slightest. My only curiosity lies in the presence or absence of awareness among the many parents of the day. In reality, even that curiosity—the little bit I have right now—will probably be short lived. In the meantime, though, I wonder…. Did those young and older couples have any idea that doing the normal, newly-married, ready-to-be-parents thing was making history? Maybe it’s a goofy question, but this is the way my mind works.

It seems as though there are a whole lot of babies being born, these days. It’s not just people my age, either. Granted, many of my peers are starting and expanding their families, but there are even more children being born to parents younger than I, or so it seems to me, and with the advances in birth control, there are plenty of people older than I who are just getting started, too. In considering the many babies being announced all around me, I’m stuck considering this question: Are we in the middle of another baby boom? It could be merely that I just never paid so much attention to the quantity of babies.

After all, up until three years ago, I was an unattached, single gal trying to decide if I really wanted to move away from SUVs and if I could afford a Cooper Mini. The only babies that really caught my attention were my nephews, and there are only two of them. Now, though, having relatively enjoyed nine months of pregnancy and survived twenty-two hours of back labor and eventual delivery, I’m a whole lot more aware of babies (and their mothers, especially), and I’m noticing that there are a lot of them to notice.

It doesn’t really matter, I suppose, but I’m just curious—do people making history realize that they’re making history? Sure, the presidents and generals probably do (or at least suspect so), but what about the rest of us commoners? The general public is just as much a part of history, even if our daily actions are rarely recorded in the history books. So, who knows? Maybe all of us who are in the midst of building families are also making history (like Adam and Eve, Noah and his wife, Abraham and Sarah, the Baby Boomers…)!