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Women’s Emergency Network – fulfilling the promise of reproductive freedom.

Carlotta, a 23-year-old mother of a 6-year-old disabled child, is trapped in a relationship with a man who is mean, controlling and occasionally violent. He has been supporting her since she lost her job, but he refuses to give her money for her abortion. Carlotta borrowed against her daughter’s disability check to help pay for her care and sever ties to this abusive man.  She is waiting for her tax refund so she can take her daughter and move out.

Janelle, 19, was kicked out of her mom’s house and has found temporary shelter with a friend.  Out of school since the 10^th grade, she worked as a cashier until she lost her job. Janelle says this is not the time to have a baby. She needs to get her GED, find a job and take care of her 3-year-old.

Alexandra was raped soon after she got her period for the first time. She is 11 years old.

Josephena, who is 21, homeless, and has a grade-school education, left her husband and family in El Salvador and came to the United States to work. Only after she arrived did she learn that she was pregnant.  At first she planned to complete the pregnancy, but then she learned that the fetus was developing with severe abnormalities.

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There are so many women, so many desperate situations.

That's why there is Women's Emergency Network.

To provide counseling and financial assistance so that women and girls faced with an untenable pregnancy can make the reproductive choice that's right for them.