A pregnancy centre should be a non-profit industry to serve women, as well as their families and partners, who come seeking help about their pregnancies. A good centre should have the following services.
Compassionate Care
Practical Help
Accurate Information
Free Pregnancy Tests
Entirely Free Services
Complete Confidentiality
Ongoing Pregnancy Support
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The centre should be dedicated to providing a warm and safe environment to everyone, regardless of your age, race, income, nationality, religious affiliation or circumstances.
You should be treated with kindness and compassion and be allowed to leave the centre whenever you wish. They should listen with respect and courtesy, and without judgement, ridicule or rejection.
You have the right to withhold any information you do not want to share with a volunteer. All information shared will be held in strict and absolute confidence, except in the rare circumstances when prohibited by law.
You should receive accurate information about pregnancy, fetal development, life-style issues, and related concerns. In Ireland, it is against the law to refer a client for an abortion and any clinic which does so is in breach of the 1995 Act. It can, of course, offer accurate information about abortion procedures and risks.
You may refuse any information you do not wish to receive. You should receive honest and open answers.
You should be given on-going support, in accordance with your needs.
Counselling Centres in Ireland
NAME
ADDRESS
PHONE
Care in Crisis
Lurgan, Northern Ireland
01762-329900
LIFE Dublin
29/30 Dame Street, Dublin 2
01 6798989
LIFE Cork
123 Patrick Street, Cork
021 4270445
1850 281 281
LIFE Galway
Westside Resource Centre, Seamus Quirke Road, Galway