When Stanlecia bought the pregnancy test, she fully expected it to be negative. She waited until she was alone to perform the test. When she saw the positive result, she hid the test so that her boyfriend would not find it. You see — she knew her boyfriend would want her to have the baby, but she was not ready to be a parent. She decided that abortion was the solution to her situation.

A friend told her about ACCESS Pregnancy and Referral Centers and suggested that she call for an appointment. She listened to her client advocate on that first appointment telling her about her options, but Stanlecia had made her decision for an abortion. She had already made several phone calls to local abortion clinics for information.

However, she still came in for her ultrasound appointment two weeks later. Stanlecia says that when she saw her baby's beating heart, she wanted to cry. She knew then that this little baby was already a part of her. At her first doctor's appointment when she heard the sound of her baby's heartbeat, she also heard an internal voice cry out, "I'll be killing my baby if I go through with this abortion." She chose to continue with the pregnancy with the support of her boyfriend, her family, and the staff at ACCESS.

Stanlecia and her boyfriend welcomed their baby boy, King, on April 3, 2008 at 1:33 p.m. He weighed 8 ½ pounds and measured 21 ½ inches long at birth.

Stanlecia had dropped out of college but is now back in school and due to graduate in May of 2010. She says, "King is the reason I am back in school."

Stanlecia visited ACCESS Pregnancy & Referral Centers.

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All Pregnancy Medical Clinics in the Option Ultrasound Program provide limited obstetrical ultrasound as medically indicated. Clinics are licensed to operate under the supervision of a physician, using only trained sonographers. Focus on the Family does not endorse the use of ultrasound outside of a medical clinic setting and does not endorse the use of ultrasound for non-medical reasons. Patient referrals are made to physicians for follow-up diagnosis and care as needed.