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St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, recently sent us a story about Grace Lape. The former Holy Spirit parishioner in Tempe expects to graduate from the all-girls college in the spring, but it was her pro-life work that recently made headlines at the school.

Grace Lape talks about the child in the womb while interning for a pregnancy center in New York this summer. (photo from her blog)

Co-president of the Right to Life Club, Lape spent the summer on the front lines of the pro-life movement. Lape counseled abortion-vulnerable women as an intern with Expectant Mother Care Frontline Pregnancy Centers in New York City. The article continued:

“I was worried because I knew this experience would demand things of me which I knew would not be easy. I really did not know if I was ready for it.”

Turns out she was ready. The office experienced 13 turnarounds — women who changed their mind about abortion — in one week. Lape had a hand in at least one of them. Read about it on her blog.

The humanistic studies major now finds herself much more humble after the experience. Lape called the job “fulfilling.”

Similar outreach and support for women facing unplanned pregnancies happens throughout the Valley.

Andrew wrote a story about the MOMobile in our Oct. 1 issue. Women receive free prenatal care. The organization’s efforts has led to higher birth-weight babies in the last 10 years.

The benefit run/walk is Nov. 8.

1st Way of Maricopa County, which recently unveiled its first mobile ultrasound machine, is holding its annual fundraising banquet Nov. 7. The pregnancy resource center provides counseling, ultrasounds, referrals and pregnancy and parenting materials.

Maggie’s Place is holding its second benefit race, stroller walk and kids’ dash Nov. 7. Proceeds support pregnant women and their babies up to six months old who live in community with each other.