While Planned Parenthood was busy celebrating a “National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers” in America, a Canadian housing developer was donating a building worth about $3 million to help women in crisis pregnancies actually give birth to and care for their children.
According to this, Gene Dub had purchased the old Grand Manor Hotel, a 1913 building in Edmonton, about eight years ago. He slowly renovated the four-story building, which holds 18 studio and one-bedroom apartment units.
Now, he’s handed over the building to be used to help the 100 or so homeless women who give birth every year in the city.
"He heard about the need on a radio show, then thought about what he could do,” the Edmonton Journal reports.
Dub said he decided that since his family was already taken care of financially, he didn’t need anything else, deciding instead to donate his excess to women in need.
The building’s new owners, affordable housing provider Capital Region Housing, will be partnering with Pregnancy Pathways, a collection of non-profit pregnancy resource providers. Together, they’ll offer women housing, pre-natal care, child birth care, housing and assistance for up to nine months after the birth, and a strong community of other women to help support them through the entire process.
Which are all things that abortion providers like Planned Parenthood don't offer, by the way.
“Without this program, many of these mothers have their children apprehended at birth and go straight back to struggling on the street, said Nancy Peekeekoot, wellness coordinator for the program,” the Journal reports.