Do you have a friend who is worried about an unplanned pregnancy and you are trying to help her? Are you feeling inadequate and worried about how you can help her in this time of personal crisis? You have already taken the first important steps of helping your friend by coming to this site for information, and you have found people who will offer all the support and help that your friend needs to make informed decisions. We are also there for you, as a friend, to talk to you and help you guide your friend through what is normally a panic-stricken time in a young woman's life.

The first thing you need to understand is that because your friend is probably scared thinking she may be pregnant, and she may not be thinking clearly or feeling she has any options other than an abortion. Help your friend to slow down, and carefully consider what steps she should take next. The first step you will, hopefully, encourage her to take is to contact our center for an appointment for a free, confidential pregnancy test to confirm that she is indeed pregnant. She doesn't have to make any other decisions until she is sure she is pregnant.

Coming to the center, initially, can be very frightening and it would help her if you could offer to come with herÑmaybe even make the actual call to set up the appointment if she is too anxious to do so herself. It would also be good if you could encourage her to bring along her boyfriend so that he can fully understand everything and help her make the best decisions if she is pregnant.