Ho Lung to open home for women pondering abortion
Published: Wednesday | August 19, 2009
Father Richard Ho Lung (left) had Shirley Richards (right), attorney-at-law, and Patsy Edwards-Henry of the Nurses' Association of Jamaica are stitches at a doctors and nurses' breakfast meeting at the Corpus Christi Monastery on North Street in Kingston yesterday. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer
Catholic charity, Missionaries of the Poor, is to open a home to provide care for pregnant women who are considering abortion.
Ground will be broken for the project next month.
The home, which is to be located at National Heroes Circle in Kingston, will cater to 200 women and 200 children.
"It will also provide medical assistance not only for women who are aborting, but also anybody who is having a medical problem," Missionaries of the Poor founder, Father Richard Ho Lung, told The Gleaner yesterday.
Through hospitals
The charity expects to get most of its occupants through hospitals and other agents of the state.
"As soon as a case is reported, we are going to go in those departments like in Spanish Town Hospital and say any girl who comes would you mind sending them over to us and I think they will be happy because there are so overburdened, many of these hospitals," Ho Lung says.
The home will also be accommodating to persons seeking to adopt a child.
"There are so many people who want to adopt a child and we will help that way," he says.
