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For Friends
If your friend comes to you and tells you she
might be pregnant, what can you do?
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LISTEN
- you are mostly likely the first person that
she has told.
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HELP
- if she doesn’t yet know she is pregnant, offer
to go along with her to the Pregnancy Resource
Centre to do a test. Or, if she already knows,
be willing to go along with her to a doctor’s
appointment or the PRC for Options support.
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BE CONFIDENTIAL-She
needs to be able to trust you with her secret.
Keep her secret safe. She will need time to
process this news.
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ENCOURAGE
- This event will be life changing, no matter
the outcome. She needs to know that through it
all, she will be okay, and that you will be
there to support her however you can. Encourage
to talk to a trusted adult like a teacher or her
parent. It is important that you treat her the
way you would want to be treated if you were in
the same situation.
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REMEMBER
- remember that it is HER decision to make and
that she will be the one that needs to live with
her decision.
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