Pregnancy agency’s role spelt out

FURTHER to recent correspondence in your pages, I wish to outline and clarify the purpose and function of the Crisis Pregnancy Agency.

The purpose of the agency is to bring strategic focus to the issue of crisis pregnancy and so to add further value to the work of existing service providers.

The function of the agency, as set down in our statutory instrument, is to prepare and implement a strategy to effect a reduction in the number of crisis pregnancies and to ensure the provision of supports and services for women faced with crisis pregnancy, both during and after the pregnancy itself.