Tag: Option Line

350,000 Reached Out to Option Line in 2017 for Life-Saving Pregnancy Help

By Jennifer Minor Entering 2018 just a few thousand contacts shy of 3 million since answering its first call in 2003, Heartbeat International’s 24-7, 365 pregnancy helpline Option Line responded to well over 350,000 women facing an unexpected or difficult pregnancy in 2017. Here’s the story of just one call. “Sandra” wanted to know everything …

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A Record 28,000 Women Reached Out to Option Line for help This March. Here’s One of Their Stories

By Jay Hobbs For the second time in the past three months, Option Line—a 24-7 pregnancy helpline operated by Heartbeat International—is celebrating a high-water mark, having reached 28,414 women with life-affirming help in the month of March. Far outpacing the previous single-month record of 24,000, set in 2008, over half the women and men who …

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Nafisa Shamsher Named Director of 24-7 Pro-Life Helpline

By Heartbeat International News The first and only fully-staffed 24-7 pregnancy helpline in the U.S., Option Line, has named long-time consultant Nafisa Shamsher as its new director, with former director Bri Laycock receiving a promotion to head Heartbeat International’s new Ministry Solutions department. The change was effective Feb. 1. Shamsher takes Option Line’s reins on …

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