The Crisis Pregnancy Agency has opened a text and web-based service (www.positiveoptions.ie) to provide a detailed list of agencies for women with unplanned pregnancies.
The Positive Options service enables women to log-on to the Internet or use their mobile phone to access information. They are provided with a directory of both pro-choice and anti-abortion agencies offering advice and counselling.
The organisations include Dublin Well Woman, Life, the Irish Family Planning Association, Cura, Pact and Cherish.
The help services on offer include information on pregnancy testing; counselling on all options - parenting, adoption and abortion; social welfare; contact for agencies offering post-abortion counselling and agencies providing medical check-ups after an abortion.
The website receives almost 23,000 hits a month, the Crisis Pregnancy Agency said. There is an average of 1,000 text requests for information every month.
Positive Options is being publicised through a high-profile advertising campaign. Leaflets are also available in pharmacies and surgeries. The text service is proving particularly popular with women aged 15 to 20.
The chairwoman of the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, Ms Olive Braiden, said it was unacceptable if women with unplanned pregnancies were forced to look for help in the telephone directory.
"Many women worried about being pregnant find it difficult to get help and support because they are unaware of pregnancy counselling services or how to access them.
"We are not running a crisis helpline. This is a service which simply gives women the details of organisations which can help them. The law allows information on all the options for pregnancy - having a baby, adoption and abortion.
"Information on abortion is not provided on the telephone by any organisation. Women must make an appointment for a face-to-face meeting."
Ms Braiden said the Crisis Pregnancy Agency was anxious that women in rural areas had access to the same information as women in urban areas.
The agency was very concerned that more than one-third of women seeking abortions did not contact any doctor or agency in the Republic for counselling or information before travelling to Britain.