[CondoleezzaProtege]

kudos to NY Times for publishing...

[Chaguito]

I volunteer in a crisis pregnancy center as a dad coach, an this is an accurate representation (at least up to the pay wall). We take care of the women and men from moment of positive pregnancy test to the baby’s second birthday. We offer “ mommy money” and “daddy dollars” for classes taken, homework finished, and outside reading done. These credits can buy very high quality clothes and equipment.

I cannot abide the false claim that pro-life means pro-birth, insinuating that the women are forgotten after the baby is born. That.is.a.lie.

[daniel1212]

This writer will likely be marginalized for daring to describe an evangelical ministry anything but the way she states NARAL describes them:

NARAL Pro-Choice America calls pregnancy center activists “anti-choice extremists” who “lie to and mislead women to prevent them from considering abortion.” Planned Parenthood clinics, like one in Memphis, report that pregnancy center volunteers try to lure women away from their doors with gift bags or protest vigils. “All of that is directed at shaming patients who come for abortions, and stigmatizing abortion, which is a part of health care,” said Aimee Lewis, a vice president for Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. “They are fake clinics.”

“The job is to not just say, ‘Hey, this is a real life inside of you, you need to save it.’ That’s not going to accomplish anything,” Ms. Ramsey, 31, said. “It is to get her to see that whatever she thinks is too big for her to handle, she can actually handle it.”

“I don’t ever look at a baby and think, ‘This is going to make this girl’s life way worse,’” she said. “When I see people that are living in poverty, I don’t look at it like, those people shouldn’t have a kid because they aren’t going to take care of it. I look at it as, ‘Those people aren’t in a good situation; how can we help them be in a better situation, with or without a kid?’”

She offers extra points for Baby Bucks if they go to church. “I can’t lie,” she said. “Ultimately, I just don’t think that there can be an abundant life without Jesus. If they say that’s manipulative and a secret tactic, then I will not apologize for it.” - c

[mombonn]

I volunteer at a similar pregnancy care center as an advisor, and an delighted to read a positive review!