ran an article on February 15 highlighting the impact of pregnancy centers across America.
"... thousands of crisis pregnancy centers in the U.S. are working to end abortion... the new face of an old movement: kind, calm, nonjudgmental, a special-forces soldier in the abortion wars who is fighting her battles one conscience at a time. Her center helps women navigate the social-service bureaucracy, sign up for Medicaid and begin prenatal care. She helps pregnant girls find emergency housing if their parents threaten to throw them out. Free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds are just the latest service."
"[They] talk of changing hearts. They are part of a whole other strategy that is more personal and more pastoral..."
"...the pregnancy-center movement takes the fight over abortion deep inside some of the most intimate conversations a woman ever has."
"Pregnancy centers offer everything from emergency food and formula to strollers and baby clothes to help with the month's rent."
"The latest trend is to convert pregnancy centers into health clinics that offer free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and testing for sexually transmitted diseases."
The article fairly wrestles with the complex issues of abortion and the important role of pregnancy centers. The closing sentence sums it up, "On issues of such weight, making the questions harder for people is the first step toward finding some answers." The need to raise funds for these CPC's is continually important.
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