Chuck Colson has a nice column discussing the media bias of Time magazine in their piece on crisis pregnancy centers.
Time has some positive things to say about the nation’s 2,300 pregnancy resource centers. These clinics offer alternatives to abortion, information about fetal development, and material help for women who choose not to abort. But sad to say, Time also repeated a number of myths perpetrated by the abortion industry and its advocates.
For example, Time suggests that pregnancy resource centers, while willing to help mothers during pregnancy, are indifferent to their financial needs after their babies are born.
Not true: Pregnancy care centers often form long-term relationships with women, offering economic and other help years after the baby is born.
I've heard this argument by pro-abortion supporters for years. I suppose if the after birth care isn't trumpeted, it doesn't exist. But usually, the pro-abortion types are more concerned about government support of women having children. In other words, if a person says they are pro-life but don't support high taxes for things like welfare, child care, free meals, etc., then they aren't sufficiently "pro-life" to those people. I've even had people make the ridiculous claim that women have abortions because their employer doesn't have flex time.
But, of course, these arguments are ridiculous, designed to divert attention from the good work crisis pregnancy centers do. This is what Colson points out about the myths involved.
Time also quotes abortion advocates who claim that crisis pregnancy centers lie to women and traumatize them in an effort to coerce them into giving birth. Interestingly, Time did not quote any women who said that this had happened to them. The only people quoted were abortion advocates.
Even more telling are polls of those who use pregnancy care centers: One conducted by the Family Research Council revealed that women by overwhelming numbers had only positive things to say about how they were treated. So where are all the women who think they were treated badly?
Planned Parenthood leader Christopher Hollis tells Time that pregnancy care centers play a “dangerous game with women’s lives.” I have a question for Mr. Hollis: How many women have been killed by pregnancy care centers?
As far as I know, the answer is zero. Unfortunately, abortion clinics cannot make that same claim. Just ask the families of the women who have died at the hands of abortionists.
I would love for someone to come forward and explain how they were mistreated at a crisis pregnancy center. I've known more than a couple of women who went to CPCs and none of them has complained of being duped, tricked, or deceived by anyone there. Even if someone went to a CPC expecting an abortion referral, they would know quickly that such centers don't do them. There's no trickery involved. The problem for Planned Parenthood is that CPCs take money from them by persuading women to keep their babies instead of aborting them.
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