Know Your Adversary

Dear ProLife Colleague, The pro-choice powers are all in favor of Choice—as long as it agrees with their choice. The success of the Crisis Pregnancy Center movements (now called Pregnancy Resource Centers) in saving babies drives them wild. How can we be so callous as to try to spare women the abortion experience!!! Something has to be done about us!! Read on: Abortion Advocates Launch Campaign Against Pregnancy Centers Pro-abortion activists have launched campaigns in a number of states to attack pregnancy centers that provide women with life-affirming alternatives to abortion. Now NARAL indicates the campaign is going national. The efforts in several states have centered on two attempts by NARAL and other abortion advocates to discredit the centers, which provide options counseling with practical maternity help, ultrasounds, and other assistance for pregnant women who may otherwise be considering an abortion. The first has city and county governments, as well as state legislatures, attempting to approve laws mandating that pregnancy centers don’t employ medical staff or give out medically-accurate information on abortion — an attempt to dissuade women from going to the centers. The second involves NARAL activists pretending to be center clients and reporting to NARAL for a public condemnation of the supposedly inaccurate information they received. Now, Melinda Delahoyde, the president of Care Net, a network of more than 1,100 pregnancy centers located in all 50 states, points to a new video NARAL New York posted on YouTube revealing a national strategy to specifically target pregnancy centers in urban areas She says the video reveals more hostile legislation intended to shut down these centers and direct women to abortion businesses. “This video reinforces the fact that legislation against pregnancy centers is part of a nationwide strategy by abortion advocacy groups aimed at shutting down the competition,” Delahoyde said in an email to LifeNews. “It also reveals for the first time that these legislative attacks will be focused on urban areas, the very areas where abortion providers are prevalent, support for abortion alternatives is lacking, and abortion rates are skyrocketing.”