Crisis pregnancy centers trying to provide services to inner city women

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Abortion businesses have long targeted the minority and poor communities of larger cities and Care Net estimates that there are five abortion centers for every pregnancy center in some major inner city areas.

Dr. Lillie A. Epps is a licensed, ordained minister and the Director of Urban Center Development at Care Net. She told the Associated Press over the weekend about the difficulties in reaching out to urban communities.

"This crusade has been very difficult -- having to educate community leaders as to what's really going on without being offensive, without having a political agenda," Epps said.

Care Net began the initiative with a pilot program at the Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center in a rough minority neighborhood called Anacostia in Washington, D.C. The group partnered with the 21 year-old pregnancy center and a teen outreach center called The House.

Though most of the volunteers at the pregnancy center are white, 89 percent of its clients are black and director Janet Durig told AP that race doesn't matter when a pregnant teenager needs help.

"When she breaks down and cries, do you think she cares if I'm white?" Durig asked.