ABC News special on crisis pregnancy centers v. the abortion industry

ABC national nightly news had a three and a half minute feature last night (Thursday) on their "Medicine and the Culture Wars" series. The title is "Clinics Try to Steer Women from Abortions" and besides the usual suspects from Planned Parenthood, it features a crisis pregnancy center in New York and founder Chris Slattery.

On balance it was good publicity, with a relatively sympathetic view of Slattery and his staff. It ends with an interview of a mother who has been aided, and images of her children. Great job Chris and staff!!

Go here to see it:  ABC News

Here's a partial transcript  from the end of the feature:

One woman who spoke with ABC News said she didn't feel misled at all when she entered a pregnancy crisis center.

"When I first went in there, I was thinking that I was too young, that I didn't want a baby," Rachel Acosta said.

She went to one of Slattery's crisis pregnancy centers at age 15. Now she's 21 and is the single mother of three children. She said when she looks at her daughter and thinks about the fact that she nearly aborted her, it makes her "sad.

"It makes me want to cry," Acosta said. "I mean, I did cry when I gave birth to her. I was, like, look at what I almost gave up."

Whatever their critics say about the tactics of crisis pregnancy centers, the people who run them say this is what justifies their work, the children they call "gifts from god."

Comments

[Joe Giardina]

To prevent those seeking abortions being "deceived", the state should mandate that every abortion "clinic" hang a large pictorial sign with a bloody dead baby outside their door in full view of the street.This truth in advertising should stop any deception of what goes on inside.
Just a suggestion.

[thea mcginnis]

i find any accusations against these crisis pregnancy centers ridiculous. we don't have to trick people into going there. i believe they are upfront about how they can help women in trying circumstances.

[Judith Anderson]

Abortion as a solution is such a lie. Women have been selling women a bill of goods for over thirty years and still counting, determined not to promote in "full range clinics" real life alternatives. May God bless these pregnancy care centers and the sidewalk counselors who reach out to women before, and most especially after the painful abortions they endure and carry with them for a lifetime.