This week’s Time magazine puts an Asheville “crisis pregnancy center” in the national spotlight.
The Asheville Pregnancy Support Center, open since December, is part of a growing nationwide campaign by anti-abortion activists to convince women to carry out their pregnancies. Time‘s cover story, “The Grassroots Abortion War,” describes the CEO there as “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.”
Such centers are, of course, not without their critics. Pro-choicers are denouncing “the means, the information these centers give, the methods they use and the costs they ignore,” Time reports. See the story here — it’s one of the most in-depth examinations of such centers, and bound to draw more debate.
— Jon Elliston, news editor
