Transcript Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Purdue Students for Life
"If you want equal justice for all,
and true freedom and lasting peace,
then America, defend life."
-Pope John Paul II
Pro-Life News
• Maryland law enforced its Unborn Victims Act for the first time this week, as a
man killed both his girlfriend and her unborn child. He was charged with double
homicide, and sentenced to life without possibility of parole.
•An Oregon pregnancy center, the Pregnancy Alternatives Center in Lebanon,
Oregon, is the apparent victim of arson in a possible attack from an abortion
advocate.
•A hospital in Fort Wayne has indicated that it will give admitting privileges to local
abortion practitioners, this allows women who are victims of botched abortions to
get medical care.
•Planned Parenthood is currently violating FDA regulations with its distribution of
the abortion drug, RU 486. The FDA recommends a three step process for this
type of abortion, but Planned Parenthood gives only one pill, and ups the dosage of
the less expensive drug component, misoprostol. This makes these abortions more
profitable for Planned Parenthood, and more dangerous for women. In addition,
Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa is now offering no appointment, walk-in
abortions at its centers without an appointment with a doctor, and merely
consulting a doctor via webcam using this chemical means of abortion.
Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Also known as Pregnancy Resource Centers
As of September, 2006, there were over 2,200 pro-life pregnancy
centers in the United States.
Care Net is the largest network of CPCs in North America, with 1,100
centers advising over 350,000 women annually. Heartbeat
International is associated with over 1,000 centers, and Birthright
International has over 400 affiliates
Some services CPCs might offer:
•Free pregnancy tests (some also offer STD testing), Contact
info to outside agencies that provide medical care, legal aid or
social services, affiliations with maternity houses, or temporary
homes for pregnant women and young mothers, possible sonogram
capabilities, peer counseling for post abortive women, and Bible
studies.
Matrix Lifeline
Christian non-profit organization which was founded in 1978 to fulfill the
following mission
member of Heartbeat International of Columbus Ohio, and is included in
the Worldwide Directory of Life-Affirming Pregnancy Services.
Services Offered:
•Pregnancy Testing
•Counseling with discussion of options
•Prenatal Financial Assistance
•Maternity Clothing & Baby Clothing
•Diapers & Formula
•Car Seats & Cribs
•Abstinence Resource center
•Educational Presentation
•Referrals for Community Services
LifeCare Services
Services offered:
•24 Hour Weekday Helpline: (765) 743-4488
•Pregnancy Tests
•Crisis Counseling
•Ultrasound, When Indicated
•Long Term Peer Counseling
•Trimester Classes
•Mom's Support Group
•Parenting Group (for mom's only)
•Clothing and Furnishings for Mother and Baby
•Referrals for Medical Care, Legal Assistance and Other Community
Resources
•Adoption Referrals
•Assistance in Determining Educational and Career Goals
•Pregnancy and Related Educational Resources
•Post-Abortion Recovery
Funding for CPCs
Most funding comes from donations or fundraising endeavors
Individuals can supports CPCs by purchasing ‘Choose Life’ License
plates.
•17 states offer these novelty plates, and funds are used to help
CPCs and
adoption support organizations
•For Indiana, you can go directly to the Indiana Bureau of Motor
Vehicles to obtain your Indiana Choose Life plate. The BMV
collects their specialty plate fee, as well as the $25 fee that goes
to the Indiana Association of Pregnancy Centers.
There are at least 8 states that receive federal funding. As of July
2006, 50 CPCs had received federal funding.
Funding for CPCs
•Wal-Mart Foundation donated $157,153 to 261 different CPCs in 2004.
•U.S. Airways has given free flight tickets to several CPCs
•Bank of America
•Chick-fil-A is consistent supporter of CPCs, Focus on the Family, Right to Life
organizations, and other anti-choice causes
•Curves Fitness CEO Gary Heavin has donated substantial profits to CPCs and has
close ties to Operation Save America.
•Interstate Batteries, initiators of the 2005 “Charged for Life” campaign
•Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos Pizza, is a known monetary supporter of CPCs
and other pro-life causes. His foundation, the Ave Maria Foundation, granted
$20,000 to a CareNet Pregnancy Center in 2000.
•Adolph Coors, son of Coors Brewing Company, has, through the Adolph Coors
Foundation, given sizeable monetary grants to large pro-life organizations and many
CPCs, including Families First, Mountain Area Alternatives Crisis Pregnancy Center,
Life Choices Pregnancy Center, and A Woman’s Place.
•Joe Gibbs, Hall of Fame former head coach of the Washington Redskins and
NASCAR owner, was a supporter of the 2005 “Charged for Life” campaign
Ultrasound and CPCs
Colorado based Focus on the Family has a goal of equipping 800
enters with ultrasound machines by 2010.
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern
Baptist Convention, is working on the same goal, what they call the
Psalm 139 Project. They are supporting the goal of empowering
CPCs with sonogram machines because they know that “people
would be confronted with the evident humanity of the baby from
very early gestation onward” and would be less likely to choose
abortion.
Attacks on CPCs from Abortion Advocates
Claim that CPCs are ‘deceptive’ and try to pass as ‘medical facilities’
Don’t like the fact that many are religiously based and therefore claim that
they are designed to ‘guilt’ them out of having an abortion or fulfill a
political agenda.
Claim that educational materials are ‘anti-choice propaganda’
Some go as far as to claim that they were ‘harassed, intimidated, lied to, or
that their private information was used against them.’
Before Next Meeting:
Please send me your names and addresses for
fundraising no later than Thursday night!
Sept. 27th:
see Tess if you would like to sign up for a 40
Days for Life shift in South Bend
If you would be interested in going to
Indianapolis to pray at their Planned Parenthood,
please sign up today as well,