CV NEWS FEED // A correspondent for The Guardian recently slammed the legitimacy of pro-life pregnancy centers across the United States in a discussion aired by PBS on Saturday.
“Reproductive health and justice” reporter Carter Sherman joined PBS anchor John Yang and journalist Ali Rogan in a discussion on the rise in financial support for pregnancy centers in the U.S. following the Dobbs decision.
“The point of a crisis pregnancy center, which is often known as an anti-abortion center, or even just a pregnancy center,” said Sherman, “is to convince people to continue their pregnancies.”
Responding to the question posed by PBS regarding how pregnancy centers function, Sherman highlighted that the centers often provide medical resources such as pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, in addition to “giv[ing] out goods like car seats or strollers.”
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When asked by Rogan “what sort of people” such centers “target,” Sherman replied:
These centers offer usually free services. And so that can be really appealing to people who are low income. And we do know that at least prior to the overturning of Roe, most people who get abortions are low income, because it is so difficult for people to afford pregnancies in this country.
Sherman called into question the legitimacy of many centers, which she claimed lack the authority of medical licensing to advise women to continue their pregnancies. For this reason, she added, the centers are also “not burdened by the kind of limitations that medical providers face.”
“People who go to these centers,” Sherman said, “walk in not necessarily knowing that they are not in an abortion clinic,” further insinuating that pregnancy centers present themselves deceptively to resemble abortion clinics:
“And in reality, again, these are centers that are trying to convince you to continue a pregnancy.”
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Sherman also claimed that judges have refrained from imposing regulations on pregnancy centers because they are “wary of treason on these centers’ first amendment rights,” since the centers are often faith-based and staffed by volunteers.
As CatholicVote previously reported, the House of Representatives recently moved to block the Biden administration from restricting funds for pregnancy resource centers back in January.
At the time, Chairman Christopher Smith’s office called out the Biden administration for its “hypocritical” move to place restrictions on the the options available to mothers through the centers, which he described as “an important alternative” that “support[s] the life of both the mother and the child.”
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