en’s Attacks on Pregnancy Resource Centers are Uninformed, Cruel
Imagine yourself as a powerful U.S. senator, dedicating your time to harassing community-based groups that provide free material and counseling to pregnant women in crisis.
Imagine this: Making this your top priority in a world where millions of women want and need such help and then giving tacit approval to a group of shadowy groups that inflict destructive vandalism on charities.
Imagine no more.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, D.Mass., who called on a “crackdown” on pro-life pregnancy centers in a Senate speech of Aug. 4, demanded a “crackdown”. This is because these agencies don’t support her radical position on abortion with no restrictions up to the birth.
Warren’s attack is also troubling because some in the executive branch ignore crimes committed against lawful charities on which millions of women depend.
Warren and six other Democratic senators have launched an unfounded, illegitimate inquiry into Heartbeat International, the largest network of prolife pregnancy care centers in the world, with locations throughout every state and in dozens of countries.
These community-based organizations have a long history of helping women with unplanned pregnancies. They have worked tirelessly, at very little taxpayer expense, to offer hope to women with unplanned pregnancies, even in the states and communities they represent.
Warren led the three-page letter. It contained questions about medical record-keeping and data storage laws. There were no plausible grounds to attack.
Heartbeat International’s calm, clear-headed response regarded the letter as nothing more that a “stunt”, for political gain.
Our work is legal, safe, and secure. Heartbeat has been providing support for over [50] years. We have never received any of these questions or concerns, except recently from those with an abortion agenda.
Warren’s letter did not contain any concern or acknowledgment about the more than 65 acts against pregnancy centers since the May 2 leaking by the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which overturned Roe v. Wade.
These attacks have disrupted care for 2 million women, youths, and men who are served annually at life-affirming pregnancies centers and have put at risk the integrity and safety their patient records.
Despite being a nuisance, the senators’ harassment letters are just as unwise as the political maneuvers that they use.
Although Americans may disagree on some aspects of abortion, only a few radicals oppose women receiving free ultrasounds and baby furniture, clothing, and supplies. They also have access to an incalculable network of love, support, and love.
The United States has national studies that have measured the impact on 2,700 of the nearly 3000 total centers using anonymized and aggregated data.
Women and couples can receive free, evidence-based prenatal education and parenting education from up to 86%. Eight in 10 provide free pregnancy-confirmation ultrasounds, which communicate scientific truth about the lives of unborn children and the safety of the mother, and 94% provide direct material assistance to mothers.
1 in 4 also offer testing for sexually transmitted diseases and childbirth classes. 1 in 5 offer consultations on breastfeeding.
These centers offer all this care with the help of more than 10,000 licensed doctors and 54,000 volunteers. (Eight out of ten workers at the centers are volunteers.
These low- and no-cost health care and support are empowering and strengthening women and families. They have also saved the lives of more than 800,000.
These seven Democratic senators have proven that they will do anything to stop abortion alternatives.
These seven elected officials should take a step back from partisan venom and visit a pregnancy center in their state. They will discover goodwill and excellence in care far beyond the cost of Big Abortion by talking to the women and families whose lives were changed by visiting a center.
It would be a wonderful and informative thing to visit a pregnancy resource centre, rather than sending out screeds via mail.
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