{"id":1520136,"date":"2022-06-17T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520136"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:09:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:09:18","slug":"its-not-pro-choice-to-attack-pregnancy-centers-that-offer-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-pro-choice-to-attack-pregnancy-centers-that-offer-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Pro-Choice To Attack Pregnancy Centers That Offer Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-not-pro-choice-to-attack-pregnancy-centers-that-offer-choices%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520136&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-16-at-12.53.39-PM-1024x594-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In anticipation of the Supreme Court\u2019s expected overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, pro-abortion arsonists, vandals, and graffiti enthusiasts are attacking pregnancy care centers across the country. The corporate press is mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/14\/corporate-media-law-enforcement-uninterested-in-political-violence-when-it-involves-pregnancy-centers\/\">uninterested<\/a>, but the irony is not lost on those of us involved in helping young women in unplanned pregnancies and giving them a real choice.<\/p>\n<p>Haven\u2019t we all heard the rhetoric ad nauseum that the decision to keep and raise a child or place for adoption versus abortion is the mother\u2019s <em>choice<\/em>? Shouldn\u2019t that choice involve knowledge of what the different choices actually entail, how they can be carried out, what is available to assist them in each of those three choices, and what the ramifications will be \u2013 now and later \u2013 physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually?<\/p>\n<p>If not, why call it \u201cchoice?\u201d There have been at least two dozen instances of fires, vandalism, Molotov cocktails thrown, harassment of people praying in front of abortion facilities, etc. Yet the tone from much of the media is, \u201cWell what do pro-lifers and these pregnancy centers expect when it appears the Supreme Court is about to end the \u2018choice\u2019 to abort?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the abortion movement\u2019s mantra of being \u201cpro-choice\u201d really means genuine choice, how can they reconcile the hypocrisy of attacking the very places offering choices in unplanned pregnancies? They know very well that Planned Parenthood and other abortionists overwhelmingly promote abortion \u2013 the only \u201cchoice\u201d they profit from \u2013 leaving all the documented, researched negatives out of the discussion while exaggerating the challenges of keeping and raising a child.<\/p>\n<p>If they were really for choice, wouldn\u2019t they want pregnant women facing that decision to see their child\u2019s ultrasound? This is one deceptive technique that continues to disgust me and that many people, including pro-choicers, are shocked by.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Planned Parenthood, whose motto is \u201cChoice \u2026 No Matter What!\u201d routinely turns the ultrasound screen away from the pregnant mom, even while charging her or her insurance for the procedure. Numerous women tell me this happened to them. Moms have told me they asked for the screen to be turned toward them but were told, \u201cOh sorry, that\u2019s not our procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They know that women who see their ultrasound, even if they were determined to abort, change their minds <a href=\"https:\/\/nifla.org\/medical-clinic-conversion\/\">80 percent<\/a> of the time right there as they see their unborn baby moving on the screen. If abortionists let women see a beating heart, it might start cutting into business. Turning an ultrasound screen away from a mother is not a \u201cchoice,\u201d it\u2019s deception.<\/p>\n<p>The deception continues in never, ever suggesting that a pregnant woman check out a nearby pregnancy care center, usually intentionally located blocks away. They don\u2019t tell her that she can talk and pray with someone, and often with someone who has experienced an abortion in their past. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the pregnancy centers that want pregnant moms to see their ultrasound, hear about resources that can be provided for their baby, often up to age 2 or 3, and learn about schools and job opportunities with free child care as well as scholarships for single moms, and about the thousands of couples pleading and waiting to adopt a child. <\/p>\n<p>Pregnancy care centers routinely get letters and emails from couples asking for their appeal to be shared with any young woman considering abortion, asking her to please consider them to raise her child. They enclose photos of cousins, grandparents, the family dog, vacation trips, offer all expenses paid, and for the birth mother\u2019s choice in an \u201copen adoption\u201d (which includes contact and visits).<\/p>\n<p>Abortion centers never tell pregnant women that the vast majority of post-abortive women regret their decision, with many suffering severe grief, regret, and alcohol and drug problems. Some studies show the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hli.org\/resources\/risks-of-abortion\/\">risk<\/a> of future miscarriage or infertility increases, as well as a potential risk for breast cancer. They have a six times greater risk of suicide. <\/p>\n<p>There are about 3,000 pregnancy care centers around the United States offering the full truth and real choices, all without charge. Attacking these centers is bizarre, irrational, mean, and hypocritical. These violent activists are denying the very choice they claim to be all for. It\u2019s the pregnancy centers, not abortion centers, that offer real choices.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Patty Knap is a certified pregnancy care counselor on Long Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the Supreme Court\u2019s expected overturning of Roe v. Wade, pro-abortion arsonists, vandals, and graffiti enthusiasts are attacking pregnancy care centers across the country. 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