What is a Crisis Pregnancy Center? What is a Pregnancy Resource Center?
What is a Crisis Pregnancy Center? What is a Pregnancy Resource Center?Answer: Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) — also known as pregnancy resource centers — provide counseling to pregnant teenagers and women. Often advertising themselves as women’s health clinics, many do not actually have medical staff or a doctor on the premises. Virtually all of them are pro-life centers and do not offer abortion services or make referrals to abortion providers. Many CPCs are affiliated with national pro-life umbrella organizations such as Heartbeat International and CareNet; the latter describes itself as “a Christian ministry assisting and promoting the evangelistic, pro-life work of pregnancy centers in North America.” The intent of these centers is to discourage teens and women from choosing abortion. While some state up front that they provide abortion alternatives — not abortion services — and will not make abortion referrals, many do not. Instead, they try to appear politically neutral to
