This week’s Time magazine puts an Asheville “crisis pregnancy center” in the national spotlight.
The Asheville Pregnancy Support Center, open since December, is part of a growing nationwide campaign by anti-abortion activists to convince women to carry out their pregnancies. Time‘s cover story, “The Grassroots Abortion War,” describes the CEO there as “the new face of an old movement: kind, calm, nonjudgmental, a special-forces soldier in the abortion wars who is fighting her battles one conscience at a time.” Her center “helps women navigate the social-service bureaucracy, sign up for Medicaid and begin prenatal care. She helps pregnant girls find emergency housing if their parents threaten to throw them out. Free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds are just the latest service.”
Such centers are, of course, not without their critics. Pro-choicers are denouncing “the means, the information these centers give, the methods they use and the costs they ignore,” Time reports. See the story here — it’s one of the most in-depth examinations of such centers, and bound to draw more debate.
— Jon Elliston, news editor
Before you comment
The comments section is here to provide a platform for civil dialogue on the issues we face together as a local community. Xpress is committed to offering this platform for all voices, but when the tone of the discussion gets nasty or strays off topic, we believe many people choose not to participate. Xpress editors are determined to moderate comments to ensure a constructive interchange is maintained. All comments judged not to be in keeping with the spirit of civil discourse will be removed and repeat violators will be banned. See here for our terms of service. Thank you for being part of this effort to promote respectful discussion.