{"id":6402,"date":"2006-08-21T11:26:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T11:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/saving-babies.html"},"modified":"2006-08-21T11:26:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T11:26:49","slug":"saving-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/saving-babies.html","title":{"rendered":"Saving babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

An AP story about new efforts to extend the outreach of Crisis Pregnancy Centers into inner cities<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now the two largest networks \u2014 Care Net and Heartbeat International \u2014 have launched initiatives to change that equation. Their sometimes awkward efforts rely on unlikely alliances, as an anti-abortion movement led mostly by conservative, white Republicans interacts with overwhelmingly Democratic, black communities.<\/p>\n

"This crusade has been very difficult \u2014 having to educate community leaders as to what’s really going on without being offensive, without having a political agenda," said Lillie Epps, the only black member of Care Net’s senior staff and director of its Urban Initiative.<\/p>\n

In Washington, the key players say all has gone smoothly in a year-old partnership between a Care Net affiliate, the Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center, and a teen center in the tough Anacostia neighborhood called The House DC. During the school year, Capitol Hill volunteers come to The House to counsel girls from nearby Anacostia High School who get caught in the tide of teen pregnancies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dawn Eden scores nicely on the reliably idiotic Planned Parenthood rep quote in the article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Short version: PP rep sez (as per usual) "Oh, very nice, but what do they do for babies after <\/em>they’re born?"<\/p>\n

Which is, of course, entirely the point of the CPC’s. <\/p>\n

So, PP..what do you <\/em>do for babies after they’re born???<\/p>\n

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