A Freedom of Information Act request in Maryland has provided
undeniable proof that some pro-abortion organizations are determined to close
pro-life pregnancy centers across the country. Emails procured by Dustin Siggins of LifeSiteNews.com … which have since been
authenticated by a Montgomery County official … have exposed the Maryland
chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice America’s collaboration with state officials to try
and close a local pro-life pregnancy center.
The business under attack, Centro
Tepeyac Silver Spring Women’s Center, had been required by Montgomery County to
post signs stating that it did not have doctors on staff … in an effort to turn
women away. The ordinance was soon
dropped, however, after a judge sensed a certain pro-choice bias against the
center.
The emails obtained by Siggins show
how NARAL had a hand in the case, and just what the NARAL chapter president,
Jodi Finkelstein thought of these “obviously fake abortion clinics.” The emails reveal that, unbeknownst to the
public, Montgomery County dropped the case after conferring with NARAL. The county stopped defending the law the month
after NARAL recommended that very action in a March 14, 2014 letter, sent a
week after the judge permanently blocked the law. “It is our hope that the Montgomery County Council
will once again partner with us to ensure Montgomery County citizens are aware
of the misleading tactics used by crisis pregnancy centers,” wrote Finkelstein.
Although the court battle didn’t go
their way, NARAL is still determined to make life hard for Centro Tepeyac. A closer look at those emails reveals their
strategies for doing so, such as restricting these pro-life centers’
advertising rights, and instructing county officials not to refer women to
crisis pregnancy centers for ultrasounds … a procedure which often convinces
mothers to reject abortion.
Pro-life activists have done their
fair share to shut down abortion clinics, with over a dozen closed in Texas last
year alone … thanks to the pro-life law HB 2.
[read my blog dated March 14, 2014 - “Pro-Choice Advocates – More Interested
in Access to Abortion Clinics than Protecting Women”]
Yet, there’s a major difference. Fewer abortion clinics means more mothers
choosing life for their children; whereas, fewer pregnancy centers means fewer
opportunities to find the care and encouragement they need to carry their child
to term. The difference is life and
death.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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