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This will make it easier for other podcast listeners to find issues etc. One of the things I did not expect, although in retrospect it seems to make some sense was the hostility that was unleashed against crisis pregnancy

centers after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

I imagine the frustration had to go someplace and it went toward crisis pregnancy centers in some cases

leading to vandalism and violence. Welcome back to issues etc. I'm Todd

Wilkin joining us to talk about a new report on the impact of pro-life pregnancy

centers, Dr. Michael New visiting assistant professor of social research and political science

at the Catholic University of America, Senior Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Loeser Institute, Page Comstock Cunningham Fellow with Americans United for Life, a columnist for National Review Online, and co-author of an op-ed for The Hill, titled Post Dobbs pregnancy centers help moms and babies before and

after birth. Dr. New welcome back.

Thanks to have me. It's a good day. I just got done marching for life. How do you

explain the open hostility displayed by

some pro-abortion lawmakers and activists towards crisis pregnancy centers

after the overturning of row? Well, it's just economics. Planned Parenthood needs

women to obtain abortions to sustain themselves financially and when women

choose life that's money and revenue Plannedarenthood is not making so some of it is economic and some it's ideological some people who support legal abortion do think abortion is the correct choice for a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy.

So they really don't want women to know about the options and alternatives provided by

ProLife Pregnancy Help Centers.

What do pregnancy centers do?

They provide an impressive range of services for youth, women, and families.

Pregnant women approach them, they can provide material goods, everything from diapers to

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