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Stuff Mom Never Told You

What are Crisis Pregnancy Centers?

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Maya Kroth stops by to take us inside a crisis pregnancy center.

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1:18.0

Hey, this is Annie. Hey, this is Samantha and welcome to Stuff Home Never Told You, a production of iHeart Radio's House of Works.

1:49.0

In today's episode, we're going to be discussing something that I think with all of the news coming out might be on some people's minds or it's important to discuss and to discuss it and it being Christ's pregnancy centers.

2:07.0

We are joined by Maya. Would you like to introduce yourself and tell the listeners a little bit about yourself?

2:14.0

Hi, yeah, thank you so much for having me on. My name is Maya Kraf. I've been a journalist for about 15 years, but I'm sort of new to Atlanta. I'm from California, originally, and I landed in Atlanta about a year and a half ago with kind of which I think was kind of an interesting moment in the South, you know, changing demographics of the South and it's an especially interesting place to be at this moment.

2:41.0

So when my editor approached me to write this story about Christ's pregnancy centers with everything that was going on with the changing reproductive rights landscape, I jumped on the opportunity.

2:52.0

Yes, and we are so glad to have you here because your piece in medium was absolutely done.

2:59.0

And it's called inside the shadow clinics for listeners who want to look it up. And as you're writing it, it was around the time that Brett Kavanaugh was being confirmed for the Supreme Court.

3:10.0

And as we record this now, several states are passing very restrictive abortion laws ultimately with the goal of overturning Roe V Wade.

3:19.0

So we thought it would be good time to talk about it, but let's start with the basics. What are Christ's pregnancy centers?

3:26.0

Yeah, Christ's pregnancy centers, they're also sometimes called pregnancy resource centers. These are centers that are run by faith based groups that basically exist to talk women out of having an abortion.

3:40.0

From the outside, they might look like a traditional women's health clinic. Some of them even have innocuous names like the women's clinic.

3:49.0

But when you get in there, you see a lot of Christian literature in the lobby. So these centers often masquerade as traditional women's health care clinics.

4:01.0

But when you dig a little deeper, you realize that's not what they are. A lot of times they open up right across the street from a planned parenthood, although in states like Georgia where there are so few abortion clinics, they'll just open up anywhere that you might find women who might be considering an abortion college campuses.

4:18.0

That kind of thing.

4:20.0

And I know that a while back John Oliver did a piece of them and they kind of focused a little bit on the bands like they'll move around in bands and park outside.

4:31.0

Oh, yeah, there's one that I think parks out front of a church in hateville.

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