{"id":253628,"date":"2021-09-21T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T17:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253628"},"modified":"2021-09-23T15:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:25:36","slug":"care-net-texas-30-percent-increase-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/care-net-texas-30-percent-increase-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Care Net in Texas sees 30% increase in calls since passage of Heartbeat Act"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The way major media outlets have spun it, the enactment of the Texas Heartbeat Act on September 1 has sent women into a panic. They filled abortion facility waiting rooms on August 31 as the clock inched closer to midnight, allowing so-called “heroic” abortionists to commit dangerous, rushed, 15-minute abortions<\/a>. Now, women are stocking up on pregnancy tests, hoping they can catch an unplanned pregnancy before their baby’s heartbeat is detectable and get a quick abortion.<\/p>\n

But to Care Net pregnancy centers<\/a>, stoking this kind of panic is an abortion industry marketing tactic, and no matter what the law is, women facing unplanned pregnancies will need the support of the pro-life community.<\/p>\n

Abortion as a consumer product<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We’re definitely seeing more folks,” Roland Warren, president of Care Net, told Live Action News. “The call volumes are up about 30% or so. That’s pretty consistent with what we’ve been hearing [from the Texas pregnancy centers]. And to some degree, it’s certainly \u2014 in terms of how the issue is being framed from folks on the other side \u2014 it’s designed to create a level of panic.”<\/p>\n

Care Net has 1,200 affiliated centers across the United States and Canada, and 82 are located in Texas. The organization exists to help women choose life with confidence by offering them real support. In the fiscal year 2020, Care Net saved<\/a> more than 71,000 lives from abortion and saved communities $62 million. Jana Pinson, from the Care Net affiliate Pregnancy Center of the Coastal Bend in the Corpus Christi area, told<\/a> The New York Times that since the Texas law went into effect, their waiting rooms have been “filled to overflowing.” Women on the fence about abortion are scared, and that’s exactly what the abortion industry wants them to be.<\/p>\n

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