Fundy Pregnancy Centers Creating "Artificial Orphans": coercing young moms to give up their babies

http://jezebel.com/5351936/crisis-pregnancy-centers-creating-artificial-orphans?skyline=true&s=x

From the article:

You know those "crisis pregnancy centers" that set up shop near abortion clinics, pretending to offer "options"? Turns out they won't just terrify you into having the baby; they'll terrify you into handing it over to them...

While waiting to give birth, Jordan was taken into the home of a "shepherding family" the agency hooked her up with, where — despite the fact she hadn't yet decided on adoption — she was referred to exclusively as a "birth mother." Says Jordan, "I felt like a walking uterus for the agency." After she settled on an adoptive couple and gave birth,

Jordan cried all day and didn't think she could relinquish the baby. She called her shepherding parents and asked if she could bring the baby home. They refused, chastising Jordan sharply. The counselor told the couple Jordan was having second thoughts and brought them, sobbing, into her recovery room. The counselor warned Jordan that if she persisted, she'd end up homeless and lose the baby anyway.

Jordan signed the adoption papers and went back to live with the shepherding family, who were "celebrating and asked why Jordan wouldn't stop crying." 5 days later she left, and when she later called the agency looking for the counseling they promised, her shepherding mother told her "You're the one who spread your legs and got pregnant out of wedlock. You have no right to grieve for this baby."...

Instead, the ones who turn to CPCs for support are abandoned the moment the umbilical cord is cut and the baby can be spirited away to some stranger's quiver. Never mind if they want the baby. Never mind if they wanted an abortion months earlier. As soon as they stumbled into a CPC, what they wanted ceased to be a factor, because CPCs are not in the business of helping pregnant women but, as Joyce says critics put it: "separat willing biological parents from their offspring, artificially producing 'orphans' for Christian parents to adopt." If you think that sounds a lot like the "Baby Scoop" era of the mid-twentieth century, when at least 1.5 million pregnant girls and women were hidden away, often in maternity homes, until they gave birth to babies they didn't dare raise in a society that wouldn't tolerate single mothers, well, you're onto something. Says Joyce of that time: "The coercion was frequently brutal, entailing severe isolation, shaming, withholding information about labor, disallowing mothers to see their babies and coercing relinquishment signatures while women were drugged or misled about their rights." In other words, pretty much what CPCs are doing now. Oh, and in case you haven't vomited yet, under the Bush administration, CPCs received over $60 million in federal funding. Have a pleasant day.

How dare they treat a new mom like this?

It makes me sick.


K&R

The Born Again's are of the dirtiest POS's around.
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the mother would give birth. Then the nurse would call the social worker over to the mother. The mother would hand the baby over to the social worker. That way, there was no coercion. The mother gave up her child.

My MIL witnessed these scenes. Many a mother was crying her eyes out and bawling as she gave her baby away. No matter what the circumstances. It is a very, very, hard thing to do to give up your child.


MIL is firmly pro-choice as a result.

was spirited away to one of those homes - all the way across the country from her home, when she was barely 3 months gone. She gave the baby girl up for adoption. Married at 18, had three more daughters, and died at 36 from metastasized melanoma.

10 years ago, I got a phone call from a woman who said she thought she might be my cousin. She is - now 52 years old, married with grown children. We were happy to welcome her to the family . . . and able to do so because our grandmother (the woman who sent her daughter away to go through her pregnancy and delivery without so much as a letter) had died the year before.

The fact that people like this exist makes me sad to be part of the human race.

(unless it's part of a Duggar-style swarm squadron for Jazus)