Wisconsin state health website steers women toward faith-based pregnancy center

[PeaceNikki]

A new link to a crisis pregnancy center on Wisconsin.gov, Wisconsin's state website, has led several area advocates to accuse Gov. Scott Walker's administration of blurring the lines between church and state.

The link, found under the "Family Services" subsection of "Health and Safety," leads to Care Net, an evangelical anti-abortion group that runs some 1,100 crisis pregnancy centers throughout the nation, including the Elizabeth House on Madison's east side. According to Care Net's website, its ultimate aim "is to share the love and truth of Jesus Christ."

It also claims to be a place where "those struggling with past abortions are finding God's healing and forgiveness."

Annie Laurie Gaylor, executive director of the Madison-based Freedom from Religion Foundation, accuses Walker of mistaking his role as "pastor-in-chief."

More at link: http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34245

[musette_sf]

1. shameful

[madinmaryland]

2. I can't believe that this is what our country is becoming.

:grr:

[Patiod]

3. A young friend is searching for counseling, and it's all "Christian"

She had an abortion, she doesn't regret it, but as most thinking adults know, it's not an EASY choice, and she'd like to talk to a professional counselor about it, someone who won't judge her. She's unemployed and almost completely without support (like a foster child), and was in no position to raise a baby by herself. She knows that she needs to work through her feeling of anger about her long-time boyfriend's desertion of her.

She called all the listed counseling centers, and they were all Christian-centered anti-abortion counseling.

I suggested she call Planned Parenthood in her city, and that they would probably know someone she could talk to. But of course they're trying to un-fund PP, so the only option with be "Christian" counseling.

[PeaceNikki]

4. Planned Parenthood and NARAL.

All really good people.

Peace to your friend. :hug:

[Angry Dragon]

5. Must be because Dictator Walker is such a fine Christian himself

If enough Christians like Dictator Walker gather together there will be no need of SATAN

[PeaceNikki]

6. He's actually a pastor's kid.

Or a "PK" as we called them in school.

[Angry Dragon]

7. I knew that, he grew up in Colorado

Baptist right??
That is why I threw that in ......... also said god picked his wife for him

[PeaceNikki]

8. Yup. Though Scooter calls himself "non-denominational evangelical Christian"

to cast a wider net among the Jesusy.

[Angry Dragon]

9. That just means he has lost his way and can not find his

way back to the fold

God has spoken of the evil among us, their name is Republican