Surprise! New York Times Respectfully Covers Tennessee Evangelical Pregnancy Center

Newsbusters:

Saturday’s New York Times included a surprising story on the front page about an evangelical pregnancy center in Newport, Tennessee. Reporter Elisabeth Dias spent time with Wendy Ramsey, who runs Options Pregnancy Help Center in the basement of Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church for expectant mothers. The article respectfully explored how Ramsey is trying to make a difference in the lives of pregnant women — and yes, tries to evangelize about Jesus.

The June morning was quiet, the opposite of the anti-abortion protests she used to attend. Protests alone, she had come to think, were “not how Jesus handled anything.” She remembered a Bible story of Jesus welcoming an outcast woman — people like the pregnant women and new mothers she now spends her days trying to help.

“If we want to be pro-life, we have to want more than legislation,” she said. “It just can’t begin and end there.”

This is a fine point, but it also feels like a cartoon of the average pro-life activist, that they only march and never support pregnancy centers.

There’s another paragraph like that deeper into the article:  more