Care Net
Care Net is an evangelical Christian network of crisis pregnancy centers operating primarily in the United States. As an anti-abortion organization, its centers seek to persuade women not to have abortions. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, it is one of the nation's two largest networks of crisis pregnancy centers.
History
According to its literature, Care Net was influenced by the leadership of former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop and Christian apologist Dr. Francis Schaeffer. The organization was founded in 1975 as the Christian Action Council by Dr. Harold O. J. Brown, with its primary focus to engage evangelicals in responding to the "abortion crisis". It opened its first crisis pregnancy center in 1983. One of its primary strategies was the picketing of abortion clinics.In the 1990s, the organization’s mission shifted toward supporting anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, including a boycott of Planned Parenthood and corporations that had business relationships with Planned Parenthood, such as AT&T. In 1999, the organization changed its name to Care Net. Care Net reports having 1,100 affiliated pregnancy centers across North America. In 2012, Roland C. Warren, former president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, joined Care Net as president and CEO.