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This is not your mother's pregnancy resource center.Care Net's new clinic in Norman, Okla., is on MySpace and soon will be on Facebook. Staff will meet with sororities and fraternities at nearby University of Oklahoma. Text messages with a toll-free number will be sent to students. And free ultrasounds will be offered, thanks to Focus on the Family's Option Ultrasound Program.Dr. Tom Coburn, a U.S. senator representing Oklahoma, strongly endorsed the clinic's efforts."They make such a difference in so many women's lives-women who are hurting and feel caught and trapped," Coburn told CitizenLink."They come and support both their emotional needs and physical needs and medical needs.It's just a great service to women who feel the results of being vulnerable and have consequences to their action."There's no judgment with it. There's just love and caring. That's really the model of Christ that we're supposed to be exemplifying."Coburn, who has delivered more than 4,000 babies, will be at the clinic Tuesday for its grand reopening.
"The clinic is great," he said. "It's going to be the first clinic in Oklahoma that becomes a full clinic, does STD screening, and ultrasound, the whole works."It's tremendous, because once you see a beating heart and moving limbs and wiggling baby in a uterus, no longer is this an obscure nothing, but rather something very real and significant."Executive Director Crystal Drwenski came onboard at a low point for the ministry."What's been so exciting for me about this, this center … was on the verge of closing its doors," she said. "We have a brand-new building across the street from a hospital, in a college town."Before, we were in a fallen-down building that wasn't a blessing to anyone. In our partnership with Focus on the Family, with Option Ultrasound … we can reach this demographic."Who better to help us deliver that message than Dr. Coburn?"Drwenski said Care Net will not cede territory to Planned Parenthood anymore. She plans to meet with the fraternities and sororities at the 20,000-student university."We cannot sit around and expect girls to come to our centers because there's a free pregnancy test," she said. "We've got to have services that girls need. We've got to be more relevant in their world, in their community."You're going to see a very hip, cool brand."The 2,600-square-foot clinic is expected to open in early September.It will offer post-abortive healing retreats,
counseling, testing for sexually transmitted infections (STI), pregnancy counseling, ultrasounds, and abstinence and STI education.
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Visit Care Net and Option Ultrasound online.
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