A young client named April Jackson, who has just found out she is pregnant with a fifth child, consults the Christian pregnancy center. The clinic’s receptionist keeps a small sign at her desk to remind herself of her mission: “We exist to erase a woman’s perceived need for an abortion.”

“I ain’t looking for no more,” April Jackson tells a counselor. But the staff of the CPC remains relentlessly optimistic. The sonographer offers her a print out with “HI, MOM!” at the top. (“I ain’t really that happy about it but I guess if I look at it I will be,” April responds.) Another assures her that one of her children is “going to have to be a great big football player and make Momma lots of money.” After her clinic visit, April tells the camera, “When I was at the CPC clinic they told me that if I had an abortion I could die from it.”

In the end, despite her misgivings, April Jackson gives birth to her fifth child, a boy named Malikye. After Malikye’s birth, CPC staff discourage her from seeking birth control. “I think it’s healthier not to have sex until we find somebody to father all these babies,” says a CPC counselor.

“I don’t think birth control is going to be the answer,” Barbara Beavers explains to the camera. “God’s ways work and that’s why we don’t give birth control and all that kind of stuff, because God’s ways work.”

At the end of Jackson a slide informs us that shortly after filming, April Jackson became pregnant again, this time with twins. After this article was published, the Center for Pregnancy Choices responded to an email I had sent earlier. (There was a mix-up about deadlines that was entirely my fault.) Erin Kate Goode, the executive director of CPC said in her email that a client calling CPC is told that the center does not “provide or refer for abortion.” A client who came in person would receive the same information, she wrote.

If a client is interested in abortion, she said, “We use a Decision Guide that gives her the opportunity to tell us what she already knows about the benefits and risks of each option.” Clients may also be referred to an app called BYD:mobile, developed by a Christian pro-life organization called CareNet, which presents its view of the risks of abortion. A client who chooses abortion must find her own provider. “Most of our patients find us from a friend’s referral or through the internet,” she wrote. “ We believe our patients are capable of finding an abortion provider the same way.”

Clients who express interest in birth control are given a handout entitled “Effectiveness of Family Planning Methods,” prepared by the federal Centers for Disease Control. “While we do not refer for birth control, the patient is given a referral for medical care and informed that the clinic may be able to help her with birth control if that is her choice,” she said.