Faith-based pregnancy centers strive to offer "alternatives to abortion" that supporters claim aid women and critics assert manipulate pregnant people, stigmatize abortion, and potentially delay clients from obtaining medical care. However, scholars know little about the exchanges within appointments and how clients make sense of these experiences. Drawing on ethnographic observations of client appointments in two pregnancy centers in the West and 29 in-depth interviews with clients, this article uses an intersectional framework to analyze client experiences. Clients favorably compared centers to clinical health care providers, emphasizing the unexpectedly attentive emotional care they received. These evaluations stem from clients' reproductive histories, which are shaped by gender, racism, and economic inequalities that configure their access to and interactions within the health system. Emotional care serves to create and maintain pregnancy centers' impression of legitimacy among clients.

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“这不是很公开的诊所”：基于信仰的怀孕中心的客户体验。

以信仰为基础的怀孕中心努力提供“堕胎的替代方案”，支持者声称这些方案可以帮助妇女，而批评者则认为这些方案操纵孕妇、污蔑堕胎，并可能延迟客户获得医疗护理。然而，学者们对预约中的交流以及客户如何理解这些经历知之甚少。本文借鉴对西方两个怀孕中心的客户预约的人种学观察以及对客户的 29 次深度访谈，使用交叉框架来分析客户体验。客户对中心与临床医疗保健提供者进行了积极的比较，强调他们得到了意想不到的细心的情感护理。这些评估源于客户的生育历史，这些历史受到性别、种族主义和经济不平等的影响，这些不平等决定了他们获得卫生系统的机会和在卫生系统内的互动。情感护理有助于在客户中建立和维持怀孕中心的合法性印象。