06/16/2026
Update on 7B Care Clinic's June 4 town hall in Sandpoint:
First, 7B Care Clinic is an unregulated pregnancy center (UPC), also commonly called a crisis pregnancy center (CPC). While centers like 7B may partner with licensed medical providers, 7B Care Clinic itself is not regulated in the same way as a hospital, rural health clinic, or other licensed healthcare facility and does not provide the full range of reproductive or prenatal care.
On June 4, 7B was expected to announce their agreement with Newport hospital to bring an OBGYN to Sandpoint on a regular basis. 7B instead announced that the agreement with Newport has fallen through. 7B Care Clinic has indicated that it continues to seek OBGYN partners.
What does this mean? 7B is anti-abortion and anti-contraception, and any partnership with a doctor would likely adhere to these standards, thus continuing to deprive patients of the ability to build the families of their choosing on their own terms. The terms are, instead, based on their narrowly-defined version of a family.
In addition, 7B Care Clinic is also an affiliate of Care Net, a national Christian anti-abortion pregnancy-center network. Care Net supports more than 1,200 affiliated pregnancy centers nationwide, and its stated mission is to encourage people considering abortion to choose life and find “abundant life in Christ.” In other words, 7B is not simply a local pregnancy-support nonprofit; it is part of a national, unregulated, faith-based anti-abortion infrastructure.
If you're in North Idaho, the future of our reproductive healthcare options are being shaped in real time, and it's essential that we turn out for BGH's Community Conversation on Wednesday evening to let hospital leadership know exactly the kind of full-spectrum care we need and deserve.