And if we haven’t had enough religious bullying today, here’s another batch.
As ThinkProgress has reported, so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” that claim to help women in need are actually established by anti-abortion activists with the sole objective of shaming women out of having abortions. Despite receiving federal and state funding, they have a history of preying on and misleading pregnant women who are seeking abortions and giving them false medical information to dissuade them from making their own decisions.
After a year-long investigation, a new report to be released today by the pro-choice group NARAL reveals that those problems plague the vast majority of North Carolina’s crisis pregnancy centers. In addition to providing false medical information, many of the centers actively proselytize and tell women of non-Christian faiths to convert or face damnation…
The number of centers in North Carolina has nearly doubled since 2006, and there are eight times as many of them as there are abortion clinics. Carey Pope, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina, said the group’s investigators found numerous instances where crisis pregnancy centers were misinforming and misleading women. “Staff and volunteers often use propaganda to dissuade women from abortions,” she said.
Publicly funded; 8 times more of them than abortion providers; medical misinformation; convert or face damnation. One-stop shopping!
North Carolina’s GOP lawmakers have flooded these anti-abortion centers with taxpayer money while defunding Planned Parenthood and taking money away from legitimate family planning centers that provide medical services. Two new state laws will drive even more funding and patients their way. Money from sales of the new “Choose Life” license plates will go to the centers, and starting this Wednesday, a state-run website will launch and list the places that provide free ultrasounds.
Keep those pesky women down.
How are these distinguished from legitimate women’s health centers in state law? If I wanted to search the Revised Code of Washington for similar funding shenanigans, what things should I look for?
“Decent” women have “decent” abortions.
http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html
We all know that decent women fly to Europe to deal with their “unfortunate condition” and recover at the family’s vacation home.
I’d like a vacation home — one that gives me a vacation from the unfortunate condition of religion.
@Gregory — I dunno. But I’m about to go have a look-see, myself. I’ll let you know if I find anything.
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