Fake Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Doing my part to spread the word. As a Planned Parenthood alum, I still support their mission and vision, and reading stuff like this just pisses me right the hell off.
"An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend to one of Indiana's Planned Parenthood clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called "crisis pregnancy center" run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was designed expressly to lure Planned Parenthood patients and deceive them.
The group took down the girl's confidential personal information and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said would be in their "other office" (the real Planned Parenthood office nearby). When she arrived for her appointment, not only did the Planned Parenthood staff have no record of her, but the police were there. The "crisis pregnancy center" had called them, claiming that a minor was being forced to have an abortion against her will. The "crisis pregnancy center" staff then proceeded to wage a campaign of intimidation and harassment over the following days, showing up at the girl's home and calling her father's workplace.
Our clinic director reports that the girl was "scared to death to leave her house." They even went to her school and urged classmates to pressure her not to have an abortion. The anti-choice movement is setting up these "crisis pregnancy centers" across the country. Some of them have neutral-sounding names and run ads that falsely promise the full range of reproductive health services, but they dispense anti-choice propaganda and intimidation instead. And according to a recent article in The New York Times, there are currently more of these centers in the U.S. than there are actual abortion providers. What's more, these centers have received $60 million in government grants. They're being funded by our tax dollars."
A bill has just been introduced in Congress to stop the fraudulent practices of fake clinics, but it desperately needs more support.
Tell your representative to take a stand: anti-choice extremists must not get away with this any longer!
Go to: http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fakeclinics
"An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend to one of Indiana's Planned Parenthood clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called "crisis pregnancy center" run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was designed expressly to lure Planned Parenthood patients and deceive them.
The group took down the girl's confidential personal information and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said would be in their "other office" (the real Planned Parenthood office nearby). When she arrived for her appointment, not only did the Planned Parenthood staff have no record of her, but the police were there. The "crisis pregnancy center" had called them, claiming that a minor was being forced to have an abortion against her will. The "crisis pregnancy center" staff then proceeded to wage a campaign of intimidation and harassment over the following days, showing up at the girl's home and calling her father's workplace.
Our clinic director reports that the girl was "scared to death to leave her house." They even went to her school and urged classmates to pressure her not to have an abortion. The anti-choice movement is setting up these "crisis pregnancy centers" across the country. Some of them have neutral-sounding names and run ads that falsely promise the full range of reproductive health services, but they dispense anti-choice propaganda and intimidation instead. And according to a recent article in The New York Times, there are currently more of these centers in the U.S. than there are actual abortion providers. What's more, these centers have received $60 million in government grants. They're being funded by our tax dollars."
A bill has just been introduced in Congress to stop the fraudulent practices of fake clinics, but it desperately needs more support.
Tell your representative to take a stand: anti-choice extremists must not get away with this any longer!
Go to: http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fakeclinics
posted by Jenn at
6:25 PM
8 Comments:
Or you could just have an open relationship with your daughter and go to a GP.
I don't cotton to liars or weaselers.
Bad enough they misrepresent themselves and their agenda, but making false reports to police and stalking the girl and her family are criminal acts, and absolutely prosecutable already.
In my opinion, somebody needs killin'.
Somebody always does.
--Travis--
I've been hearing about this more and more and it's infuriating. You know that this is Bush, right? He's funding this program with our Tax Dollar$. I need to find the article I read last week stating this. WHY ISN'T THAT DUDE WHO WAS OBSESSED WITH JODI FOSTER SHOOTING OUR PRESIDENT?
Tom - most OB/GYN docs don't do abortions, and even if they do, they don't want to do them in their office.
In this article, the mother *was* involved. Imagine how awful they are to the girls whose parents are not there.
Even worse, the antis have pressured many schools into taking abortion completely out of their curriculum, so even if med students want to learn, they can't.
This is my biggest soap box issue. Nothing quite pisses me off like people thinking they know what's best for everyone else, especially based on their own narrow religious beliefs.
I could tell you some stories. Damn those people.
And Beth, yes, our tax dollars at work. Almost makes me want to move to Canada.
Hey don't worry about moving.
The Republicans nd the Democrats are already intent on moving you to Mexico. They'll just redraw the border.
Doesn't PP get tax dollars, too?
We have the official Border Patrol, and tax dollars also go into La Raza, MeCHA, and the ACLU.
Money for EVERYBODY! YIPPEE!
Sorry, not for you.
--Travis--
I'm pro-life, but I'm bothered by the deceptive practice you described.
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