The deceptive practices crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) – those anti-choice, non-medical outfits that pose as reproductive health clinics – now extend to cyberspace. It's frightening enough when CPC's open up right across the street from abortion clinics. In Wausau, Wisconsin, a local CPC took the deception a step farther and began “cyber-squatting” at fhps.com, a URL that could easily be mistaken for fphs.org, the online home of Family Planning Health Services. Pat Peckham, a reporter for Wausau’s local City Pages, wrote that when users landed on the fake homepage, an audio file began playing: “Hey, wait. Don’t leave. I was going to go there, too, but then I found this place called Hope. I didn’t realize it, but it was exactly what I needed.” As a slide show rolled, the actress continued with message such as, “She didn’t judge me….” No link to the actual FPHS site was provided. There’s more at BelowTheWaist.org, FPHS’s site on reproductive health freedom.
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