crisis pregnancy centers
Reader diary posted by Garner October 14, 2009 - 3:24pm
Many of these young girls end up on welfare because they can't find a job which pays enough to afford a car, daycare, and other necessary living expenses. The "prolife" centers are no help to girls regarding this matter.
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Crisis pregnancy centers spread misinformation about abortion and birth control in an effort to dissuade women from exploring those options. The Baltimore City Council wants to change that.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 6, 2009 - 4:29pm
Following on to Kathryn Joyce's piece on Crisis Pregnancy Centers and adoption today on RH Reality Check (in which Joyce points to Bethany Adoption center as an example), Sarah Posner reports today in the American Prospect that in addition to other federal money, Bethany has recieved 8 federal grants totalling over $3 million in 2009.
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The National Abortion Federation estimates that as many as 4,000 CPCs operate in the United States, often using deceptive tactics like posing as abortion providers and showing women graphic antiabortion films. While there is growing awareness of how CPCs hinder abortion access, the centers have a broader agenda that is less well known: they seek not only to induce women to "choose life" but to choose adoption, either by offering adoption services themselves, as in Bethany's case, or by referring women to Christian adoption agencies. Far more than other adoption agencies, conservative Christian agencies demonstrate a pattern and history of coercing women to relinquish their children.
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The Family Research Council's report Wednesday commemorating 40 years of crisis pregnancy centers inadvertently confirms a dirty little secret of public health: $200 million per year is being spent on reproductive health care provided by amateurs.
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Reader diary posted by Amyadoptee September 4, 2009 - 10:48am
CPC's are not just right wing or left wing. It crosses both sides of the fence. Adoption is not the panacea of abortion.
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More news from the health care reform debate: from the fraudulent groups supporting the town-hall brawls to the fraud behind 'crisis pregnancy centers', Lindsay Beyerstein brings it all together, in one place!
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RH Reality Check hosted a media conference call with experts and advocates speaking about the deception and misinformation spread by crisis pregnancy centers, a timely issue as Congress considers whether to continue federal funding. Listen to it here!
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Crisis pregnancy centers are fake clinics that provide deceptive and erroneous information to both pregnant and non-pregnant women on pregnancy, abortion, and contraception. And they often brazenly violate the separation of church and state. So why has the Congress been funneling so much money to these centers? And will the powerful Congressman David Obey continue to do so despite the evidence?
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By Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow June 29, 2009 - 8:00am
Michigan lawmakers introduce a series of bills to address crises of sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies.
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