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Beware of anti-abortion "Crisis Pregnancy Centers." They abuse women when they're most vulnerable.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/06/1214110/-Exposing-Crisis-Pregnancy-Centers-and-their-disgusting-tacticsExposing Crisis Pregnancy Centers and their disgusting tactics
by sasharusa
This post will be long, but what I am about to ask of you will greatly help women all over the United States. I will tell you about the Crisis Pregnancy Centers and their tactics.
As most of you probably already know, a Crisis Pregnancy Center is not a medical facility. A Crisis Pregnancy Center, which is also sometimes referred to as a Pregnancy Recourse Center, is a non- profit, religious, pro-life facility, that claims to help women who are facing unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, including access to abortion, help with pregnancy related items, and help with adoption placements. What they don't tell women is that not only do they not offer any abortion services, but they aren't even an actual medical clinic. A pregnant woman would be better off buying a home pregnancy test and find a county clinic than go to these people.
Another thing they don't tell their "clients" is the fact that they are not bound by the HIPAA laws, so they can do whatever they wish with the information they are given. Numerous CPCs across the country have had numerous complaints of harassment, not only at home, but at work, and going as far as contacting their co-workers and disclosing the woman's personal business in hopes she is shamed by others and doesn't abort. This isn't rare either. Just in recent news, this was forwarded to me, and as I frequent Reddit daily, I have stumbled upon this quite a lot within the last few days:
The above 2 images were posted 3 days ago on Imgur and it has made the rounds not only on Imgur, but Tumblr, Facebook, Reddit, and other social networks. The description of what has happened at the above clinic is one of many. Hell, even the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice condemns Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
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by sasharusa
This post will be long, but what I am about to ask of you will greatly help women all over the United States. I will tell you about the Crisis Pregnancy Centers and their tactics.
As most of you probably already know, a Crisis Pregnancy Center is not a medical facility. A Crisis Pregnancy Center, which is also sometimes referred to as a Pregnancy Recourse Center, is a non- profit, religious, pro-life facility, that claims to help women who are facing unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, including access to abortion, help with pregnancy related items, and help with adoption placements. What they don't tell women is that not only do they not offer any abortion services, but they aren't even an actual medical clinic. A pregnant woman would be better off buying a home pregnancy test and find a county clinic than go to these people.
Another thing they don't tell their "clients" is the fact that they are not bound by the HIPAA laws, so they can do whatever they wish with the information they are given. Numerous CPCs across the country have had numerous complaints of harassment, not only at home, but at work, and going as far as contacting their co-workers and disclosing the woman's personal business in hopes she is shamed by others and doesn't abort. This isn't rare either. Just in recent news, this was forwarded to me, and as I frequent Reddit daily, I have stumbled upon this quite a lot within the last few days:
The above 2 images were posted 3 days ago on Imgur and it has made the rounds not only on Imgur, but Tumblr, Facebook, Reddit, and other social networks. The description of what has happened at the above clinic is one of many. Hell, even the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice condemns Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
...
continued at Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/06/1214110/-Exposing-Crisis-Pregnancy-Centers-and-their-disgusting-tactics
