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Associated PressStates React to Crisis Pregnancy CentersBy JULIA SILVERMAN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 9, 2007; 7:23 AM
ASTORIA, Ore. -- Ninety miles and a mountain range away
from the nearest abortion provider, pregnant women stream
into a tidy storefront here where they receive free pregnancy
tests, baby clothes, diapers and warnings about the alleged
dangers of abortion.
At similar pregnancy resource centers in small towns and big
cities nationwide, volunteers who believe abortion is murder
advise women that the procedure has been linked to breast
cancer and infertility.
Some states, like Oregon and New York, are trying to increase
oversight of the crisis pregnancy centers out of concern that
the information they provide about abortion may be biased or
simply wrong.
-snip-The centers say states have no right to interfere in their
efforts to encourage alternatives to abortion. Public money
helps them carry out their goals.
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