TIME to Clear Up a Few Misconceptions About CPCs
I know you're probably in "crisis pregnancy center" (CPC) overload. Between our YellowPages.com and Superpages.com campaign, to the promotion of "12th & Delaware," to recent legislation introduced in Congress, we have given a lot to process. But, as long as CPCs continue to mislead women about their reproductive-health options, we will continue to call out this unacceptable behavior.
With that in mind, when we read this TIME article which we were thrilled to be a part of, along with NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, we were less-than-thrilled about some key facts and truths that were left untold. Our friends at NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia quickly drafted a response for their blog, which reads, in part:
We have worked to ensure that CPCs do not utilize deception and evasion to trick people into coming into their facilities, by asking student health centers and the state legislature to support and promote policies that simply ask CPCs to be honest about what services they do (and do NOT) provide. This should not be difficult for any organization that truly has nothing to hide.
In addition to this work that we have, and will continue to do, we are challenging any new crisis pregnancy centers to hold themselves accountable. When we learned of a new CPC opening in Chesterfield County, Virginia, we launched a petition asking that the clinic hold themselves to a higher standard and commit to being honest and upfront in their advertising and other communication with women, sharing only scientifically and medically accurate information, and supporting comprehensive, science-based sex education in their community.
Be sure to go to the NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia blog and read the post in full.
There are a lot of misconceptions to clear up, but we're glad this issue is getting national attention . We will continue to work hard to ensure that women are not misled about their health-care options.
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It's great that TIME is covering the issue of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, but there are some key facts that have been left out. TIME also failed to comment on our recent report which exposes CPCs in California. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/aCEleF
Since NARAL is constantly lying to women about the safety of abortion I really don't see what the problem with Crisis Pregnancy Centers is.I would send my daughter to a CPC before she set foot in an abortion clinic
Really? Do you know how unsafe you made pregnancy sound? After all, pregnancy IS the second leading cause of death in women, worldwide. If abortion is unsafe, pregnancy is just that much moreso. So, you would really send your daughter to a CPC that forces a larger health risk on women than one that doesn't. I didn't think caring mothers did that.
The tactics of the "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" are typical of the fundamentalists' deceptive tactics in a broad area of issues. Honesty is not perceived as a Christian value by the Christian Right.
Arekushieru,
#2 cause of death WORLDWIDE. We are in the United States, our medical care is excellent, and death from pregnancy is INCREDIBLY low here. What you said is deceptive in the context of US CPC's.
ummmm John
actually the usa ranks 33rd for infant mortality there are third world countries with better birth rates than us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate
so you are better off in some third world counties than the us is your gonna have a kid.
its 6.3 per 1000 do the math a million born means 6030 deaths six thousand.
and 11 per 100,000 maternal death rate.
we rank 40th in the world
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/changing-life-preventing-maternal-mortality/story?id=9914009
it is risky and the very young triple chance so remember the health of the mother first she is a human too.
I just finished seeing the documentary and I am appalled at these pro activist
Honestly before watching this documentary I had mixed feeling about both sides, but just seeing that one bald guy’s actions and how he reacted to things made me completely turned off of everything pro lifers stand for. He made me feel sorry for the doctor that he was stalking. Even if he doesn’t agree with what the doctor does he has no right to stalk him and or put his life at risk. When he was talking while in the car he said it himself he doesn’t care about the consequences. For so called “pro lifers” you guys obviously seem uncaring to the life of others. He has no idea what goes through the mind of theses doctors or how he acts around his family or even if he has a family. And also the way he reacted to the women that was just going to talk to him and tell him that she doesn’t want her son or daughter seeing those obscene and quite frankly horrific posters was wrong. As a mother myself I would not like my son seeing those posters every day.
To me you pro lifers seem to extreme for me, it seems like its all or nothing and in the real world there is always and there forever will be a gray area. Another things that I didn’t like was the way the last women was convinced into keeping her baby. She was told she will be helped financial, what is your idea of help??? In the US it is estimated that it will cost over $200,000 to raise a child from birth to the age of 18 and that isn’t including college. So I ask again what is your idea of help???
I also don’t know why the so called “counselor” would ever tell a pregnant teen that is being emotionally abuse by the boyfriend that a baby may change him. What kind of stupid counseling is that???? These pregnant women and teens are being persuaded into keeping their unborn child, but what will you tell the kids once they come into this world unwanted and neglected, or emotionally or physically abused??? What do you tell them, at least you weren’t killed when you were a fetus??? Call me crazy, but I don’t think that is going to make them feel any better.