Issue #4 ANTI-CHOICE PREGNANCY CENTERS

Abortion: Talk About It                                                   Keep abortion accessible. Speak up and speak out.

QUICK QUIZ

You sit down in a diner, and your paper placemat shows ads for local services. One ad asks CRISIS PREGNANCY? and lists a number to call. If you call, you’ll reach:

A.     Planned Parenthood   B.  a health clinic  C.  a “crisis pregnancy center”

Answer is C: an anti-choice center for talking people out of having an abortion.

Nothing fake about our facts. Check out References.

ANTI-CHOICE PREGNANCY CENTERS 

Across the US, more than 2,700 crisis pregnancy centers, which go by a variety of names, counsel pregnant clients against having an abortion. These centers are an essential part of the crusade to end access to legal abortions. One network of centers aims “to make abortion unwanted today and unthinkable for future generations.” 

Center ads and descriptions are frequently deceptive, luring people in with free services. Some centers hide their anti-abortion purpose, provide false information, and/or offer ultrasounds so that they appear to be licensed medical clinics when they are not.

Increasingly, these centers are securing public funding meant for comprehensive reproductive health care. With our tax dollars, people who visit such a center receive limited services and misleading guidance about their options. 

Talk to friends, family, local officeholders, and community organizations about these anti-choice centers near you.

OWRS (Older Women Remember and Speak Out) is developing Abortion: Talk About It, a series of short emails with reliable information that you can use to start conversations and support others doing the same. (Previous issues at Archive.) Share these emails on social media. Forward to friends, family, and co-workers. Ask them to go to OWRSpeakout.org and sign up.

We can’t change something we don’t talk about!

From Older Women Remember & Speak Out

 OWRS Issue #4, Jan. 2020