Fake clinics foil a woman's right to choose
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 Take Action! Stop Fake "Clinics" from Deceiving Women
Planned Parenthood Action Alert in support of H.R. 5052, July 2006
So-called "crisis pregnancy centers" are proliferating across the nation — a deceitful new tactic of the anti-choice movement to keep women from getting the accurate education and health services they seek.
These fake "clinics" often masquerade as health centers offering the full range of reproductive health services, when their only real purpose is to keep women from exercising their right to choice and family planning.
The worst part? Your tax dollars are funding "crisis pregnancy centers" to the tune of $30 million.
A new bill in Congress, the "Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act" (H.R.5052), would stop "crisis pregnancy centers" from deceiving women. Urge your representative to support this important bill. Take action.
 Focus on the Family Responds to Recent Report by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) Attacking Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
News Release, PRNewswire, July 20, 2006
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Kim Conroy, Sanctity
of Human Life Director for Focus on the Family, today issued the following
statement in response to a recent report released by U.S. Congressional
Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) criticizing pro-life pregnancy
centers:
"Focus on the Family is appalled by Rep. Waxman's politically-motivated
attack on pro-life pregnancy centers, hundreds of which are licensed
medical clinics. Continue
Support legislation truth in advertising legislation for fake "pregnancy crisis centers"
Planned Parenthood Campaign, late April 2006
"Fake 'clinics' often masquerade as health centers offering the full range of reproductive health services, when their only real purpose is to keep women from exercising their right to choice and family planning. These fake pregnancy centers get millions of dollars in federal funding. Planned Parenthood is asking us to send messages from their website supporting a new bill in Congress, the "Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act" (H.R.5052). Click to take action
Peddling Deception
By Nancy Keenan (president of NARAL Pro-Choice America), TomPaine.com, March 31, 2006
"It’s bad enough that politicians are spending our tax dollars on fake 'clinics' whose sole purpose is to mislead, coerce and intimidate women. It’s worse to find out that these dollars are being pulled from real, legitimate, basic health care." Click here
Join NARAL's campaign against phony abortion services centers
April 2006
Participate in NARAL-Pro Choice campaign for a federal law to stop fake abortion services clinics. Urge your member of Congress to support “Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women’s Services Act" Click here
Crisis Pregnancy Centers Targeted in 'Crackdown on Deceit'
By Randy Hall, CNSNews.com, March 31, 2006
"Women seeking information on family planning and abortion would be protected by a 'crackdown on deceit' and from 'being lured into anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers' if a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday becomes law.
"Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) was joined by 11 co-sponsors in unveiling the Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services (SDAWS) Act, which would require the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to 'enforce truth-in-advertising standards for reproductive centers.'"
Click here for the article
Abortion Advocates Target PRCs
by Pete Winn, Citizen Link (Focus on the Family) March 31, 2006
"The pro-abortion lobby wants a crackdown on pregnancy-resource centers. Even though abortion clinics themselves are not subject to any kind of federal restraints, a pro-abortion congresswoman said she wants Congress to regulate pro-life pregnancy-resource centers (PRCs) under federal truth-in-advertising regulations." Click here for the article
Program Equips 200th Pregnancy Center With Ultrasound Imaging
By Mary Rettig, Agape Press, March 28, 2006
"The Sanctity of Human Life Director for Focus on the Family says the ministry's Option Ultrasound program has reached an exciting milestone. The initiative to equip pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) nationwide for ultrasound services as a way to prevent abortions recently saw the placement of its 200th imaging machine in Joplin, Missouri." Click here for the article.
Some Abortion Foes Forgo Politics for Quiet Talk
By John Leland, New York Times, January 11, 2006
"The women in this Bible study, a postabortion recovery group, are far from the public battles over abortion laws and the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. But in their quiet way, they represent a dimension of the anti-abortion movement that is just as passionate and far-reaching, consisting not of protesters or political activists but of Christian therapy groups, crisis pregnancy centers, adoption ministries, and support programs for single mothers and their children." Click here to read the report.
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