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I don't normally post these things, but this one came in an email from Planned Parenthood asking me to post it, and it's a fucked up enough event that I actually want people to know about it.
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An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her
daughter's boyfriend to one of Indiana's Planned Parenthood
clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called "crisis
pregnancy center" run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared
a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was
designed expressly to lure Planned Parenthood patients and
deceive them.
The group took down the girl's confidential personal information
and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said
would be in their "other office" (the real Planned Parenthood
office nearby). When she arrived for her appointment, not only
did the Planned Parenthood staff have no record of her, but the
police were there. The "crisis pregnancy center" had called
them, claiming that a minor was being forced to have an abortion
against her will.
The "crisis pregnancy center" staff then proceeded to wage a
campaign of intimidation and harassment over the following days,
showing up at the girl's home and calling her father's
workplace. Our clinic director reports that the girl was "scared
to death to leave her house." They even went to her school and
urged classmates to pressure her not to have an abortion.
The anti-choice movement is setting up these "crisis pregnancy
centers" across the country. Some of them have neutral-sounding
names and run ads that falsely promise the full range of
reproductive health services, but they dispense anti-choice
propaganda and intimidation instead. And according to a recent
article in The New York Times, there are currently more of these
centers in the U.S. than there are actual abortion providers.
What's more, these centers have received $60 million in
government grants. They're being funded by our tax dollars.
A bill has just been introduced in Congress to stop the
fraudulent practices of fake clinics, but it desperately needs
more support. Tell your representative to take a stand:
anti-choice extremists must not get away with this any longer!
Go to:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fakeclinics
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An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her
daughter's boyfriend to one of Indiana's Planned Parenthood
clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called "crisis
pregnancy center" run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared
a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was
designed expressly to lure Planned Parenthood patients and
deceive them.
The group took down the girl's confidential personal information
and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said
would be in their "other office" (the real Planned Parenthood
office nearby). When she arrived for her appointment, not only
did the Planned Parenthood staff have no record of her, but the
police were there. The "crisis pregnancy center" had called
them, claiming that a minor was being forced to have an abortion
against her will.
The "crisis pregnancy center" staff then proceeded to wage a
campaign of intimidation and harassment over the following days,
showing up at the girl's home and calling her father's
workplace. Our clinic director reports that the girl was "scared
to death to leave her house." They even went to her school and
urged classmates to pressure her not to have an abortion.
The anti-choice movement is setting up these "crisis pregnancy
centers" across the country. Some of them have neutral-sounding
names and run ads that falsely promise the full range of
reproductive health services, but they dispense anti-choice
propaganda and intimidation instead. And according to a recent
article in The New York Times, there are currently more of these
centers in the U.S. than there are actual abortion providers.
What's more, these centers have received $60 million in
government grants. They're being funded by our tax dollars.
A bill has just been introduced in Congress to stop the
fraudulent practices of fake clinics, but it desperately needs
more support. Tell your representative to take a stand:
anti-choice extremists must not get away with this any longer!
Go to:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fakeclinics