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And Don’t Forget the Alleged "Litigation Crisis"

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Amanda on the silly lawsuits filed by “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” in order to burden clincs that actually provide useful medical services to women:

From R. Mildred (whose take on this whole thing is very funny), the new strategy of the anti-choicers is to file nuisance lawsuits against abortion providers by claiming that abortion providers are pretending to be “crisis pregnancy centers” and using deceit to coerce women into abortions. It’s projection on a whole new level. While women’s clinics exist to empower women to control their own reproductive lives and make their own choices, CPCs are fundamentally coercive organizations. First of all, they are run by groups that agitate for a ban on abortion and generally on contraception as well. But they’re coercive as they exist now, because their entire existence is dependent on the non-existence of a ban on abortions—in other words, CPCs are there to find as many legal means as they can to prevent women from making informed choices while it is still legal to do so.

Think about it—once abortion is banned, do you think there’s a chance CPCs will continue to exist? They won’t be necessary anymore, because their main “service” is to present a high pressure sales pitch, complete with deceit and misinformation, to prevent women from getting abortions. Full stop. They have upped their “services” to handing out a box of diapers and a teddy bear to women who ask in an attempt to stave off criticism from pro-choicers about how they don’t actually have any real services, but there’s no college tuition inside that teddy bear, much less 18 years worth of food, housing, healthcare and child care funding. But what is fundamentally coercive about CPCs is the way they present themselves as medical service organizations, offering inexpensive “services” by volunteers that appear medical-ish, and then using this illusion to feed women more misinformation. (For further information, I recommend this PDF of a report by Rep. Waxman’s office on CPCs, where they found that 87% of the CPCs they investigated that are receiving federal funds provided coercive misinformation, much of which implied to women that if they got abortions they would go crazy and/or die of cancer.)

See also Lindsay.

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