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Sat Jun 30, 2012, 05:02 PM

Federal court says its legal for ''Crisis Pregnancy Centers'' to deceive women



Court Allows Crisis Pregnancy Centers To Decieve Women | Crisis Pregnancy Centers often masquerade as abortion consultation facilities — they lure in women who are pregnant and terrified, and then often try to convince them not to get the procedure. Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that is a totally acceptable practice. The city of Baltimore passed a law in 2009 to require such centers to post disclosures of their positions on abortion and contraception. Then, a lower court put a hold on enforcement of that law. Today, the appeals court agreed with the lower court by a vote of 2-1. It is possible this decision could be reversed by a larger panel of the same court, however. The overwhelming majority of judges on the Fourth Circuit are Democratic appointees, but the panel that decided this case included two Republicans.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/29/509018/court-allows-crisis-pregnancy-centers-to-decieve-women/




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Reply Federal court says its legal for ''Crisis Pregnancy Centers'' to deceive women (Original post)
Tx4obama Jun 2012 OP
Angry Dragon Jun 2012 #1
ProfessionalLeftist Jun 2012 #2
Gormy Cuss Jun 2012 #3
maddezmom Jul 2012 #4
dana_b Jul 2012 #5

Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 05:10 PM

1. Courts rule that doctors can lie

The New American Way

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Sat Jun 30, 2012, 06:09 PM

2. NC is riddled with these forced breeding facilities

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deceptively marketed as "reproductive health" centers.

http://www.prochoicenc.org/assets/bin/pdfs/2011NARAL_CPCReport_V05_web.pdf

EDIT: I guess it's no different than telling doctors they can lie to women about their pregnancy to keep them from aborting if the fetus isn't viable or the baby won't live long after birth due to a severe deformity or whatever - or if the mother's life might be in danger by continuing/completing the pregnancy. In some situation recently in this ongoing war on women, this was also ruled legal.

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Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 09:03 PM

3. I agree with the dissenting judge

who wrote this:
U.S. Circuit Judge Robert King, who dissented, called the majority's decision "indefensible" and said "these proceedings have thus followed a course more fitting a kangaroo court than a court of the United States," given extensive evidence of their deception.

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Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:01 PM

4. holy crap

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Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Fri Jul 13, 2012, 03:20 PM

5. such b.s.

This makes me so angry. I remember taking a friend to a “crisis” center when she thought that she was pregnant (she was) and we were taken completely off guard when they presented us with these religious pamphlets on why abortion is a sin. It left a completely bad taste in my mouth as a young woman. She ended up keeping the baby but it wasn’t because of what they said to her. Once she realized that they were not going to discuss her true options with her we left and found Planned Parenthood in the next town over.

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