Women Share Their Stories Of Being Lied To By Crisis Pregnancy Centers - Salon

[WillyT]

Women share their stories of being lied to by crisis pregnancy centers
"They told me condoms have holes and birth control causes cancer," writes one woman
KATIE MCDONOUGH - Salon
11/15/13



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“A CPC [crisis pregnancy center] told me that birth control is a mini abortion every month,” writes one woman on a new Tumblr dedicated to collecting the stories of women who have been lied to by anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers.

“The CPC counselor told me I’d get breast cancer if I had an abortion,” writes another.

And another: “The CPC told me I would become infertile if I had an abortion.”

And another: “They told me condoms have holes and birth control causes cancer.”

Four women, four lies. But because these deceptive practices are widespread, there are many other women with personal stories of how these anti-choice counseling centers tried to use medical misinformation and antiabortion sermonizing to mislead them about the full range of their reproductive healthcare choices.

You can read them here: http://exposingfakeclinics.tumblr.com/

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Link: http://www.salon.com/2013/11/15/women_share_their_stories_of_being_lied_to_by_crisis_pregnancy_centers/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These Crisis Pregnancy Centers are centers for LIES.

We need to combat them with every tool at our disposal.

It just infuriates me that they can get away with garbage like this.

[WillyT]

3. Well... They Wear White Lab Coats And Post As Doctors Don'tcha Know...

[PeaceNikki]

2. And so many places in the country have 3 of these for every abortion provider.

It's a crisis alright.

Thanks for posting.

[WillyT]

4. Anytime...

[REP]

5. From The Nation

Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), the nonprofit pregnancy-testing facilities set up by antiabortion groups to dissuade women from having abortions, have become fixtures of the antiabortion landscape, buttressed by an estimated $60 million in federal abstinence and marriage-promotion funds. The National Abortion Federation estimates that as many as 4,000 CPCs operate in the United States, often using deceptive tactics like posing as abortion providers and showing women graphic antiabortion films. While there is growing awareness of how CPCs hinder abortion access, the centers have a broader agenda that is less well known: they seek not only to induce women to "choose life" but to choose adoption, either by offering adoption services themselves, as in Bethany's case, or by referring women to Christian adoption agencies. Far more than other adoption agencies, conservative Christian agencies demonstrate a pattern and history of coercing women to relinquish their children.

Bethany guided Jordan through the Medicaid application process and in April moved her in with home-schooling parents outside Myrtle Beach. There, according to Jordan, the family referred to her as one of the agency's "birth mothers"--a term adoption agencies use for relinquishing mothers that many adoption reform advocates reject--although she hadn't yet agreed to adoption. "I felt like a walking uterus for the agency," says Jordan.

Jordan was isolated in the shepherding family's house; her only social contact was with the agency, which called her a "saint" for continuing her pregnancy but asked her to consider "what's best for the baby." "They come on really prolife: look at the baby, look at its heartbeat, don't kill it. Then, once you say you won't kill it, they ask, What can you give it? You have nothing to offer, but here's a family that goes on a cruise every year."

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"My options were to leave the hospital walking, with no money," says Jordan. "Or here's a couple with Pottery Barn furniture. You sacrifice yourself, not knowing it will leave an impact on you and your child for life."

The next morning, Jordan was rushed through signing relinquishment papers by a busy, on-duty nurse serving as notary public. As soon as she'd signed, the couple left with the baby, and Jordan was taken home without being discharged. The shepherding family was celebrating and asked why Jordan wouldn't stop crying. Five days later, she used her last $50 to buy a Greyhound ticket to Greenville, where she struggled for weeks to reach a Bethany post-adoption counselor as her milk came in and she rapidly lost more than fifty pounds in her grief.

When Jordan called Bethany's statewide headquarters one night, her shepherding mother answered, responding coldly to Jordan's lament. "You're the one who spread your legs and got pregnant out of wedlock," she told Jordan. "You have no right to grieve for this baby."

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[WillyT]

6. Thank You For That !!!

[REP]

7. She turned this research into a book:

The Child Catchers by Katherine Joyce

[1humanwoman]

8. Takedowns of the Lies

I am writing a series debunking these lies. The "mini abortion" is the first topic I cover:

http://humanwithuterus.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/truths-about-abortion-lies-the-mini-abortion/

I'll also be covering breast cancer, cancer, and infertility.

[gopiscrap]

9. welcome to DU

[msanthrope]

10. Welcome to DU. nt

[In_The_Wind]

11. Hello ~ 1humanwoman

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Thank you

[chknltl]

12. Welcome to the Democratic Underground 1humanwoman

As a guy who recently had a lump removed from my breast, I hope you may be able to cover the topic of male breast cancer too. I look forward to reading your posts.