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John,
Crisis Pregnancy Centers are not what they seem. Rather than offering the full range of healthcare options to pregnant people, their purpose is to prevent women from learning about or using abortion services. They coerce, pressure, frighten, and shame women into carrying unwanted pregnancies.
In 16 states, these “clinics” are funded with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to provide misinformation about abortion while also failing to provide access to basic contraceptive choices, including medication, IUDs, and even condoms.
The “services” provided by these clinics are really misdirections that serve to confuse and manipulate people who come to them desperate for help. And about half the states that fund these clinics also misdirect federal funds intended to support low-income people and families.
Sign the petition and tell state governments: Stop funding fake abortion clinics! Instead, direct taxpayer money to genuine public health services and contraceptive access.
Because Crisis Pregnancy Centers aren’t actually medical clinics, they are not bound by federal privacy laws including HIPAA. Especially in states with anti-abortion laws, this information can be shared with other anti-abortion organizations, or used to harass those who are seeking basic healthcare.
Many Crisis Pregnancy Centers offer free pregnancy tests and counseling, as well as STD testing, but the information they give may be inaccurate. For example, they may advise that a pregnancy is later than it actually is, to discourage clients from seeking an abortion. They may offer “pre-abortion screenings” or “abortion education,” but they will not help anyone in actually obtaining an abortion.
A Crisis Pregnancy Center may discuss religion when the client does not wish to, or pressure a client into putting a future baby up for adoption, and they may provide only fertility awareness for preventing conception. They may shame people for having sex before marriage or single parenting, or they may say pejorative things about people of color or LGBTQ+ people. These centers are not bound by actual medical ethics.
Healthcare funding should only go toward actual health care, bound by medical ethics and with the health of the patient as the determining priority. Tell state governments to stop funding fake clinics and instead to use public health funds as they are intended: to support the public health.
Thank you for protecting women’s rights to basic health care and accurate information about reproductive health.
- Amanda
Amanda Ford, Director
Democracy for America
Advocacy Fund
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