Dear Friend,

Women are being preyed upon by fake health clinics set up to lie and
pressure them into keeping unwanted pregnancies -- and now these centers
are being funded by the federal government.(1)

Obria Medical Clinics have received $1.7 million in Title X funds, which
they use to offer what they claim to be full service reproductive care,
except they don't offer abortion. Instead, they offer "abortion pill
reversal" -- which doesn't exist.

Obria and other fake health clinics are spreading like wildfire, and
people need to be warned. Courage Campaign is teaming up with Black Women
for Wellness to launch an urgent campaign to educate people, especially
people seeking abortions, about these fake health clinics and help them
find legitimate, high-quality reproductive health care. Will you invest in
our education campaign today?

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll donate to help Black Women for Wellness and Courage Campaign
educate women and pregnant people about anti-choice fake health clinics.

Obria and other similar centers bill themselves as "crisis pregnancy
centers." They advertise that they reproductive services, but in reality,
they lie and shame women into opting out of abortion.

On a website with smiling models wearing stethoscopes, Obria videos play
offering answers to questions about "sex, fertility, and pregnancy." And
the site also offers "abortion pill reversal," a procedure that no medical
study has proven viable. 

Obria also tells women that being on the birth control pill has been
linked to cancer (it hasn't) and that women need to abstain from sex to
learn about their cycle (they don't).(2) 

There are crisis pregnancy centers that don't employ medical
professionals, but have their employees dress in scrubs to fool the people
who walk through their doors. Many have established offices next to
abortion clinics and then try to steer women away from their clinics into
their doors. 

It's bad enough that Planned Parenthood has lost out on tens of millions
of dollars since Trump and Pence upended Title X rules. Giving that
federal money to anti-choice fake health clinics designed to pressure and
lie to women is simply unconscionable, and it's happening. 

We won't let these clinics get away with lying to vulnerable people. We're
teaming up with Black Women for Wellness for a groundbreaking public
education media campaign to make sure people know the difference between a
real health clinic and an anti-choice fake clinic.

Black Women for Wellness is a grassroots reproductive justice organization
focused specifically on improving the health and well-being of black women
via an intersectional lens. BWW started out by matching pregnant women to
mentors, and they've grown to become an incredibly powerful political
advocacy organization in California. We couldn't be more thrilled to have
them as a partner.

[ [link removed] ]Will you donate to help stop anti-choice fake pregnancy clinics?

Yours in the fight for women's health,

Molly, along with Analeeza, Annie, Brian, Campaign, Deepthi, Diego, Eddie,
Gabby, Jay, Lindsay, Mary, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team)

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