| 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? 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. 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) Footnotes:  |
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