{"id":6683,"date":"2018-04-09T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2018-10-29T21:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T01:17:05","slug":"confronting-crisis-pregnancy-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/confronting-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Confronting &#8216;Crisis Pregnancy Centers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People have been hurt enough by these right-wing anti-abortion centers passing themselves off as abortion clinics. So what say we do something about them, eh?<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Lady Elaine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">A new resource has emerged that exposes walk-in clinics set up to trick teenagers and women into carrying out their pregnancies.<i> <\/i><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exposefakeclinicspgh.com\/\"><i>Expose Fake Clinics Pgh<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/span><i> <\/i>is a project that puts Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC) on blast. Otherwise known to women\u2019s health and pro-choice advocates alike as \u201cfake clinics\u201d, CPCs are non-profit religion based offices that are set up with the sole purpose of stopping women from seeking out or obtaining an abortion. In an attempt to woo women away from clinics that also provide abortions, they lure in females, especially targeting the young and pregnant, with their deceptive billboards, websites, literature, and a variety of other dishonest tactics. Dressed in medical garb, they are not licensed medical facilities, yet offer free pregnancy tests, sonograms, and supposed medical advice and counseling services.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6691\" style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6691\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/confronting-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/wcn-reviewing-sonograms\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"WCN reviewing sonograms\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u201cOur Medical Directors and Senior Staff RNs review ultrasounds at our Oakland clinic.\u201d Photo credit WCN, March 2018. Unlike most CPC\u2019s, Women\u2019s Choice Network lists 3 doctors on their \u201cmedical team\u201d. Dr. Lisa Ference practices family medicine (of which her treatment areas do not cover obgyn care) at Partners in Health UPMC, Patrick McMahon practices orthopedic surgery at his private practice, and Cathy Kim is a radiologist at Allegheny General Hospital.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-6691\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?resize=356%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?resize=678%2C509&amp;ssl=1 678w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?resize=326%2C245&amp;ssl=1 326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WCN-reviewing-sonograms.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u201cOur Medical Directors and Senior Staff RNs review ultrasounds at our Oakland clinic.\u201d Photo credit Women&#8217;s Choice Network, March 2018. Unlike most CPC\u2019s, WCN lists 3 doctors on their \u201cmedical team\u201d. Dr. Lisa Ference practices family medicine (of which her treatment areas do not cover obgyn care) at Partners in Health UPMC, Patrick McMahon practices orthopedic surgery at his private practice, and Cathy Kim is a radiologist at Allegheny General Hospital.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\">By preying on women at a vulnerable moment in their lives, CPCs persuade people seeking healthcare and information into visiting their centers. <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/politics\/news\/a43101\/pregnancy-centers-august-2015\/\">Once inside<\/a><\/span><\/span>, the woman is met with a strict anti-abortion agenda and some medical misinformation- sometimes <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/endthelies.com\/\">outright lies<\/a><\/span><\/span>. CPC staff have been known to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/08\/07\/crisis-pregnancy-centers_n_3721377.html\">talk women out of birth control<\/a>, use <a href=\"http:\/\/txpregnancy.org\/shady-sonograms\/\">sonogram images<\/a> mixed with counseling\/prayer as emotional arm twisting, and by mixing a neutral clinic environment with an anti-choice agenda, they succeed in promoting ideology over evidence.<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Expose Fake <\/i><i>Clinics Pgh<\/i> is a new campaign launched by the Socialist Feminist Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America (Pittsburgh DSA). On the website, one can find information on how to identify a CPC, a list of CPCs in the area, where to obtain an abortion, how to take action (albeit only through the group DSA), a discussion on barriers to reproductive justice in PA, and further reading on abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">While the CPC locations and abortion resources are region specific, the information about CPCs is not at all unique to Western PA. Figures from 2017 report that there are more than 3,000 CPCs across the country- in every state- and their tactics are nearly identical at each. The model used by DSA to expose fake clinics could easily be duplicated in other cities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6692\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WomensChoice.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6692\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/confronting-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/womenschoice\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WomensChoice.jpg?fit=1024%2C1366&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1366\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WomensChoice\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Women\u2019s Choice Network, of their 4 clinics, one is located at 4615 Fifth Ave., Ste 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Located 3 blocks from Birthright of Pittsburgh, and billed to the college campus it sits on as an STD Testing Center. Photo credit: KARA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WomensChoice.jpg?fit=640%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-6692\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WomensChoice.jpg?resize=244%2C325&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WomensChoice.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WomensChoice.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WomensChoice.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Women\u2019s Choice Network, of their 4 clinics, one is located at 4615 Fifth Ave., Ste 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Located 3 blocks from Birthright of Pittsburgh, and billed to the college campus it sits on as an STD Testing Center. Photo credit: KARA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\">The beginnings of this anti-CPC campaign are rooted in an agreement by DSA members \u201cthat the risk these \u2018clinics\u2019 pose to people in the area was urgent and needed to be met with strong and purposeful action,\u201d says Sofia, Secretary of the Socialist Feminist Committee of DSA Pittsburgh. \u201cWe elected the anti-CPC campaign as our committee&#8217;s main external project. Internally, we&#8217;ve been focusing on efforts to make the DSA more child and caregiver friendly.\u201d Members doing this pro-choice work are parents and caregivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">In 1967, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/files\/cpchistory2.pdf\">the first<\/a><\/span><\/span> Crisis Pregnancy Center in the U.S. was opened by Robert Pearson in Hawaii. As a way to promote the Pregnancy Center Movement, Pearson, a home builder of Roman Catholic faith, founded the Pearson Foundation in 1969. The Pearson Foundation was a St. Louis-based anti-choice organization that assisted local groups in setting up crisis counseling centers. The foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/01\/23\/nyregion\/pregnancy-centers-anti-abortion-role-challenged.html\">training materials<\/a> included a 27 minute slideshow, called \u201cCaring,\u201dof photos of bloody fetuses in trash bins and one of a gurney carrying a woman who is apparently dead and is covered by a sheet. It ends by comparing abortion to Hitler\u2019s \u201cfinal solution.\u201d In 1984, Pearson authored a widely used training manual where he outlined how to deceive women. <i>How to Start and Operate Your Own Pro-Life Outreach Crisis Pregnancy Center<\/i> is a manual described by law-enforcement officials around the U.S. as a 93-page guidebook of ways to mislead consumers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6690\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birthright.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6690\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/confronting-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/birthright\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birthright.jpg?fit=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Birthright\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Birthright of Pittsburgh is one of 450 chapters of Birthright International. Located at 160 Craig St., Ste 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, it is located in the same building as a Kaplan test prep center, next door to an all girls Catholic high school, and nearby several college campuses. In contrast to the overt Christian perspective of most CPC networks, Birthright has a stated philosophy of non-evangelism. Photo credit: KARA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birthright.jpg?fit=640%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-6690\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birthright.jpg?resize=290%2C386&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birthright.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birthright.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birthright.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birthright.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Birthright of Pittsburgh is one of 450 chapters of Birthright International. Located at 160 Craig St., Ste 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, it is located in the same building as a Kaplan test prep center, next door to an all girls Catholic high school, and nearby several college campuses. In contrast to the overt Christian perspective of most CPC networks, Birthright has a stated philosophy of non-evangelism. Photo credit: KARA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\">Pearson has publicly admitted this deception. In a 1994 speech, he responded, \u201cobviously, we\u2019re fighting Satan\u2026 A killer, who in this case is the girl who wants to kill her baby, has no right to information that will her kill her baby. Therefore, when she calls and says, \u2018Do you do abortions?\u2019 we do not tell her, no, we don\u2019t do abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The majority of CPCs are overwhelming run by anti-choice conservative <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101201192442\/http:\/\/www.atcmag.com\/v6n3\/article9.asp\">Christian groups<\/a><\/span><\/span>. Some are run by the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Abortion-foes-are-getting-public-funds-At-least-2617968.php\">Catholic Church<\/a><\/span><\/span> or by other church groups. CPCs gained power throughout the \u201880s and \u201990s through the support of a few major umbrella organizations, Care Net and Heartbeat International.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">However, it is a myth that they are funded only by private dollars from anti-choice donors. They are also funded publicly, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/tanf-cpcs-ec002305dd18\/#.t00ru3nnf\">receiving tax dollars<\/a><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">f<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">r<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">om<\/span> state governments. States set aside money for anti-abortion centers that do not provide medical care and will not refer clients to clinics that prescribe birth control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">In 2001, Pennsylvania was the first state to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/04\/24\/abortion-religion-pregnancy-centers_n_1446506.html\">funneling money<\/a> from welfare funds to support CPCs. The funding to support CPCs comes from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF, a.k.a. <i>welfare<\/i>). <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/08\/AR2006090801967_pf.html\">By 2006<\/a><\/span><\/span>, 20 states subsidized CPCs. Between 2001 and 2006, over $60 million in federal funds- much of it from welfare or family planning budgets- was paid to CPCs, mostly to support abstinence education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Pennsylvania alone gave more than $30 million from 2012 to 2017 to Real Alternatives, a network of pregnancy centers. The state reimbursed the centers for providing ideological counseling to pregnant women at more than $1 per minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">A handful of CPCs have also received indirect funding from the federal government during the Obama administration. Additionally, 29 states funnel money to CPCs through the sale of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/state-policy\/explore\/choose-life-license-plates\">&#8220;Choose Life&#8221; license plates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Critics of CPCs illustrate that the emphasis on abortion alternatives drains money from basic health care. As evidence, they point to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Abortion-foes-are-getting-public-funds-At-least-2617968.php\">practices in Texas<\/a>. Texas anti-abortion groups had counseled 660 women and teens with the tax dollars made available by the shift in resources. Even lawmakers questioned the cost: the counseling had run an average of $450 per client. By comparison, a year of exams and contraception costs $180. <i>(<\/i><i>Figures from <\/i><i>2007)<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Evolving with the times, CPCs now use the Internet as a means of advertising. Some use search engine optimization to get their websites closer to the top of search results or bid against abortion providers to appear at the top of sponsored link sections on search engines such as Google. CPCs will often use two websites, one fundraising website that details an anti-abortion mission to secure donors, and another website that provides alleged medical information to attract women seeking contraception, counseling, or abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cWhen people google &#8216;abortion&#8217; and &#8216;pittsburgh&#8217; CPCs are often the first places to show up. The more traffic we can generate on our website, the better chances that people will see it pop up in a search, and be able to get the facts, rather than be duped by a fake clinic that is just trying to coerce them or waste their time,\u201d Sofia says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Google\u2019s ad <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/adwordspolicy\/answer\/6008942?hl=en\">policy<\/a><\/span><\/span> prohibits misrepresentation, which is why the company started removing fake clinic ads in 2014, after an investigation found that most Google searches for \u201cabortion clinic\u201d produced one ad or more for an anti-choice clinic in each state. However, CPC <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/article\/2017\/12\/08\/google-removes-misleading-anti-choice-fake-clinic-ads\/\">ads remain<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Sofia notes that the biggest thing people can do to combat CPCs is to \u201cRaise awareness. It&#8217;s just something many people don&#8217;t know about until they&#8217;ve dealt with one of these clinics, and by then it&#8217;s too late to change their experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Antifascist groups such as Anti-Racist Action (ARA) have a long history of fighting for reproductive freedom, using the same tactics they use to fight against organized white supremacist groups. Because of the work members had been doing, at a conference in 1997 ARA adopted its fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/antiracistaction.org\/points-of-unity\/\">Point of Unity<\/a> to read &#8220;We defend abortion rights and support unrestricted reproductive freedom for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6685\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pc-e1523307408689.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6685\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/confronting-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/pc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pc-e1523307408689.jpg?fit=1000%2C1221&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1221\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"pc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sticker circa 2000 from the first Louisville ARA.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pc-e1523307408689.jpg?fit=640%2C781&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-6685\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pc.jpg?resize=190%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sticker circa 2000 from the first Louisville ARA.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\">When contacted, Keystone ARA gave this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cSome of our chapter\u2019s members have been participating in direct confrontation of anti-choice activists for two decades. These anti-choicers engage in campaigns of violence, harassment, disinformation and obstruction of clinics that provide abortions and women who are seeking medical care. When people commit systemic acts of oppression like this, we feel a duty to practice community self defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Like Sofia, many defenders of reproductive freedom work towards creating child friendly spaces and positive systems of support for women and girls. Social programs, healthy environments of support, and encouragement that continues for the mother after giving birth as well as the baby, not just lip service to \u201cGod\u2019s Miracle\u201d when it is a fetus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been hurt enough by these right-wing anti-abortion centers passing themselves off as abortion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Confronting 'Crisis Pregnancy 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