Fearmongering, feminists, and "fake clinics"

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

More on the assault against pregnancy resource centers comes from NYC, abortion capital USA. Two female NYC City Council members are trying to force pro-life pregnancy centers to post signage stating what services they do NOT provide. Try this with any other business or social service, and you'd probably be viewed as some sort of nut. (Sorry, we do not serve sushi at this Mexican restaurant. Sorry, we do not sell Nikes in this Adidas store.) But when it comes to the evil, nasty centers that offer women free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, adoption referrals, maternity housing and baby clothes... well, we must put a stop to those sorts of heinous places immediately.

As I pointed out in a previous post, pro-aborts balk when pro-lifers claim women can be misled by the abortion industry, claiming women who go to abortion mills are there of their own volition (in reality, over 60% were coerced in some way) and they are "empowered." However, when it comes to CPCs, who do not charge for their services, pro-aborts engage in all sorts of emotional hand-wringing about their "deceit" of women. As I said before, you can't have it both ways. You cannot say a woman is clear-headed when entering an abortion mill and confused when she is entering a CPC.

A recent NY Times article seems to promote this exact view, however:

They [CPCs] do not, however, provide a full range of alternatives (like the morning-after pill) or condone all choices. To the contrary, they oppose abortion, and their staff members try their hardest to talk women out of having one, even if that means, according to Planned Parenthood of NYC, showing them graphic images and telling them that “God will never forgive you.”

The accusation about God not forgiving women is really horrid. It's also completely untrue. Note that no CPC client was quoted here - but Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider worldwide. I guess if someone's hedging in on your profits (from killing unborn children), you have to make up bogus "facts" and feed them to pro-abort "journalists" who will regurgitate them like mindless parrots. Too bad those feminist journalists never report on the women actually harmed and killed by the abortion industry...

Also from the NYT article:

A yearlong investigation by Naral Pro-Choice NY found that crisis pregnancy centers — in addition to the E.M.C. centers, there are at least four others in the city — feed women information that has been medically refuted....

NARAL? Really? I suppose a stalwart of the abortion industry wouldn't have any sort of vested interest in the demise of CPCs, now would they?

Partly in response to findings in that report, Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, and Councilwoman Jessica S. Lappin, Democrat of Manhattan, are proposing legislation that would require the stance of these crisis pregnancy centers to be clear to all women who visit them — either intentionally, or by accident while seeking a Planned Parenthood clinic across the street, or because the word “abortion” loomed much larger to them on that subway sign than the word “alternative.”

Well, perhaps a NEON SIGN advertising "No abortions here!" would please these people. Planned Parenthood doesn't do pro-life counseling. As Chris Slattery, president of a CPC chain stated so well, “Why don’t we have on Planned Parenthood’s door ‘No pro-life counseling, only pro-abortion counseling’ — O.K.? Let’s just have a level playing field.” And by the way, isn't the name "Planned Parenthood" a little misleading? I mean, they abort children. That's not exactly planning parenthood, it's snuffing it out.

Further:

To compensate for ambiguities like unclear signage at the centers, the bill, set to be announced on Tuesday, would require, among other things, signs at the entrance and in the waiting rooms to inform women that the center does not provide abortions or contraceptives approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and that it does not provide referrals for those options, either. Signage would also need to make it clear if no licensed medical professional is on the staff.

Funny how the article's pro-abortion, pro-contraception author felt the need to qualify contraceptives "approved by the FDA," as if those who do not use contraception are foolish and anti-science. Tell that to the World Health Organization...

And as I've also stated before, many CPCs DO have licensed medical professionals on staff. Just a thought: maybe we should have Planned Parenthood posting "No licensed social workers on staff; no actual adoption counselors. Only salespeople who are trained to sell abortion."

All of this really begs the question: why attack CPCs? If these organizations help women with basic needs so they can feel more able to continue their pregnancies, why are feminists and pro-"choicers" so against them? What are they so afraid of? And whose payroll are they on?