I can understand the prolife side of things, even if personally and politically I disagree with it (I’m prochoice) and I feel that most of the prolifers really are tryign to help women choose to give birth, but I abhor the way that they sometimes do it, through intimidation, fear, and lies. There is a crisis pregnancy center down the street that one day I went into because they advertised that they provided birth control options and were a medical clinic. I discovered that they had no medical license, although one woman claimed to be a nurse (I have doubts with the way she spoke in non-medical terms about medicine and science, and also her lack of understanding for how one method of BC worked and why) and then proceeded to “reel” me in to her way of thinking, trying to be understanding and talk the way I did (once she gauged my views) offered me several phamphlets on BC options ( in a manner that suggested that I would find nonbias medical fact about the BC) When I read them later I was absolutely disgusted at the absolute lies that were told and I later returned and let them be aware of my dissatisfaction of their methods to promote an agenda.
I have absolutely no problem with prolfie centers that set up to help provide for women that want to give birth but may not have the financial means to, or that help place children for adoption. I have no problem if they are against BC or abortion and do not offer that service. I DO have a problem when they confuse, lie and trick women into thinking that they are a medical facility that can give them all their options in nonbias educational manner, and then hound them into their ideology. You need to resort to lies and trickery to be prolife and believe that abortion should not be legal.
I was glad when I heard in Baltimore that they passed a law that stated that all CPCs must plainly list their services for people to see and what they do not do. Prolifers however saw this as an infringement of their rights, that they somehow had the right to lie and trick women into walking into their doors under false pretenses. They shout that clinics that provide abortions have to plainly list all medical services and a whole list of other criteria to make it safe for women (as a medical facility it is already under regulation of the medical community and laws) and to provide women with unbias facts, so why not these CPCs? By all means let them operate helping women choose birth, but hold them accountable when they lie to falsely trick and coerce women to “choose” It would be abhorant if a prochoice tricked a woman to have an abortion under false pretenses, why not the reverse?
