guttmacher.org | By Joanne Rosen | Sep 2012
CPCs deliberately spread false information about the risks and relative safety of abortion care as well as contraception. This misinformation holds serious public health implications, outlined here by the Guttmacher Institute.
AMA Journal of Ethics | By Amy Bryant and Jonas Swartz
In this paper, Bryant and Schwarz construct an ethical argument against CPCs, particularly on the basis of nonmaleficence, which is the idea that health care providers “do not harm.” Through this analysis, they suggest that there are ways in which CPCs can operate in a more ethical manner and provide suggestions for current providers to help patients be aware of the existence and dangers of CPCs.
nytimes.com | By Kenneth Vogel and Robert Pear | Mar 29, 2019
While many CPCs receive financial support through donations, they are increasingly accessing federal funds to support their organizations. Under the Trump administration, CPCs are now receiving Title X funds. Title X is a grant to support family planning services such as contraceptive care, STI testing, and well-woman care (not including abortion). Under the Trump administration, funds from this grant are allocated to CPCs where people do not have access to safe, effective contraception or accurate information regarding contraception and STI prevention.
huffpost.com | By Caitlin Bancroft | Aug 15, 2013
A NARAL Pro-Choice legal intern, Caitlin Bancroft, went undercover in a CPC to better understand what counseling sessions look like in these clinics. She details her experience of being shamed, given false medical information, and coerced into keeping her pregnancy (which in reality did not exist).
Documentary | Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady | 2010
This documentary, from filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, depicts a corner in Fort Pierce, Florida with a CPC located on one side of the street and an abortion clinic on the other. While the abortion clinic provides abortion care and other reproductive health services, the CPC exclusively functions to convince people considering abortion to continue their pregnancies. This film reveals the inner workings of both offices, documenting anti-choice counselors at the CPC giving pregnant people misinformation and pro-choice counselors at the abortion clinic providing options counseling to patients.
apnews.com | By Sarah Fowler | Aug 25, 2018
This article compares abortion clinics and CPCs, highlighting the differences in the services they provide, their approaches to patient care, and their missions.
Last Week Tonight | John Oliver | 2018
In this segment of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver sheds light on CPCs’ missions to prevent abortions without providing adequate support to pregnant people. He demonstrates CPCs’ deceptive nature through clips of CPC directors expressing their organizations’ missions, namely to convince people not to have abortions.
huffpost.com | By Laura Bassett | Nov 13, 2017
This article provides a brief explanation of what Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are as well as their history in the United States, dating back to the 1960s.
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