While state legislatures across the country are constantly passing medically-unnecessary, politically-motivated laws to try to force reproductive health centers to close, crisis pregnancy centers are largely unregulated. It’s time to require fake clinics to abide by real standards and policies that will protect women and pregnant people.
Tag: Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Fake Clinics
Warning Communities About Fake Clinics, One Sidewalk at a Time
Armed with chalk, Southwestern Law School students like Haley Pollock are drawing attention to the dangers of crisis pregnancy centers in their community—literally.
Reproductive Rights Activists Aren’t Backing Down After NIFLA
Activists took to the streets Tuesday in protest of the Supreme Court’s ruling in NIFLA v. Becerra, which effectively gave the often religiously-affiliated anti-abortion fake clinics permission to continue manipulating and deceiving patients.
The Supreme Court Stood with Fake Clinics—But the Fight for Facts Goes On
Today, the Supreme Court handed CPCs a license to manipulate, deceive and ultimately endanger the lives of women.
The Supreme Court Should #EndTheLies
The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments this month in a case which could determine the future of fake clinics and their ability to spread misinformation to patients nationwide. In response, hundreds of activists gathered in D.C. to demand that so-called Crisis Pregnancy Centers #EndTheLies.
The Constitutionality of Anti-Abortion License Plates is Up for Debate
Update: On Thursday, June 19, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 majority decision that specialty license plates count as “government speech” and therefore are not protected by the First […]
NEWSFLASH: California Goes After Crisis Pregnancy Centers
It looks like crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) may not be able to act with total impunity anymore. At least not in California if state lawmakers finish work on a disclosure […]
We Heart: The Truth About Crisis Pregnancy Centers
NARAL sent two comedians to UC Berkeley to see just how much students knew about CPCs. The results are both hilarious and exasperating.
The Future of Texas Women’s Health? For Rick Perry, It’s CPCs
Last Tuesday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry stopped by to lend a little good-old-boy masculinity to the opening of a branch of Houston’s The Source For Women, a crisis pregnancy center […]
Virginia Promotes CPCs, Along with Anti-Abortion Agenda
Feminists across the country heralded the defeat of Virginia’s transvaginal ultrasound bill last February as one of the major victories in the War on Women. But while its amended law, which […]