Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon: ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers Advance the Anti-Abortion Agenda by Using Deceptive and Coercive Tactics and Medical Disinformation’

‘[They] target low income people facing unintended pregnancies to prevent them from accessing abortion’

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SCANLON: “These crisis pregnancy centers are a well-funded arm of the anti-abortion movement that advances their agenda by using deceptive and coercive tactics and medical disinformation to target low income people facing unintended pregnancies to prevent them from accessing abortion and contraception. These crisis pregnancy centers, which actually outnumber abortion clinics, often misleadingly present themselves as providing medical services when they're not licensed to do so, and therefore are not bound by the privacy laws that govern medical providers. And in fact, these anti-abortion facilities collect sensitive medical and personal information and then share it with anti-abortion organizations. These crisis pregnancy centers face limited public accountability, despite the fact that they are increasingly siphoning off public funds from the TANF welfare programs which are supposed to serve low income women and families.”

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