Discussion for article #222298
There is a large percentage of our population that do not think abortions should be done. They come from all walks of life, all races, and religious beliefs, including atheists like myself. To some of those people, finding ways to decrease the number of abortions performed makes sense…it does not matter that the procedure is legal, what matters to them is that abortion is, within their belief system, an immoral act. The people that set up these alternative clinics are acting on their beliefs in a legal manner.
Deceptive advertising, while it may not be criminal, is not legal. A PR campaign to argue against having an abortion would certainly be legal (though any individual media organ is free to reject such ads), but deceptive ads are simply not legal.
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This is one of those issues where evidence is not the means of discovering or understanding truth, but a football to be run as far downfield as one can go. Pro punishment Team Conservative knows exactly what it’s doing: trying to punish women quietly by throwing up Japanese inspections.
Nice try, but these are not alternative “clinics.”
A store-front run by a pack of psychos who get off on slut-shaming, lying to and humiliating vulnerable women who are drawn in by deliberately misleading advertising while offering no medical services and observing no HIPAA guidelines is not a clinic.
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I have no problem with these ‘pregnancy centers,’ as long as they don’t lie to consumers. They need to state that they provide no abortion services and will not refer women to providers that offer abortion. They either must stop disseminating misinformation regarding health issues and abortion (like abortion causes breast cancer or infertility), or they must add a disclaimer that scientific evidence doesn’t support their claims. If they have a religious affiliation, they should be compelled to make that clear in their advertisements.
They should be compelled to be truthful or be shut down. They must tell women that their mission is not to provide all available information, so women can make the best choice for themselves. They need to be honest and advertise that their goal is to limit women’s choices. It would be particularly helpful to let women know the statistics on how pregnancy and childbirth will affect their futures. They need to tell women that it’s far more dangerous to give birth than to terminate a pregnancy.
They shouldn’t be allowed to lie like pieces of cr@p in order to get what they want.
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Ah, fundamentalism. Beliefs and believers from hell.
God is on our side, not yours.