One about killed a woman by not identifying her pregnancy is ectopic. Many anti abortion folks are convinced that even ectopic pregnancies can be viable.
These places promise things like free pregnancy tests and medical advice to get people in the door.
They really just exist to pressure women into not getting abortions. They will lie through their teeth - all the classics, like suggesting that an abortion makes it impossible to get pregnant again, or that abortion causes cancer - they’ll say anything to prevent an abortion.
They are pretty much completely unregulated, and present themselves as secular non profits.
Seriously, the USA is becoming more and more like Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale
Many “centers” in the US are religious organizations pretending to not pump their own religion: Alcoholics Anonymous, Boy Scouts of America, Salvation Army, Scientology has a bunch of these, too. And Mormons.
Interestingly enough, the Scientology church is the source of a lot of anti-drug propaganda provided in and by public schools in Sweden.
Source in Swedish: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/skolor-koper-droginformation-fran-scientologirorelsen
In my experience, AA is very open about the “higher power” thing and every meeting I have ever been to has also emphasized the flexibility and variety of what that even means to a person. But I would argue there’s absolutely a reason why it’s said that you need to hit your personal rock bottom first. Recovery is a wild experience and you do only reach it when you are so out of ideas as to how to make your own bullshit work anymore. I’m sober today although not through attending AA. But - in retrospect - the whole thing does make logical sense to me and my process looked a lot like the progression of the 12 steps. While I still have criticisms and skepticisms of AA, I wouldn’t consider it to be anywhere in the vicinity of anti-abortion “pregnancy centre” type deceptions.
Religous people “We’re honest hardworking people!”
Proceed to lie and deceive about everything.
In my country, you go to jail if you provide medical care while not being a physician
The same is true here. The point is that they do not provide any medical care.
Ah, but they don’t actually provide any medical services. They just lie and say that they do.
Wish I lived there
If all they do is counseling and give advice, does that count?
In the story I linked, they gave a woman an ultrasound and confirmed to her that it was an intrauterine pregnancy. That seems to be “practicing medicine” to me.
The question is did they actually know that it was ectopic and lied to her (because the religious right is doing a huge push right now to convince people that ectopic pregnancies are somehow survivable), or did they lie to her about the ultrasound, or did they just fuck it up entirely?
All three extremely disturbing, and probably all three happening daily at this evil places.
I know that in the past there have been cult deprogramming communities that were run by some cult-like christian organizations that preyed on those that were at their most vulnerable. Real bottom feeder scum behaviour.
these places are vile and need to all be shut down. Stick to Planned Parenthood if you can.
Evil.
There’s a crisis bus in my town that offers “abortion reversals”
I offer that in my house, results not guaranteed but free admission
Um. More sex?
Pretty sure I heard mamdani was closing them all in new York. Yeah they are everywhere
