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Action Alert: Stop Deceptive Anti-Choice Ads
CPCs
regularly place themselves in the "abortion services" category in
the Yellow Pages, SuperPages.com, Google, etc. NARAL Pro-Choice America is leading a
campaign to fight this kind of false advertising.
Anti-choice "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs) harass, humiliate,
and scare women to stop them from choosing abortion. Now, CPCs are
using popular online search directories to mislead women about their
services. Sign our letter asking YellowPages.com and SuperPages.com to
remove the deceptive ads.
CPC Regulation Bills and Limited Service Disclaimers
We will be posting future efforts to ensure women are informed about their reproductive options and the centers they visit as they form. Advocates in Greensboro, NC are beginning work on a campaign similar to the one in Maryland. If you are local to the NC Triad area, contact us to get involved.
HB 2837 and SB 6452 ["Legislation
Concerning Limited Service Pregnancy Centers"] protect women’s health
by improving accuracy, transparency and privacy at limited service
pregnancy centers.
The legislation:
· Requires a limited service pregnancy center to disclose
to a person seeking services that the center does not provide service
or referrals for abortion or comprehensive birth control and that they
do not provide medical care for pregnant women.
· Requires the centers to protect the privacy of health care information collected from persons seeking services.
· Requires limited service pregnancy centers to provide the tested person pregnancy test results immediately.
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Protects consumer health by requiring that all reproductive health
information provided to consumers be medically accurate.
Women facing a possible pregnancy deserve transparency, privacy, and accurate health information.
Tell Campus Papers to Pull Deceptive Anti-Choice Advertising
A number of campus papers have taken the right step in rejecting
these "advertising supplements" that are nothing more than "12-page
tasteless booklets of disinformation." Ads have been accepted at Stony
Brook University, Marquette University, and University of
Wisconsin-Madison, -River Falls, -Whitewater, -Eau Claire, -La Crosse,
- Green Bay, and -Milwaukee.
Tell the editors of campus newspapers who have accepted these ads to
insist on truth in advertising and stop running HLA ads that lie to and
shame students.
Then click here to tell Congress to pass federal truth-in-advertising legislation and pull funding from deceptive Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Get involved with Change.org here.
Can You Spot the CPC?
Protecting and Improving Maternity and Neo-Natal Health Care
A March 12, 2010 report by Amnesty International sheds more light on the state of pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn care in the United States. According to the report, Deadly Delivery: THE MATERNAL HEALTH CARE CRISIS IN THE USA, the United States "spends more than any other country on health care, and more on
maternal health than any other type of hospital care. Despite this,
women in the USA have a higher risk of dying of pregnancy-related
complications than those in 40 other countries." Though the United States is the richest country in the world, 2-3 women die each day in childbirth complications. Women of color at heightened risk for complications due to financial and social barriers.
Women's health care is limited on multiple fronts. From barriers to contraception and abortion to the lack of financial assistance to women who choose alternate locations for their births, the term "choice" doesn't even begin to describe what women have in this country. The Amnesty report is yet another call to action. The health care debate cannot continue with women's issues left on the sidelines or bargained away for some moderate reforms.
Petition to Repeal the Hyde Amendment
For nearly 35 years, women in this country have had
the right to obtain safe, legal abortion care. However, bans on
Medicaid coverage for abortion have taken away the ability of
low-income women to exercise this right. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment
has prohibited federal Medicaid funding for abortion in almost all
circumstances.
The Hyde Amendment is fundamentally unfair:
• Medicaid is the government-sponsored health insurance program for
low-income people. The program ensures that people are not denied
health care simply because they cannot afford it. The Hyde Amendment
undercuts this guarantee, denying coverage if the care a woman needs is
an abortion.
• The Hyde Amendment denies women access to a medical service simply
because they are poor. Too often, low-income women are forced to use
money meant for rent, utility bills, and food to pay for an abortion.
• Due to racial inequalities and the racial distribution of poverty,
women of color and immigrant women disproportionately rely on Medicaid
for their health insurance. Therefore, the Hyde Amendment especially
burdens women of color and immigrant women.
Defend Abortion Providers Against Violence and Harassment
 Since the assassination of Dr. Tiller last May, Dr. Leroy Carhart of Nebraska has courageously stepped up to the plate in providing women and their families safe, compassionate later-term abortion care. In response, Dr. Carhart is facing the same violent opposition from the very groups that inspired his late mentor's assassination. Pro-choice advocates from all over the country are mobilizing to ensure his clinic stays open.
Women need access to abortion, regardless of how late in pregnancy; we cannot fathom all the reasons why this right is necessary, and the moment we start restricting is the moment women's reproductive autonomy is further undermined.
Join the mobilization to defend Dr. Carhart, his staff, his patients, and his clinic from the extremist forces that are striving for the same fate that was handed to Dr. George Tiller last May. Connect with NOW, NARAL, Feminist Majority, or a host of other grassroots groups via Facebook.
"Where has the Other News gone?"
We have relocated all non-organization related news stories to our Facebook page.
Follow us there to continue receiving reproductive health-related news links.
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Host a monthly Vigil for Choice outside your local crisis pregnancy center!
Contact us for more information.
Support Dollars4Choice!
You don't have to have hundreds in the bank to support our cause!
As a small, grassroots organization, we want you to know your financial support can be small and grassroots too. We're asking supporters to send a donation of $ 5 or more via Paypal as part of our Dollars4Choice campaign.
Five dollars can pay for a week of advertising with Google Adwords, 24 full color pamphlets/fliers for distribution to resource centers, a month of web hosting, or the materials to make protest signs. Any size donation is sure to help us continue expanding awareness of CPCs and keep advocating for reproductive justice.
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