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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 09:25 PM Jun 2014

Here's how some pro-choice advocates fought back



http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2014/06/21/abortion-rights-group-protests-counseling-center/11216935/
The Louisville Courier Journal
June 21, 2104
Abortion-rights group protests counseling center

Forty abortion-rights supporters demonstrated against what they called "deceptive tactics" of a counseling center located next to a downtown Louisville abortion clinic Saturday morning.

The protesters were from the Kentucky Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a statewide nonprofit that group president Caitlin Willenbrink said unites people of faith who believe women have the right to control their reproductive health.

"We are here to draw awareness to the practices of crisis pregnancy centers," she said during the hourlong protest at First and Market streets. "We believe that people who may or may not want to have a child deserve to have all their options shared with them in a way that is non-judgmental and non-shaming."

"When a woman comes into a crisis pregnancy center, she may arrive there expecting a free pregnancy test but her receiving those things might be predicated on her getting counseling that draws incorrect connections between abortion and cancer and abortion and mental health issues," she said....

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Here's how some pro-choice advocates fought back (Original Post) theHandpuppet Jun 2014 OP
If the antichoice people had any sort of leg to stand on other than the hatred of women Warpy Jun 2014 #1
Have you ever seen the ads put out by these "crisis pregnancy" centers? theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #2

Warpy

(111,255 posts)
1. If the antichoice people had any sort of leg to stand on other than the hatred of women
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 10:45 PM
Jun 2014

they wouldn't have to tell so many lies.

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
2. Have you ever seen the ads put out by these "crisis pregnancy" centers?
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 11:32 PM
Jun 2014

Talk about deceptive advertising. It really makes my blood boil that they take advantage of so many women at a time when they are the most vulnerable.

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