This new NARAL report about the tactics of CPCs is called Crisis Pregnancy Centers Lie: The Insidious Threat to Reproductive Freedom. It’s an apt title, because once you’re done reading it, you could be forgiven for wondering if anti-choice activists are capable of telling the truth about anything, much less reproductive health care. Every step of the way, these facilities rely on one primary tactic to try to get women not to abort: lying. They lie to get you in the door. They lie when you’re in the room. They lie about the law, and lie about the risks of abortion, and lie about birth control, and lie about abortion providers. It’s probably easier and less time-consuming to make a list of what CPCs don’t lie about. (Their address, perhaps?)

It’s all even more stunning when you remember that these are the folks who like to present themselves as good Christians and their pro-choice opponents as agents of evil. I realize that, in our age of climate change denialism and outrageous—and subsequently shrugged-off—fabrications from Fox News personalities, dishonesty has become the expected norm for the right. It’s exhausting to keep getting outraged over it.

Still, NARAL’s report is an important reminder of how serious this problem is. Something has gone very wrong when so many people are willing to go to such great lengths to deceive women in this way. It becomes even more disturbing when you realize that the lies are all in service of trying to manipulate people into making a decision—having a baby—that has lifelong consequences and therefore should be based on what the woman wants and needs, and not what some strangers who are overly invested in her uterus want her to do.

NARAL’s investigators went undercover in more than ten separate states to create a national picture of what CPCs are and what they do. One common element they found was that the lying begins before a woman even enters the facility. “If women knew that CPCs existed only to scare them out of considering their full range of reproductive health-care options, particularly abortion, they would avoid them entirely,” the report reads.