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theHandpuppet

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Sat Jun 28, 2014, 09:24 PM Jun 2014

Abortion-rights group protests counseling center (Kentucky)

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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JustAnotherGen

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Sun Jun 29, 2014, 07:54 AM
Jun 2014

I know I saw a thread suggesting Pro Choice activists get in front of Churches but this idea seems better. I wonder if a comprehensive list of these types of centers exist?

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