According to the Guttmacher Institute there are three times more crises pregnancy centers (CPC) than there are abortion providers.  What is so alarming about that?  These CPC’s are fake abortion clinics set up by anti-abortion extremists to deceive people seeking abortions into not having them.  This dangerous masquerade goes on daily all over the U.S. while these centers take in tens of millions of state and federal government dollars.  YOU – the taxpayer – are paying for it.

There is no tactic too despicable for them to engage in to deceive and/or confuse anyone coming through their doors.  There is no lie too heinous for them to tell a patient seeking an abortion who mistakenly enters their facility.   And  YOU – the taxpayer – are paying for it.

They set up their CPC next to or very close to a legitimate abortion clinic hoping a person will mistakenly enter their facility.  They deliberately choose names for their CPC which will trick a person seeking an abortion to believe it is an abortion clinic and advertise in the phonebook with that name.  And  YOU – the taxpayer – are paying for it.

Once the mistaken patient is inside the CPC, they may be confronted with delaying tactics.  If that patient can be delayed long enough, they may not be able to legally get the abortion.   That patient will most certainly be pressured by an avalanche of lies and misinformation.  Examples: getting an abortion will cause cancer, rob you of the ability to have more children or even cause death.. That patient will likely be coerced into having an unnecessary ultrasound, then show it and guilt the patient with the heinous idea that having an abortion will be killing a baby. And YOU – the taxpayer – are paying for it.

Because many (CPC’s) are not even medical facilities, there are no uniform licensing requirements.  Unsurprisingly most are religiously affiliated – a blatant affront to the separation of church and state.  Under the guise of “pregnancy counseling”, they deceive people into believing  they actually provide care when, in fact, they do not.  They are a part of an anti-abortion culture that perpetuates violence against patients and providers.  Additionally, CPC’s drain on the available tax dollars has caused comprehensive healthcare clinics to scale back their services.  The tax dollars are going to the “fake” clinics.  The result: there might not be money for healthcare you may need.  Nonetheless YOU – the taxpayer – are paying for it.

TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE SPENT EVERY YEAR ON “FAKE” ABORTION CLINICS and YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT.  You are paying for all the lies and deceit;  for all the violence against patients and providers; for all the horrible waste of taxpayer dollars that could be spent for healthcare for the hundreds of thousands who don’t have any.