This week a satirical video went viral that slammed crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), claiming they deceived women and were run by con-artists. Major online media outlets praised the vulgar video operating headlines including, “Samantha Bee Exposes Merely Exactly how Terrifying Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are,” and “Samantha Bee explores the shocking lies of anti-abortion ‘crisis pregnancy centers’”.
The problem along with praising this “exposé”? The skit is riddled along with lies regarding these pro-life pregnancy centers, and serves as propaganda for the National Abortion Federation (NAF) whose president is prominently featured in the video.
From claiming CPCs mask themselves as fake abortion clinics and falsify test results to trick women in to having their babies to featuring a mother that announces that if she could do it all over again she would certainly have actually aborted her son, the video is a galling window in to the rationale and mindset of abortion activists.
Here are Merely a few of the several falsehoods perpetuated regarding crisis pregnancy centers by the video, and why their assertions are so deadly wrong.
1. The tactics of crisis pregnancy centers are misleading and harmful to women.
The video claims that using names such as “Pregnancy Care Clinic,” “Birthright International,” and “Pregnancy Resources” is deceitful to women. Yet, by their pretty nature, CPCs are centers that recommendations women make decisions regarding their pregnancy. A name that points to this facet is not deceptive however in truth descriptive. Instead, is it not grossly misleading to use names such as “Planned Parenthood” to describe an organization whose primary function is to strip a woman of her motherhood?
Later in the video, NAF President and CEO Vicki Saporta appears to criticize CPCs for giving away free pregnancy examinations and ultrasounds. This one is astounding to me. Exactly how can easily providing a woman along with much more post to make her decision (i.e. pregnancy examinations and ultrasounds) be misleading? Isn’t this the most empowering thing we can easily do for women? If a pregnant woman is actually Merely carrying a blob of tissue, exactly what are they so afraid that the ultrasound will certainly reveal?
Unlike the abortion industry that continually fights versus laws requiring clinics to treat women as equal human beings and be offered all medical information pertinent to a potential abortion, CPCs treat women as the tough and capable people they are. CPCs entrust women along with ALL the facts they should make a decision for themselves and their child.
2. Crisis pregnancy centers falsify medical results to trick women in to keeping their babies.
Yes, they actually made this claim. The president of NAF claims that CPCs give false medical results, pretending that a woman is further along in her pregnancy compared to she actually is to trick her in to keeping her baby. Not only is this a ridiculous accusation to lob versus all crisis pregnancy centers, however it shows the intellectual dishonesty of Samantha Bee and her followers.
In fact, it is abortion clinics, not CPCs, that hide irrefutable facts regarding fetal development and deny access to sonograms and ultrasound technology to their clients. They fear, and rightfully so, that their clients could not agree along with them that the beating heart and the squirming image they see on the screen is Merely a blob of tissue. The ACLJ’s upcoming documentary “Abortion Inc.” features multiple accounts of women that had abortion clinics lie to them regarding Exactly how produced their baby joined order to convince them to have actually an abortion.
In the debate on life, there is only one adverse deceptively pretending to give the full spectrum of healthiness care services to women. There’s only one adverse treating these women as if they are too weak to handle all of the pertinent post required to make a life or death decision adore abortion. And it’s not crisis pregnancy centers.
3. There are no negative effects to abortions.
In the video, the NAF president boldly asserts that there are no negative effects to abortions, claiming that CPCs manipulate women by telling them of potential harmful consequences to having an abortion.
The effects of abortion on women vary from case to case and person to person. however to pretend as if there has actually never been a single credible study showing a positive correlation between abortion and negative healthiness effects is deceitful and anti-science.
The British Diary of Psychiatry published a peer-reviewed study on the correlation between abortion and side mental health. A study on young women in Brand-new Zealand found similar results. Yet another review of the evidence found that while most studies are methodologically flawed and informed by political agendas, there are correlations between abortion and negative bodily and mental healthiness effects.
For those of us along with friends that have actually had abortions, this shouldn’t be surprising. Thousands of women have actually shared their testimonies of the devastating effects of abortion.
4. Crisis pregnancy centers convince women to preserve their babies and then disappear.
The video prominently features a mother that visited a crisis pregnancy focus thinking it was an abortion clinic and then decided to have actually her baby. She claims that once she delivered her son, the CPC disappeared devoid of a trace. She said that despite the fact that she loves her son, if she had it to do all over again, she would certainly go for to abort her son.
Calloused to the devastating consequences of broadcasting a mother’s testimony that she wants she had aborted her son, the sketch tries to perpetuate the trope that pro-lifers only care regarding the kid in the womb.
Yet, CPCs and the pro-life movement have actually proven time and time again that this is just not true of our movement on the whole. The CPCs I have actually worked along with in my community give licensed counseling services for both mothers and fathers, parenting classes, networks of babysitters, diapers, clothes, and post-partum care. They believe as I do, that to be pro-life means to be pro abundant life for all. They hope to empower women and men to not only Merely have actually their baby, however to be loving and involved mothers and fathers. They recommendations along with task training and task acquisition. They serve the mother and the child, and the father if he is in the picture.
Watching videos adore this and hearing the lies of the abortion industry and their allies makes me angry. The women and men at CPCs that walk alongside mothers and fathers in the midst of crisis must not be vilified however thanked. They are the true feminists, as they celebrate the unique ability of a woman to bear a kid and believe that she is fully capable of handling all the pertinent post about her pregnancy. The abortion agenda claims that abortion is vital for female equality. Yet true feminism, found in the halls of CPCs across the country, proclaims that women are beneficial and equal to men Merely as they are.
But much more compared to anger, I am saddened for those that so ardently and callously scream that abortion is no big deal. Distracted by their rage and political agenda, they miss out on out on the profound goodness inherent in protecting and nurturing Brand-new life. They are unable to experience the joy of strolling alongside a woman in the midst of crisis, and aiding her to see Merely Exactly how beautiful and powerful she actually is.
I believe that several of these “activists” really hope to stand for the underdog, yet their blind devotion to abortion pits them versus the most voiceless members of our society. They are forced to do logical cartwheels and backflips to justify ending the lives of innocent children.
And they can’t stand it. So they mock the volunteers that pour their blood, sweat, and tears to walk alongside women of every socioeconomic class, race, ethnicity, and religion that have actually an unexpected pregnancy.
Life is significant. It has actually purpose and value. And these truths conflict along with the falsehoods upon which the estate of abortion has actually been constructed. And the sound of a small beating heart is all it takes to topple their estate of cards.
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