http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/30/1464823/-2-California-judges-hand-the-misleading-Crisis-Pregnancy-Centers-their-asses-again?detail=email
California Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) continue to legally lose their battle and quest to mislead and dissuade pregnant women from practicing their constitutional rights to abortion. The center lures women in with the word crisis and offers free services like pregnancy tests. Once inside, CPC staff begin their mission using disinformation and flat-out lies to invoke fear. In a California investigation, NARAL reps went out to CPC centers to find out what clients were being told.
Ninety-one percent of centers visited by NARAL doled out misinformation about the effects of abortion on a person’s physical and mental health, saying that having an abortion would increase the risk of breast cancer, infertility, miscarriage, and/or depression that results in suicide.
A new California law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) in October will require that CPCs and their ilk give a public notice of access to abortion and birth control services, along with their own services. The law called The California Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency (FACT), or AB 775, is set to go into effect the first of the year. CPC claims the new law violates their right to freedom of speech, assembly and religion. According to Nicole Knight Shine with RH Reality Check, two federal judges disagree and denied CPC their quest to block the Reproductive FACT Law.
Judge Jeffrey S. White in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held that the three CPCs behind one of the suits fell short of the “high standard” required for a temporary injunction, and “failed to demonstrate that they would face irreparable injury.”
Clinics that fail to comply with the Reproductive FACT Law will face civil penalties up to $1,000.
The attorney for CPC, Matthew McReynolds, believes “religious nonprofits should not be forced to advertise for the government if it goes against the organization’s beliefs.”
But a spokeswoman for California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris told RH Reality Check that they “will continue to defend the Reproductive FACT Act to ensure women are able to make informed decisions about their health.”
Assemblywoman Autumn Burke (D-Inglewood), who co-sponsored AB 775, nails it:
“It’s hard to understand how those who claim to care about women find it so threatening to inform them about accessing affordable health care,” Burke told the Sacramento Bee.
Thank you, Assemblywoman Burke. The hypocrisy is abound and it’s good to see the Democratic-led lawmakers in California working diligently to protect a woman’s right to choose what’s best for her own body and future.
there is a list of pro choice orgs that you can donate, volunteer and support in article. the biggest thing that i see as fake is their overzealous claims of concern for fetuses but have less then gnat crap worth of concern for a born baby.
