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glitter-femin1sts:

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL.

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stfuprolife:

spiralofbees:

prolongedeyecontact:

eternalhomeinheaven:

Abolitionist Society of Oklahoma: Abolitionist Posters on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/24165071

All I’m seeing are lies, libel, and false martyrdom. Add in some co-opting of slavery abolition and some cissexism and I know I’m looking at an AHA poster.

Planned Parenthood is staffed by actual doctors, with actual medical training, and they provide actual medical services:

Women’s Health [people other than “women” can and do utilize these services]

Includes:

• birth control
• emergency contraception
• checkups for reproductive and sexual health problems
• gynecological exams
• pregnancy tests and pre-natal care
• routine physical exams

Men’s Health [people other than “men” can and do utilize these services]

Includes:

• checkups for reproductive or sexual health problems
• colon cancer screening 
• erectile dysfunction services, including education, exams, treatment, and referral 
• jock itch exam and treatment 
• male infertility screening and referral 
• premature ejaculation services, including education, exams, treatment, and referral 
• routine physical exams 
• testicular cancer screenings 
• prostate cancer screenings 
• urinary tract infections testing and treatment 
• vasectomy

General Health Care

Includes:

• anemia testing 
• cholesterol screening 
• diabetes screening
• physical exams, including for employment and sports
• flu vaccines
• help with quitting smoking
• high blood pressure screening
• tetanus vaccines
• thyroid screening
• STD testing, treatment, and vaccines

In addition:

• Planned Parenthood health centers focus on prevention: 76 percent of our clients receive services to prevent unintended pregnancy.
• Planned Parenthood services help prevent more than 584,000 unintended pregnancies each year.
• Planned Parenthood provides nearly 770,000 Pap tests and nearly750,000 breast exams each year, critical services in detecting cancer.
• Planned Parenthood provides more than four million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
• Three percent of all Planned Parenthood health services are abortion services.
• Planned Parenthood affiliates provide educational programs to more than1.1 million young people and adults each year.

Also see this pdf.

CPCs, on the other hand, are verifiably deceptive, manipulative, and downright despicable. And they’re using our tax dollars to spread their lies.

• NARAL report on CPCs in MA
• Undercover investigation in NC
• “False and Misleading Health Information Provided by Federally Funded
• Pregnancy Resource Centers” (Waxman Report).
• NARAL: The Truth About Crisis Pregnancy Centers
• NARAL: Unmasking Fake Clinics
• Exposing Anti_Choice Abortion Clinics (Alternet)
• CPCs Sue For Right To Mislead
• NARAL Maryland CPC Investigation
• CPC Watch
• NAF Crisis Pregnancy Center Info
• History of CPCs
• “AIDS goes through a condom like rice through a tennis racket.” : Stop CPC Lies
• Christian Crisis Pregnancy Clinics Exposed
• Deception used in counseling women against abortion
• The Truth is Better Advice
• What happens when CPCs are unregulated in the city?
• Shotgun Adoption
• What Every Woman Should Know

Then, of course, there is this priceless video:

Please visit http://www.naralva.org/assets/files/cpcfactsheet.pdf to read more about this video.

Here’s some more links provided from a post by Bebinn:

 Crisis pregnancy centers intentionally advertise themselves to confuse people looking for answers and clinics. They lie about fetal development, about abortion procedures, about the risks of abortion (more here), about where to get an abortion, and about the services they provide. They harass, stalk, and expose their victims, try to convert them, try to convince them to stay with their abusive husbands, and practice coercive adoption.

 George W. Bush and allies funneled millions to dollars in grants to these centers - over $30 million, in fact (PDF).

Then there was the fun time they put out an APB on a pregnant woman attempting to go to Planned Parenthood.

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So forgive me if I hope Planned Parenthood never attempts to embody the “virtues” or “services” of CPCs. That’s not the kind of “help” anyone wants, needs, or deserves.

I went to a panel recently on reproductive rights. One of the women on the panel was an abortion provider. She told us a story about a woman who came to her, about 7 weeks pregnant. The woman had already gone to a CPC for a pregnancy test, but still decided she wanted an abortion.

She ended up getting an ultrasound and wanting to see it. When the provider showed her, she asked, “But where are the arms and legs?”

The provider told her that at 6-7 weeks, you’re basically just going to see a splotch. She responded that the CPC had shown her her ultrasound, and it had arms and legs.

The CPC had literally shown her someone else’s ultrasound to convince her she was further along and that the fetus was further along in development. They told her it was her baby, when in fact it was no such thing.

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Brilliant commentary from the two above. 

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glitter-femin1sts:

aaaaand there it is.

so to people who say “OH PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S SERVICES ARE 99 PERCENT ABORTION”

you are wrong. 

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