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The abortion industry still sees pregnancy help centers as a threat

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The abortion industry still sees pregnancy help centers as a threat

(Pregnancy Help News) The opponents of pregnancy help must be getting a little nervous. Despite the statistics on the increase of abortions since Roe was overturned, the pro-abortion voices want more, and they want pregnancy centers out of the way.

Since the beginning of the summer season AbortionFinder.org through its X account has been on a mission to disparage the pregnancy help movement with an online anti-pregnancy help campaign.

The abortion activist group points women to abortion providers and is committed to posting negative opinions about pregnancy centers, claiming things such as centers “spread(ing) disinformation and cause real, lasting harm to real people. Delayed care. Emotional trauma. Life-threatening consequences.”

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The AbortionFinder X posts began June 22 with a five-part video series, “Exposing Fake Clinics,” to attack pregnancy help by assuming the only real help for pregnant women is an abortion.

Among the false claims made in the posts:

"Crisis pregnancy centers" exist to stop people from getting abortions, birth control, real sex education, and honest information about their sexual health.”

CPCs are designed to trick you. Professional websites, exam rooms, staff in white coats — and a goal of blocking your access to abortion and birth control.

"Crisis pregnancy centers" exist to manipulate abortion seekers. They lure pregnant people in with the promise of free services and then use scare tactics and lies to pressure them to STAY pregnant.

The first post in the series started out with “How can you avoid fake clinics? Know the red flags.”

The woman in the video sets the scene by saying pregnancy centers give the false appearance of a medical facility, and how some “even have ultrasound machines,” and then warns, “They are traps.”

The woman tells viewers that these “scary” pregnancy centers are outnumbering abortions clinics by three times.

“The bad news is, there are a lot of them,” she states.

Yes, there are. In fact, pregnancy help centers do outnumber abortion facilities. The post does [sic] was accurate on that one point.

That the well-funded abortion industry is closing brick-and-mortar sites amid the surge of chemical abortion and its all but unregulated status meaning anyone can get abortion drugs without an in-person visit to an abortion provider speaks to the industry’s focus on abortion provision and not actual healthcare services.

But it sure sounds like the pro-abortion side is a little nervous about life-affirming alternative care, doesn’t it? Therefore, they must go on the attack.

While AbortionFinder is out to spew lies about pregnancy help on its way to promote abortion, there is another site that shares the truthPregnancyCenterTruth.com.

The website addresses the various claims made by abortion advocacy groups, such as that pregnancy help medical clinics are unlicensed, they have insufficient oversight or accountability, centers rely on deception, they provide no medical, and frighten patients with myths about abortion, among other things, responding with the truth of pregnancy help.

In that first post in its five-part series, the AbortionFinder mouthpiece runs down supposed “red flags” so women can spot these “fake clinics,” by urging the viewer to be skeptical about free services and to be wary of terms like pre-abortion counseling, Abortion Pill Reversal, and abortion healing.

“None of these are real medical services,” she states.

That skewed opinion aside, PregnancyCenterTruth.com explains that women need all the information necessary before committing to an abortion:

“Women should have access to medical information regarding all risks associated with a procedure, no matter what that procedure might be. It is absolutely crucial to ensuring informed consent. Pregnancy centers rely on scientific studies about the short and long-term effects of abortion in order to ensure that clients are empowered with facts before making a life-altering decision.”

Another last “red flag “on the X post is that there are no birth control pills or abortions offered at pregnancy centers.

It has been shown in research that women who use birth control pills are still likely to become pregnant and have an abortion. Guttmacher Institute, the pro-abortion research group formerly affiliated with Planned Parenthood, has conducted research finding that more than half of women having abortions were using contraceptives like the pill.

Day two of the AbortionFinder posts goes over “fake clinic tactics” and tries to debunk information provided by pregnancy centers, such as risks and safety and the option for Abortion Pill Reversal.

The woman in the video attempts to create doubt in the use of progesterone to reverse the process of the abortion pill after the first abortion pill is ingested.

Conversely, a page on the Abortion Pill Reversal website is dedicated to the testimonials of the lives saved through this process, proving APR has been successful. To date, more than 8,000 lives have been saved thanks to APR.

Day three criticizes funding related to pregnancy centers.

The woman claims the funds are “funneled away from programs that are actually dedicated to public health," listing the Title X Family Planning Program and Covid Relief dollars. She later claims much of the money given to pregnancy help is “untraceable.”

The truth is that there is extraordinarily little funding from a federal level that goes to any pregnancy centers and only 11 states offer Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Ninety percent of funding for pregnancy centers comes from charitable donations.

On the other hand, “taxpayer funding in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements hit $832 million, nearly $2.3 million per day,” for Planned Parenthood as of the abortion giant’s most recent annual report, “an increase of $39.8 million from the previous report and representing 39% of Planned Parenthood’s overall revenue.”

Those stats are courtesy of Charlotte Lozier Institute. Additionally, “Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding has increased by 50% since 2014.”

Day four’s post in the five-part series is mysteriously no longer visible on the site.

But, by day five, the woman was telling listeners to “fight back” and contact lawmakers about the funding of pregnancy centers. She also notes that these centers are “dangerous” because “people don’t know they exist.”

All of these claims designed to denigrate pregnancy help and promote abortion aside, more and more women are finding pregnancy centers for life-affirming help.

This is why websites like AbortionFinder are trying so desperately to destroy the image of pregnancy help. Not every woman truly desires an abortion. They desire assistance. Women are finding hope and healing in pregnancy help centers.

Websites like OptionLine.org assist women who are seeking such help.

Scrolling the X site for the AbortionFinder group one will see nothing but ugliness.

A June 25 post defines a pregnancy center as “a dangerous organization with a hidden agenda to lure in and then pressure into not having an abortion.”

The reality is the pregnancy help movement has been busy and successful at letting their services speak for themselves.

AbortionFinder’s series on X was a feeble attempt to turn women away from pregnancy help. Upon reviewing the posts, the “likes” and sharing were minimal.

The creators of this content are living on the lie that every woman who approaches an abortion provider wants to end the life of her baby.

The head of the largest network of pregnancy help organization in the U.S. and the world weighed in on the abortion activist group’s campaign to defame life-affirming alternatives to abortion.

“The sad thing about mixing so many lies in with intentionally half-truths is that women who are genuinely undecided about their unintended pregnancy will then be sold an abortion they don't really want,” said Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International. “Abortion advocates are willing to say anything to advocate for the abortion industry at the expense of women who deserve better.”

“Pregnancy help centers don't profit from a woman's decision,” Godsey added, “making them safe places to talk through all the options."

Editor's note: Heartbeat International manages Option Line, the Abortion Pill Rescue® Network (APRN), and Pregnancy Help News. Heartbeat is the subject of two lawsuits brought by state AGs concerning sharing information about Abortion Pill Reversal.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at Pregnancy Help News and is reprinted here with permission.

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