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Pro-abortion Sen. Warren escalates her war against Pregnancy Help CentersĀ 

Jul 15, 2022

By Dave Andrusko

It must be a kind of badge of honor among pro-abortion elected officials to be considered the best at harassing pro-lifers. Take Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) who is unloading on Pregnancy Help Centers with a vengeance.

I probably don’t have to even tell you what so enrages Sen. Warren.  It’s alleged ā€œdisinformation.ā€ Writing for National Review Online, John McCormack explains that pro-life charities ā€œcould be shut down under her bill if they ‘mimic Planned Parenthood’s colors’ and engage in other acts of supposed ‘disinformation.ā€™ā€ 

So his headline is no exaggeration: ā€œElizabeth Warren Escalates Her War on Pregnancy Resource Centersā€.

 ā€œThese pro-life charities not only help women in poverty choose life instead of abortion, but they also help women after babies are born — providing clothing, diapers, housing assistance, and more,ā€ McCormack writes. Needless to say, the indispensable work that PHC do with very limited resources doesn’t impress Warren.

Naw, they just need to be shutdown.

ā€œIn Massachusetts right now, those crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by three to one,ā€ an incensed Warren told an NBC affiliate in Boston. ā€œWe need to shut them down here in Massachusetts and we need to shut them down all around the country.ā€

Please note that she wants PHCs shut down ā€œall around the country.ā€ Note also that PHCs outnumber abortion clinics 3-1, which must really stick in her craw.

McCormack quotes from a recent National Review Online editorial:

Under Warren’s bill, [pregnancy center] charities could be fined $100,000 or ā€œ50 percent of the revenues earned by the ultimate parent entityā€ of the charity for violating the act’s ā€œprohibition on disinformationā€ related to abortion. But the legislation itself does not define prohibited speech. Warren’s bill directs the Federal Trade Commission to ā€œpromulgate rules to prohibit a person from advertising with the use of misleading statements related to the provision of abortion services.ā€ Warren’s bill would thus turn the Federal Trade Commission into a national abortion disinformation board. Perhaps the task of determining what counts as a prohibited ā€œmisleadingā€ statement would fall to the recently unemployed Nina Jankowicz for the remainder of the Biden administration. Warren does not seem to have considered who might do this job in a future Republican administration.

We’ll keep an eye out how Sen. Warren’s bill fares. Let’s hope cooler heads (there must be a couple of them among all the pro-abortion Democrats) prevail. 

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