By Dave Andrusko
It would be almost impossible to select which Blue State hates Pregnancy Help Centers the most. California is certainly near the top but Massachusetts seemingly is hunting PNCs with a passion second to none.
Take this headline from the Boston Globe:
State launches new awareness campaign against anti-abortion centers: Crisis pregnancy centers, or anti-abortion centers, are often unlicensed by the state and provide misleading information to patients, according to the Department of Public Health.
Who, I ask you, would object to a “new awareness campaign”? However, when the saintly work of crisis pregnancy centers (an out-of-date description; they are now Pregnancy Help Centers) is described as needing to have a warning about the “dangers and potential harm,” you know there is little room for a different opinion, let alone nuisance.
Emily Spatz’s lead is “The Healey-Driscoll administration unveiled a public education campaign Monday warning residents about the ‘dangers and potential harm’ of crisis pregnancy centers.” The campaign is said to be the first of its kind in the country.
What will it include, you ask?
The effort will take the form of advertisements on social media, billboards, radio programs, and transit, according to the Department of Public Health (DPH). It is a joint effort between DPH and the Reproductive Equity Now Foundation and is funded by a $1 million investment by the state legislature.
And certainly, no less an effort will do. After all, “Critics of the centers say they use deceptive advertising and mislead people about reproductive health options, often pressuring people to avoid abortions.” The remainder of the article is filled with vituperative language with a couple of paragraphs of rebuttal.
Par for the course.
John L. Micek hammers the pregnancy help centers with piece that ran under the headline “This is the big abortion rights issue you’re not hearing about.”
The opening paragraph sets the table for an opinion piece that carves up PHCs.
If the battle over abortion rights is one of the key issues of the 2024 election — and it is — then the fight to contain crisis pregnancy centers is its second front.
Abortion rights advocates say the facilities, which they describe as “anti-abortion centers,” use mountains of misinformation to terrify and intimidate the most desperate of women into not going through with the procedure.
“Mountains of misinformation to terrify and intimidate the most desperate of women into not going through with the procedure.” Who could possibly be on the side of such wretched people?
We run something about Pregnancy Help Centers four times a week. Why? Because all the allegations the pro-aborts toss at us apply not to PHCs but to the abortion industry.
They are the ones who cash in when a woman aborts her baby.
They are ones who don’t tell them that even when their unborn babies are just starting their developmental journey, they have recognizable features—fingers, toes, and a heartbeat, for starters.
They are the one who don’t tell women that when their unborn babies are aborted later in pregnancy, they are capable of experiencing unimaginable pain.
They are the ones that withhold information about alternatives, about possible complications, and about how a woman may come to deeply regret her decision to take her child’s life.
The abortion group Reproductive Equity Now is a co-equal partner with Massachusetts’ officialdom. “Anti-abortion centers are the foot soldiers of the anti-abortion movement,” sneers Rebecca Hart Holder.
If only she knew how true that is.