TX Fake Abortion Clinics Lie To Undercover Reporters

June 29, 2022 Christianists, Republicans

Across the U.S., more than 2,500 crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) provide free services and counseling for women struggling with unplanned pregnancies. They outnumber abortion clinics 3 to 1 nationwide, and as some states shutter clinics after Roe’s reversal, that ratio will grow.

But when two NBC News producers visited state-funded CPCs in Texas to ask for counseling, counselors told them that abortions caused mental illness and implied abortions could also cause cancer and infertility.

The centers, which are often faith-based, frequently get funding from religious groups and individual donors, but many also depend partly on taxpayer dollars.

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Is it dangerous to be a women in Texas ?The state has one of the world’s worst maternal mortality rates +highest state rate of repeat teen pregnancies + when two of our producers visited state-funded crisis pregnancy centers info they were given was untrue https://t.co/Wl0BkTS7Co

— Cynthia McFadden (@CynthiaMcFadden) June 29, 2022