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A CPC in Lincoln, Nebraska (foreground) intentionally located across the street[1] from an abortion clinic (background)

A crisis pregnancy center (CPC), sometimes called a pregnancy resource center (PRC)

anti-abortion groups primarily to persuade pregnant women not to have an abortion.[5][6][7]: 1  In the United States, CPCs that qualify as medical clinics may also provide pregnancy testing, sonograms, and other services,[8] while many others operate without medical licensing under varying degrees of regulation.[9]

CPCs have frequently been found to disseminate

abortion rights, due to deceptive advertising practices that obscure the anti-abortion agenda of CPCs from potential patients seeking abortions.[14][15]

CPCs are often run by Christian groups which adhere to a strictly

Heartbeat International, and Birthright International. As of 2017, there were about 2,300 CPCs in the United States,[17] as compared with 808 abortion clinics.[18] Hundreds more CPCs operate outside of the U.S., including Canada, Latin America, Africa, and Europe.[19][20] These CPCs often are operated or financially supported by the same organizations, and use similar practices as the CPCs in the United States.[21] During the presidency of George W. Bush (2001–2009), CPCs received tens of millions of dollars in federal grants.[22] As of 2015, more than half of the U.S. states helped to fund crisis pregnancy centers either directly and/or through the sale of Choose Life license plates.[23]

Legal and legislative action regarding CPCs has generally attempted to curb

deceptive advertising,[24] targeting those that imply that they offer abortion services by requiring centers to disclose that they do not offer certain services or possess certain qualifications.[25] In 1993, the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) was formed to provide legal advice to CPCs in the U.S.[6][26][27]

Origin

Protest against crisis pregnancy center in Chicago

Catholic carpenter Robert Pearson started the first CPC in Honolulu in 1967 after abortion was legalized in Hawaii. Pearson said that "a woman who wanted to terminate her pregnancy 'has no right to information that will help her kill her baby.'"[28] He formed the Pearson Foundation to help others start their own CPCs, offering detailed instructions for CPC management along with propaganda brochures and images to persuade pregnant women not to get an abortion.[14][29] In 1968, the first network of centers was established by Birthright, in Canada. Alternatives to Abortion, today known as Heartbeat International, was founded in 1971. Christian Action Council founded its first center in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1980. Christian Action Council eventually would become Care Net.[30] The CPC movement began as American Catholic activism, but after the 1973 passage of Roe v. Wade, interest in establishing CPCs widened to include American evangelical Christians.[29]

Activities

While CPCs often look like abortion clinics and are intentionally located near them,[5][31] most are not legally licensed as medical clinics and do not offer medical services.[9] However, CPCs often offer non-medical support, such as free pregnancy tests, pre-natal care, and classes for budgetting and resume building. Some even supply clothing and other supplies.[32]

There is a trend toward CPCs obtaining some form of medical certification, largely to support another recent trend of offering sonograms in an attempt to convince women to carry their pregnancies to term.[33][27][34][35] They may also provide screening for sexually transmitted infections, adoption referrals, religious counseling, financial assistance, prenatal services, child-rearing resources and other services.[33][36][37]

Peer counselors are typically covered by mandated reporting laws with regard to statutory rape, and they are encouraged to ask about the age of the woman and the biological father.

Bible study sessions and peer counseling for women who have recently had abortions.[6]

CPCs have been criticized for misleading advertising, for the dissemination of inaccurate medical information, for religious proselytism, and for subjecting clients to graphic videos.[40][41] The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, an independent abortion-providing agency,[42] said that young women were particularly vulnerable to religiously influenced anti-abortion "Crisis Pregnancy Centres", unregulated by the National Health Service, because many of the women knew less about the healthcare system or did not want to consult their family GP.[43] Additionally, CPCs have been accused of the racial targeting of Black women, as CPCs have focused on what they call "underserved" communities in an attempt to lower the high rates of abortion in communities of color.[28]

Crisis pregnancy centers, along with hospitals and fire and police stations, are designated by state law in Louisiana as

emergency care facilities where parents may surrender custody of newborn infants.[44]

Use of sonograms

Ultrasound scanner

Some CPCs conduct free sonograms as a way to dissuade women from abortion.[5][45][32] Proponents say that women who visit CPCs and see their embryos or fetuses through the use of ultrasound technology tend to decide against abortion, although scientific research suggests mandatory pre-abortion ultrasound has no effect on women's decisions to continue their pregnancy.[46]

Organizations such as Colorado-based

Protestant denomination in the United States, have worked to equip more CPCs with ultrasound machines.[47][48][49]

False medical information

See also: Misinformation related to abortion

CPCs have frequently been found to disseminate false medical information.[11][12] In some cases such information may be based on decades-old studies that have been discredited by more recent research.[16] In others, CPCs may falsely claim to be describing an existing scientific consensus.[12] CPCs' false information is usually about the supposed health risks of abortion, saying, for example, that abortion is much less safe for pregnant women than childbirth when the opposite is true.[10][16][35] In fact, Researchers have found that “the complication rate (of abortions) is less than that associated with wisdom tooth extraction, 7 percent, and tonsillectomies, 9 percent.”[50] The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology characterize the care at these centers as lacking "adherence to medical and ethical practice standards".[51]

For example, CPC staffers commonly assert that the chances of getting breast cancer increase dramatically after abortion,

abortion and breast cancer.[16][31][52]

Another common assertion is that

post-abortion syndrome", post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide, substance abuse, sexual and relationship dysfunction, propensity to child abuse, and other emotional problems.[5][10][16][31][43][55][57][58][59] These “counselors” are often priests or other religious members - not licensed counselors.Post-abortion syndrome" has not been validated as a discrete psychiatric condition and is not recognized by the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, nor the American Public Health Association.[60][61][62][63][64][65]
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists finds no evidence to support an increased likelihood of abuse.[59] In fact, CPCs are known to use disturbing visuals to emotionally manipulate pregnant people under the assumption that they are diagnosing them.[66]

CPCs may also claim that surgical abortion is a dangerous procedure, with a high risk of perforation or infection and death.[5][16][54][57][58][67] In fact, the risk of complications requiring hospitalization after an abortion is about 2 in 1,000 in the US.[68] These alleged risks are also part of the common assertion that abortion can make future childbearing more difficult or dangerous by increasing the risk of infertility, miscarriages, complications, ectopic pregnancy, or fetal health problems.[10][16][55][57][58][59] These claims are not supported by medical data.[58][59]

CPCs have also been found to disseminate misinformation about birth control methods, in particular the idea that contraception and condoms do not work or have harmful effects.[16][31][67]

False information about pregnancy and the female body

better source needed] CPCs may also misinform women about their stage of pregnancy in order to prevent them from seeking an abortion until it is no longer legally possible.[71][72][73]

The American College of obstetricians and Gynecologist have found that CPCs are “often non medical facilities who have no legal obligation to provide pregnant people with accurate information and are not subject to HIPAA or required by law to maintain client confidentiality.[66]

Care Net denounces "any form of deception in its corporate advertising or individual conversations with its clients", though they also say of their promotion of an abortion–breast cancer link that their "role is clearly to include this possible risk when [they] educate clients about all the risks of abortions."[35]

A July 2006 report by Representative

House Committee on Government Reform noted that CPCs had received over $30 million in federal funding since 2001, derived mostly from programs for abstinence-only education. For this report, female investigators telephoned CPCs that had received federal funding, and posed as pregnant teenagers deciding whether to get an abortion. They found that 20 of the 23 centers reached, (87%) provided false or misleading information about the health effects of abortion, particularly about a supposed link between abortion and breast cancer, supposed risks to subsequent fertility, and supposed negative mental health repercussions.[74]

Religious affiliation

The overwhelming majority of CPCs in the U.S. are run by Christians according to a

Jesus Christ in both word and deed"[78] and that its "pregnancy centers are committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with every person who walks through their doors."[79] Heartbeat International, one of the largest CPC networks in the United States and also the largest CPC network in the world,[80] runs "Christian crisis-pregnancy centers"[81] and describes itself as a "Christian association of faith-based pregnancy resource centers" whose materials are "consistent with Biblical principles".[2] The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), which works with CPCs on legal issues, "strongly believes that sharing the Gospel is an essential part of counseling women in pregnancy help medical clinics".[76] Some CPCs are run by the Catholic Church[7] or by other church groups.[33][82] Unaffiliated CPCs, or CPCs affiliated with other organizations, may provide a religious perspective in their counseling.[25][31][83][84]

In contrast to the overt Christian perspective of most CPC networks,

Shifra's Arms, also exists.[86]

Many CPCs require their staff to be Christian.[87] For example, as a condition of affiliation, Care Net and the Canadian Association of Pregnancy Support Services, the two largest CPC organizations in the United States and Canada respectively, require each employee and volunteer of a prospective affiliate to comply with a statement of faith.[10][88][89][90] CPCs unaffiliated with either of these may also require staff to be Christian.[91][90][92][93][94]

Religious activity is sometimes part of a CPC customer's experience. Care Net, which "is committed to presenting the gospel of our Lord to women with crisis pregnancies",[90] claims to have effected over 23,000 conversions or restatements of Christian faith.[79] NIFLA "strongly believes that sharing the Gospel is an essential part of counseling women in pregnancy help medical clinics".[76] Some visitors to CPCs report that employees subjected them to unwanted evangelizing.[31][67][95][96]

CPCs outside the United States are also frequently Christian. CareConfidential, the largest umbrella network for CPCs in the United Kingdom, runs "Christian-based pregnancy crisis centres"[97] and is a division of the Christian charity CARE.[98] The Canadian Association of Pregnancy Support Services, a similar network in Canada whose centers may also affiliate with Care Net or Heartbeat International, describes itself as a "Christian charity";[99] its affiliates "adhere firmly to Christianity".[10] The United States-based Human Life International runs "Catholic pregnancy centers" in Mexico[100] and also provides aid to the Centros de Ayuda para la Mujer, a network of CPCs in Latin America whose philosophy is "in conformity with the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church."[101] As in the United States, unaffiliated CPCs may also be run by church groups or are otherwise Christian.

Affiliation with the anti-abortion movement

Most crisis pregnancy centers are affiliated with several major

Heartbeat International, Birthright International, and National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA).[26] A CPC may be affiliated with more than one network. US-based Care Net and Heartbeat International are the world's two largest CPC networks with about 3,000 associated centers between them in the United States and abroad.[102][103] Italy, for example, has more than 400 CPCs associated with Heartbeat International, the largest number outside the U.S.[104] The largest UK organisations are CareConfidential and LIFE, while the largest Canadian one is the Canadian Association of Pregnancy Support Services (CAPSS). Human Life International, a Catholic
group opposed to abortion, also runs CPCs outside the United States.

Advertising methods

Example of an advertisement for a CPC

CPCs have been criticized for deceptive advertising. Some falsely advertise abortion services, attracting clients who wish to have an abortion.

women often went to the United Kingdom to end their pregnancies, "rogue" CPCs, in contrast to government sponsored pregnancy centers, might falsely give the impression in their advertising that they referred women to Britain for abortions or otherwise provided information for women seeking to travel for abortion.[109][110]

In recent years, CPCs have also begun using the Internet as a means of advertising. Some use search engine optimization to get their websites closer to the top of search results[111] or bid against abortion providers to appear at the top of sponsored link sections on Google and Yahoo.[16]

Heartbeat International, a Christian association that runs 1,800 crisis pregnancy centers, recommends that CPCs use two websites, one fundraising website that describes an anti-abortion mission to secure donors, and another website that purports to provide medical information to attract women seeking contraception, counseling, or abortion.[112]

In August 2022, after a group of 21 Democratic senators criticized Google for displaying CPCs alongside abortion clinics in search and map results when users searched for abortion services, Google stated that they will now clearly demarcate whether a clinic "Provides abortions" or, when Google is unable to verify that the clinic provides abortions: "Might not provide abortions".[113][114][115][116][117] Yelp stated that it will use new labels to differentiate CPCs into separate categories from clinics which provide abortions.[117][118]

Legality of advertising methods

Much legal and legislative action around CPCs has attempted to rein in deceptive advertising by CPCs seeking to give the impression that they provide abortions or other women's health services.

Lawsuits against a number of CPCs have determined that they engaged in false advertising and required them to change their methods, or led to settlements where they agreed to do so. CPCs that advertised that they provided abortion services were forbidden from doing so[25][105][119] or obliged to affirmatively tell clients that they did not do so.[25][35] In some instances, CPCs were prohibited from using names similar to nearby medical clinics that provided abortions,[119] from providing pregnancy tests,[25][35] or from advertising pregnancy tests as "free" if they were conditional upon hearing a presentation or counseling.[35] In one of these cases, the CPC argued that they did not receive money from clients and were therefore not subject to regulations on commercial speech, but the court ruled that they were not exempt because they aimed to provide services rather than exchange ideas.[119]

Several ordinances requiring CPCs to post signs disclosing that they do not provide abortions, birth control, referrals for either, and sometimes other medical services have been enjoined, with courts finding that such "compelled speech" violates the centers' rights.[120][121][122] In December 2009, Baltimore, Maryland was the first local government to introduce and pass a CPC ordinance—Ordinance 09-252, "Limited Service Pregnancy Centers—Disclaimers".[123] Austin, Texas, amended its law requiring centers to disclose that they do not offer abortion or birth control services to instead require them to disclose whether they do offer medical services under the direction of a licensed health care provider.[124] A bill in Oregon would require its CPCs, currently unregulated, to disclose whether or not they provide these services, and bar them from releasing health information collected from clients without the clients' consent.[125][126][127] In San Francisco, rather than compelling any speech, the city ordinance is framed as a false advertising law which allows courts to fine CPCs up to $500 every time they falsely imply in an advertisement that they offer abortion services.[128] The law's constitutionality was upheld in federal court, with a judge dismissing a lawsuit from a CPC that had been identified by the city attorney as advertising deceptively.[129][130]

California's 2015 Reproductive FACT Act requires CPCs without medical licenses to post signs saying that they are not licensed medical facilities and have no medical professionals providing or supervising services; CPCs must also let clients know about the state's public programs for reproductive health care.[131][132] The law was challenged in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, argued at the Supreme Court on March 20, 2018, with the Court required to decide whether or not the disclosures required by the California Reproductive FACT Act violated the free speech clause of the First Amendment.[133] The Court ruled on June 26, 2018, in a 5–4 decision that the notices required by the FACT Act violate the First Amendment by targeting speakers rather than speech.[134]

On March 30, 2006,

113th Congress.[138]

In 2002, after an investigation and subpoenas of a number of New York State CPCs alleged to be engaged in deceptive business practices,

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office worked out an agreement with one of the CPCs in question, intended to be used as a model, which sets out practices including informing clients that the center does not provide abortion or birth control, that it is not a licensed medical facility, and that the pregnancy tests it provides are over-the-counter.[140]

In the United Kingdom, the Advertising Standards Authority mandated in 2013 that the Central London Women's Centre must stop using "misleading" and "irresponsible" advertisements implying that it offered abortion services.[43]

Government support

See also: Choose Life license plates

As of July, 2006, 50 American CPCs had received

federal funding.[70] Between 2001 and 2006, over $60 million in federal funds were given to crisis pregnancy centers, much of it coming from funding for abstinence-only programs provided under the conservative George W. Bush administration.[22]

Florida Choose Life tag

In 2006, 20 U.S. states subsidized crisis pregnancy centers.

license plates. Motorists in these states can request these plates and pay an extra fee, a portion of which is used by the state to fund adoption support organizations and crisis pregnancy centers.[144] In July 2013, then governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee vetoed a bill for the license plates saying that in his opinion it violated the separation of church and state.[145]

Under the Trump administration, CPCs were encouraged to apply for

hormonal birth control, which many CPCs oppose, is a requirement to receive the grants. One CPC organisation, The Obria Group, was awarded millions in grants in 2019 after promising to provide those services in some clinics, despite not currently offering them.[146][147][148]

Almost immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, 38 Republican legislators in Wisconsin sent a letter to Governor Tony Evers, demanding that he provide $10 million in Federal ARPA funding to crisis pregnancy centers.[149]

Mandatory use of CPCs

South Dakota enacted a law in 2011 which would have required consultation at a crisis pregnancy center as a precondition to obtaining an abortion. The law, which was to take effect in July 2011, also would have established a three-day waiting period, the longest in the country.[150] In June 2011, Judge Karen Schreier issued a preliminary injunction blocking the law from going into effect, writing that the provisions "constitute a substantial obstacle to a woman's decision to obtain an abortion because they force a woman against her will to disclose her decision to undergo an abortion to a pregnancy help center employee before she can undergo an abortion."[151] Although the law remains enjoined, the state later enacted another law which excluded weekends and holidays from the 72-hour waiting period mandated for a person seeking an abortion, potentially extending the wait for the procedure to six days, so that only days when CPCs were already open would count as part of the period.[152]

In some cases, judges responsible for granting judicial bypasses to minors have required them to go to a CPC for counseling before having an abortion.[153]

Confusion with government-supported centers in Ireland

See also: Abortion in the Republic of Ireland

In Ireland, centres not affiliated with the government exist that attempt to persuade women not to have an abortion. These have been reported to "use manipulation and alarmist information",[109][154] including false medical information,[55] and have been called "rogue agencies".[54][109][155]

The government's Crisis Pregnancy Programme (formerly Crisis Pregnancy Agency) funds crisis pregnancy initiatives and is in turn reimbursed by the Health Service Executive;[156] however, crisis pregnancy counseling grants, provided through a campaign called "Positive Options", are only awarded to centres that offer non-directive and medically accurate counselling that discusses all possible options, including travelling abroad for abortion.[109] Government sponsored centres' efforts to reduce the number of women who opt for abortion consist primarily of the provision of "services and supports which make other options more attractive."[156] A survey by the CPP found that 4 in 46 women surveyed encountered a "rogue agency" when seeking counseling.[157] The Department of Health does not regulate the anti-abortion agencies, since the 1995 Abortion Information Act, which establishes that Irish women have a right to know about abortion services abroad and which regulates providers of information, does not apply to centres that do not provide information on abortion.[110][158]

The term "crisis pregnancy" is used by abortion-rights agencies like the Irish Family Planning Association.[159]

Attacks and vandalism against CPCs

Some CPCs have been damaged or destroyed in several types of incidents, with some directly attributed to criminal action and others spurring further investigation. A suspected

Department of Homeland Security document that categorized both anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights "extremists" as "domestic violent extremist groups".[162]

Dobbs-related incidents

In the month following the May 2022 publication of a

pro-abortion" militant organization Jane's Revenge of starting the fire.[165]

Additional suspected incidents of arson against crisis pregnancy centers and anti-abortion groups had been reported before the ruling was announced. In May, Jane's Revenge had claimed responsibility for an arson attack against a

ATF and Oregon authorities investigated a fire "suspicious in nature" that damaged a Christian pregnancy center in Gresham on 10 June.[168] "'Thousands' of dollars" of damage to a Southfield, Michigan, CPC on 16 September was attributed to Jane's Revenge.[169] Catholic News Agency reported that there were 82 total instances of abortion-rights-related vandalism, theft, and arson between early May and 22 July 2022. Of these, 50 were against pregnancy centers.[170] In January 2023, the FBI announced they were offering a $25,000 reward for providing "information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the suspect(s)" in the attacks, while a CPC operator announced it would hire private investigators.[171]

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