Since they’re not exactly transparent.
outlines a few other common but completely false myths regarding safe, legal abortion: that it can cause infertility or pregnancy issues later in life, that it’s likely to have long-term negative impacts on mental health, that abortion is often or always a dangerous and even life-threatening procedure. Again, none of this is true, but it’s the kind of information you might hear from a crisis pregnancy center.
If you do actually go into a CPC, you’ll often pretty quickly get the sense that they don’t think abortion is your best option. “If your conversation leans one way, then we say they’re catfishing you,” says Flint. Remember that a real medical health center—whether or not it provides or refers for abortions—shouldn’t try to scare you into any one particular choice. “It’s so cruel to infringe on a patient’s autonomy,” Hasstedt says.Crisis pregnancy centers often have the word “choice” in their names, giving the illusion that they provide a broad range of care, Kinsey Hasstedt, M.P.H., senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, tells SELF.
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