Crisis pregnancy centers deceive patients, robbing them of reproductive healthcare by qualified medical professionals. They also increase violence at genuine clinics.
, an abortion clinic in Massachusetts, also had a CPC—Attleboro’s Women’s Health Center—move in next door. For five years and counting, this CPC has been deceiving pregnant people seeking abortion care as they arrive for appointments at Four Women’s Health Services.
Attleboro’s Women’s Health Center using online ads to lure patients is not an isolated incident: Google has madeover the last two years by allowing anti-abortion groups to display deceptive search ads for fake clinics—all at the expense of women and pregnant people’s genuine access and need for reproductive healthcare. This is detailed in a new report, “
Eight of these anti-abortion websites spent over $2.4 million in that two-year period on fake clinic deception and ads—up to four times more money than overt anti-abortion campaigns. Live Action, an anti-abortion extremist group and major promoter of the abortion “reversal,” spent a whopping $2.3 million.
Fake clinics spend four times as much on Google Search ads in states where abortion is legal than where it is not, spending $7.3 million. Thirty-one percent of clinics reported experiencing one or more incidents or threats of severe violence—the second highest reported since 1996. These incidents include: blocking clinic access , invasions , stalking , death threats , bombings, arson, chemical attacks, physical violence, gunfire, bomb threats, arson threats and others.
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