Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are the "provider" arm of the anti-choice movement, using federal funding to lure pregnant women into their facilities, and then thrusting misleading and sensationalized anti-choice propaganda at them.
- CPCs are fake “clinics” which seek to attract women faced with unintended pregnancies. Many of these centers entice women under the pretense of providing the full range of reproductive options.
- Rather than indicating their anti-choice agenda in the center’s name, founders of CPCs assume neutral names, like “Abortion Advice” or “Pregnancy Problem Center” to mislead women into thinking that they support a woman’s right to choose abortion.
- CPCs are generally staffed by anti-choice volunteers, not certified medical personnel. They provide inaccurate information to women about reproductive health issues, such as birth control, and abortion. CPC staffers uses anti-abortion propaganda, misinformation, and intimidation to dissuade women from exercising their right to choose.
- Currently, legislatures in at least two states (PA, MO) appropriate funds to alternatives to abortion services, including CPCs, out of their general revenue budgets. State legislatures have also considered bills that would allocate tobacco settlement funds and funds from the sale of anti-choice license plates (MO) to alternatives to abortion services.
- Both the federal government and the states now make abstinence-only grants to a variety of public and private entities and, increasingly, this money has been directed to CPCs.
- Nationwide, CPCs far outnumber abortion providers. While there are over 3000 CPCs across the country (up from 2000 in the early 1990s), there are only approximately 2000 abortion providers.
- In Oregon, there are 53 CPCs.
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