Florida Senate: No more funding for crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)!

[joreth]

Please tell Senator Peaden, Chair of Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee, to hold strong and zero fund these fake clinics!  The Senate has zero funded the dangerous CPC funding.  However, the House maintains the full $2 million appropriation while many desperately needed programs are on the chopping block. 

Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are fake clinics that have been known to use anti-choice propaganda, medically inaccurate or incomplete information, and intimidation tactics to dissuade women from obtaining abortions. Crisis pregnancy centers are not legitimate medical facilities.

CPCs have withheld essential, often life-saving, medically accurate reproductive health information from women who are led to believe that they are visiting a neutral and objective medical facility.  According to the 2004 report by Congressman Waxman of California, during the investigation of crisis pregnancy centers, 87% of the centers provided false or misleading information about the health effects of abortion.  Specifically, the Waxman report found that the centers provided false and misleading information about the effect of abortion on future fertility and false and misleading information about the mental health effects of abortion.

We cannot have our tax dollars being used to support deception and lies rather than proven programs like family planning.   Please ask Senator Peaden to not yield to pressure and to zero fund the dangerous "crisis counseling" line item