{"id":181421,"date":"2018-04-12T09:14:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=181421"},"modified":"2018-04-11T18:09:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T22:09:59","slug":"naral-caught-lying-hearing-another-attempt-push-abortion-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/naral-caught-lying-hearing-another-attempt-push-abortion-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"NARAL caught lying during hearing in another attempt to push abortion agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When your job is to ensure that women in America not only retain the right to end the lives of their children through abortion but to convince them they should celebrate this horror, it isn’t surprising that you would stoop to lying to get what you want. That’s what NARAL Pro-Choice America was caught doing on March 20, 2018, during a hearing with Connecticut’s Public Health Committee for a bill that would have dictated how private, donor-funded pregnancy resource centers in the state advertise.<\/p>\n

NARAL, threatened by pro-life pregnancy resource centers and clinics that offer women real choices instead of abortion, and which outnumber hugely abortion facilities<\/a>, attempted to get the Public Health Committee to take on the bill that would force PRCs to post signs indicating what they don’t provide. The bill died six days later because the committee saw right through NARAL’s agenda.<\/p>\n

NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut arrived at the hearing armed with testimonies from women who claimed that PRCs, including A Better Choice’s Women Center in Middletown, had misled women and tricked them into entering their centers. But the truth is that it was NARAL as usual who was doing the misleading. At least one of their supposed testimonies was proven to be a completely\u00a0fabricated story about a non-existent woman. And if one of their testimonies was fake, then none of the others could be trusted.<\/p>\n

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Staff from ABC Women’s Center and Family Insitute of CT wait to testify in support of pregnancy resource centers in Connecticut.<\/p><\/div>\n

The testimony in question concerned a supposed 19-year-old client of ABC Women’s Center who allegedly told NARAL that she had gone into the center for a pregnancy test and was made to feel ashamed of herself and was given religious documents against her will. However, ABC Women’s Center keeps records on every client and they were, therefore, able to fact-check the testimony.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no actual client that came into ABC that was 19 in 2015 that fit the criteria,\u201d Christina Bennett, former employee of ABC and communications manager for Family Institute of Connecticut told Pregnancy Help News<\/a>. \u201cSo, what we really believe is that some of NARAL\u2019s testimonies were just made up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Public Health Committee asked NARAL why these women didn’t appear to testify themselves, and NARAL claimed they were too frightened to do so. The members of the committee also questioned why none of the women had\u00a0gone to\u00a0the police, consumer affairs, or\u00a0other public officials. How was it possible that every complaint came to the committee through NARAL? Likely because they were fake.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time NARAL’s been caught lying about pregnancy resource centers. In 2014<\/a>, they claimed that when they searched Google for abortion facilities, almost 80 percent of the time it was pregnancy help centers that came up and that those centers were misleading about the “options” they offer in order to trick women into coming to the pregnancy center. It should be noted that not offering abortion<\/em> does not mean that there are no options offered. It means there are non-violent options. Planned Parenthood, however, offers one option: abortion. NARAL said that in response to this, Google took down many of the pregnancy help center advertisements. But it turned out that NARAL was lying and Google never took any of the pro-life center ads down.<\/p>\n

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