{"id":184545,"date":"2018-06-25T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=184545"},"modified":"2018-06-25T12:54:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:54:23","slug":"new-york-pregnancy-centers-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-pregnancy-centers-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"New York bill targets pregnancy centers with bogus investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Pregnancy Help News<\/a>) As the country awaits a massive decision<\/a> that could be coming out of the Supreme Court any day now, pro-abortion politicians in New York are moving ahead with another attack on pro-life pregnancy help centers.\u00a0Last week, New York Assemblymember Deborah Glick introduced a bill<\/a> that targets pregnancy centers with sham investigations of the state\u2019s 200 pregnancy help centers<\/a>, nonprofits that provide peer counseling, ultrasounds, material aid, and post-abortive help at no cost.<\/p>\n

Similar to other measures that have been pursued over the last several years, the bill starts with an assumption of guilt, calling pregnancy centers \u201cdeceptive clinics that do not provide comprehensive reproductive health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be considered \u201ccomprehensive reproductive health care\u201d, a center\u2019s services would have to include practices with which they profoundly disagree, such as abortion and abortion referrals.<\/p>\n

This limited understanding of what counts as \u201ccomprehensive reproductive health care\u201d underscores the lawmaker\u2019s and abortion lobby\u2019s extraordinary bias. But it also highlights their (perhaps willful) ignorance of the many services and credentials that back pregnancy help centers across the country.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the bill\u2019s justification is built on a contradiction; it emphatically smears pregnancy help enters as \u201cdeceptive\u201d while also claiming ignorance of their activities.<\/p>\n

READ: Where can pregnant rape victims and prostitutes get help? Pregnancy centers.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he true scope of their prevalence in New York is unknown,\u201d the bill argues\u2014even though NARAL Pro-Choice America and other pro-abortion groups have sent their own \u201cinvestigators\u201d into pregnancy help centers to expose them as an \u201cinsidious threat to reproductive freedom<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piling on the abortion lobby\u2019s growing heap of lackluster investigations, the bill mandates state investigations based on the \u201cpotential harm that (pregnancy help centers) can cause\u201d rather than any actual harm. But contrary to the accusation, there is exactly zero evidence for any harm or deceit perpetrated by pregnancy help centers.<\/p>\n

Just last December, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals made that very clear<\/a> in a decision striking down a similarly baseless but just as invasive law in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

Responding to the notion that pregnancy help centers are \u201cdeceptive,\u201d the Court noted<\/a> that \u201cafter seven years of litigation and a 1,295-page record before us, the City does not identify a single example of a woman who entered the Greater Baltimore Center\u2019s waiting room under the misimpression that she could obtain an abortion there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last January, undercover investigators with the City of Los Angeles came to a similar conclusion<\/a>. After a month of investigating the city\u2019s seven pro-life pregnancy centers at the bidding of the abortion lobby, they announced their inquiry had found no evidence that anything was amiss.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0few years before either those findings, the U.S. Second Court of Appeals largely struck down an ordinance by the City of New York that forced pregnancy centers to refer women seeking help away from their own offices, while mandating that they prominently advertise the services they do not offer, including abortion and abortion referrals, the morning-after abortion pill or prenatal care. The judge blasted the measure as \u201ca bureaucrat\u2019s dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there isn\u2019t any evidence to demand an investigation of pregnancy help centers, there certainly is evidence to demand more accountability of abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

Just this spring, New York abortionist Robert Rho\u2014responsible for about 40,000 abortions\u2014pled guilty<\/a> to criminally negligent homicide in the 2016 death of Jamie Lee Morales, a six months pregnant woman who bled to death in a severely botched abortion.<\/p>\n

Morales\u2019s death wasn\u2019t necessarily a random tragedy.<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press<\/a>, before her death, Rho had already been investigated by state officials over concerns that he was performing procedures improperly and using assistants who lacked medical training.<\/p>\n

After Morales\u2019s death, Rho closed his clinic and surrendered his medical license. But the damage was more than done.<\/p>\n

It leaves one to wonder: If state investigators couldn\u2019t protect a woman from the dangers of an abortion facility\u2014in a country where abortion is legal but supposedly regulated\u2014why should they waste time and tax dollars investigating pregnancy help centers when there isn\u2019t a shred of evidence to suggest they pose any real danger?<\/p>\n

After all, no fatalities have been produced by a single pregnancy help center, for mother or child.<\/p>\n

READ: Debunking Planned Parenthood’s false claims about pregnancy centers<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, pregnancy centers have a stunning client satisfaction rate of 99 percent<\/a>\u2014a rating higher than Netflix, Chipotle, and the iPhone<\/a>\u2014and are overwhelmingly preferred<\/a> to abortion facilities by the American public.<\/p>\n

In the end, all this bill chalks up to is another political smear designed to settle the score for the abortion industry.<\/p>\n

Not only are they significantly outnumbered<\/a> by locally run pregnancy help centers, they are also constantly fighting off scandal after scandal\u2014horrific acts that simply aren\u2019t found in pregnancy centers.<\/p>\n

After being exposed again and again for heinous practices like covering up sex abuse<\/a> and trafficking the organs of unborn babies<\/a>, abortion advocates have been at their wit\u2019s end, desperate to expose pregnancy help centers for something just as gritty.<\/p>\n

Though this bill isn\u2019t expected to pass before the end of the 2018 legislative session this month, it certainly serves as another hopeless example of just how much the abortion lobby fears actual competition with pregnancy help centers.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at Pregnancy Help News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Pregnancy Help News) As the country awaits a massive decision that could be coming out of the Supreme Court any day now, pro-abortion politicians in New York are moving ahead with another attack on pro-life pregnancy help centers.\u00a0Last week, New York Assemblymember Deborah Glick introduced a bill that targets pregnancy centers with sham investigations of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":420,"featured_media":79670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7077],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew York bill targets pregnancy centers with bogus investigations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After being exposed for covering up sex abuse and trafficking fetal organs, abortion advocates hope to paint pregnancy centers as evil and deceptive.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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