{"id":196681,"date":"2019-02-19T09:18:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=196681"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:18:35","slug":"officials-connecticut-pregnancy-linked-pro-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/officials-connecticut-pregnancy-linked-pro-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials deciding fate of Connecticut pregnancy centers are linked to pro-abortion group"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In close to 30 years, not a single client of a Connecticut pregnancy center has submitted a complaint against them to the Better Business Bureau, Consumer Affairs, the police, social service organizations or the pregnancy centers themselves. The only “complaints” against pregnancy centers come from a pro-abortion rights group — NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut — and the volunteers they sent into centers to create a biased report. Yet, on February 11th, as the Communications Director for the Family Institute of Connecticut<\/a>,\u00a0I joined Connecticut pregnancy center leaders and their supporters at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford to defend the work of pregnancy centers against\u00a0H.B. 7070- An Act Concerning Deceptive Practices at Limited Services Pregnancy Centers<\/a>.\u00a0The bill is almost identical to H.B. 5416, a bill that died in committee last year, reportedly because CT already has sufficient trade laws (CT Unfair Trade Practices Act)<\/a> and doesn’t need a new one solely focused on pregnancy centers.<\/p>\n

With decades worth of helpful service in their communities and no proof to support claims of “deceptive advertising,” one may wonder why pregnancy centers are fighting bills like this one. Sadly, it’s because of harassment from pro-abortion activists and aggressive pro-choice elected officials who discriminate against them and mischaracterize\u00a0the work they do.<\/p>\n

Those deciding on whether to regulate pregnancy centers in the state are actually connected to NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut. Pointing out those connections earned me public chastisement from committee members.<\/p>\n