{"id":209846,"date":"2019-09-03T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=209846"},"modified":"2019-09-02T21:48:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T02:48:03","slug":"entertainment-weekly-pregnancy-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/entertainment-weekly-pregnancy-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment Weekly joins the attack against pro-life pregnancy centers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an interview with actress Anne Winters, who plays Chloe in Netflix’s controversial 13 Reasons Why<\/em>, Entertainment Weekly<\/a>‘s Sydney Bucksbaum made it a point to cast pro-life pregnancy centers and pro-lifers in a negative light. The storyline: Chloe is a teenage cheerleader who resorts to an abortion<\/a> after her boyfriend rapes her. But in her “journey” towards her abortion, Chloe must endure what EW considers disturbing moments at the hands of pro-lifers.<\/p>\n

Winter’s character initially visits what she believes to be an abortion clinic, but it turns out to be a pro-life pregnancy center. She says that her character was “tricked.” In reality, pregnancy centers advertise their services as exactly what they are: pro-life centers that exist to provide women with free services, including pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, clothing, baby gear, diapers, parenting classes, and housing. Some centers are licensed clinics\u00a0working under the direction of a doctor and providing on-site prenatal exams, and\/or STD testing. Bucksbaum claims that providing these services to women is “traumatizing” to them. She writes:<\/p>\n

She first had to endure visiting a fake abortion clinic, a practice that actually exists to \u201cintentionally deceive pregnant women into believing that they provide a full range of women\u2019s health services when, in reality, they provide only a pregnancy test, accompanied by intense anti-abortion propaganda,\u201d according to the\u00a0National Institutes of Health<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The issue isn’t just that this is a complete lie, but that Bucksbaum had the gall to actually attribute her lie to the National Institutes of Health. In response to this, Newsbusters<\/a> wrote, “The only problem is that the quote describing CPCs does not come from NIH, it is taken from the\u00a0abstract of a journal article<\/a>\u00a0found by searching NIH\u2019s PubMed search engine database. She might as well have written ‘according to Google.'”<\/p>\n

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