{"id":250944,"date":"2021-08-09T18:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=250944"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:42:31","slug":"pro-abortion-researchers-downplay-study-pregnancy-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-researchers-downplay-study-pregnancy-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion researchers downplay study showing how pregnancy centers help women avoid abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(National Review<\/a>)\u00a0A new research paper<\/a> has found that pregnant women who are considering abortion and visit a crisis-pregnancy center (CPC) are about 20 percent less likely to choose abortion than pregnant women who don\u2019t visit one.<\/p>\n

For those of us familiar with the work of these centers \u2014 and who are inclined to believe the wealth of statistics suggesting that most pregnant women don\u2019t view abortion as their primary or most desirable option, even for a unplanned pregnancy \u2014 this result isn\u2019t especially surprising.<\/p>\n

The entire purpose of a CPC is to help women consider abortion alternatives and obtain the assistance they need to make it easier for them to continue pregnancy and give birth to their child. For some mothers, this means considering and choosing adoption. For others, it looks more like offering financial or material support that the mother isn\u2019t receiving from the child\u2019s father or from her family. For others, it might simply be counseling and encouragement, the assurance that motherhood is a worthwhile choice and one that the woman is capable of undertaking.<\/p>\n

But in their conclusion, the authors of the study suggest that the higher rate of pregnant women choosing not to abort after visiting a CPC must be at least in part because these centers are lying to the women who visit them.<\/p>\n

\u201cCPCs may be providing resources to people who are considering continuing their pregnancy and\/or they may be misleading people about the care and referrals they provide related to abortion,\u201d the authors write. \u201cPregnant people need access to accurate information, decision support, and resources to make the pregnancy or abortion decision that is best for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is hardly the first time that CPCs have been accused, with no evidence, of\u00a0 providing fraudulent information to women and thereby convincing them not to abort. A few years back, abortion-advocacy organization NARAL Pro-Choice America conducted an undercover \u201cinvestigation\u201d into CPCs called \u201cUnmasking Fake Clinics,\u201d in which the group accused these centers of misleading women with \u201clies\u201d such as this one: \u201cMore than 67% of the locations intentionally referred to the fetus as \u2018baby\u2019 and told our investigator she was already a mother because she was already pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n

A pro-life perspective, to be sure. But also a factually accurate one, and hardly an example of fraud or medical misinformation.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Former abortion workers speak: The abortion industry sees pregnancy centers as competition<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n