{"id":300260,"date":"2023-10-17T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=300260"},"modified":"2023-10-24T12:54:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T17:54:26","slug":"new-jersey-rep-slander-pregnancy-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-jersey-rep-slander-pregnancy-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey rep plans slander tour against pregnancy centers, calls them ‘brainwashing cult clinics’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE, 10\/24\/23<\/strong>: According to the Daily Wire<\/a>, one of Gottheimer’s targeted PRCs, Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center in Hackensack \u2014 which is part of the NJ Consortium of Crisis Pregnancy Centers \u2014 has served more than 5,300 clients since 2011 and responded to Gottheimer’s smears. Lighthouse’s executive director, Debbie Provencher, stated<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cWe are deeply disappointed. I would have been happy to meet with Congressman Gottheimer and educate him on the work we do, had he reached out to me. To our knowledge, he has never visited any Lighthouse facility to learn about the services we offer to those facing unexpected pregnancies and to under-served parents.\u201d She added:<\/p>\n

Rep. Gottheimer is directly harming women who benefit from a safe place to think through their pregnancy decisions and obtain medical confirmation of pregnancy for presumptive Medicaid eligibility. The centers also provide women with social support, parenting education, and basic necessities to care for their newborn children. Caring for women and their families is at the heart of what we do as pregnancy centers. Attacks against us are attacks against those we serve.<\/em><\/p>\n

10\/17\/23<\/strong>: According to a Pregnancy Center State Impact Report<\/a>, pregnancy centers in New Jersey served 35,138 women, men, youth, and families in 2019, providing free services and materials valued at nearly $3 million.\u00a0Yet, in a press release<\/a>, a New Jersey representative claims those pro-life pregnancy centers are nothing but “brainwashing cult clinics” and called for them to all be “shut down.”<\/p>\n

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, who will be a special guest at Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey’s Power to the Polls event<\/a> on November 2, announced that he plans to “stop at deceptive crisis pregnancy centers across New Jersey so women know they exist and to fight to shut these dangerous centers down.” He made the announcement while standing in front of Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center, which is a member of the New Jersey Consortium of Pregnancy Centers.<\/p>\n

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