{"id":49330,"date":"2014-05-06T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T12:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=49330"},"modified":"2014-05-06T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T12:38:06","slug":"busted-narals-deceptive-claims-about-deceptive-crisis-pregnancy-center-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/busted-narals-deceptive-claims-about-deceptive-crisis-pregnancy-center-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Busted: NARAL’s deceptive claims about ‘deceptive’ crisis pregnancy center ads"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As we all know by now, there\u2019s nothing pro-choice organizations like NARAL hate more than crisis pregnancy centers. Nothing.<\/em> On April 28th, NARAL announced<\/a> that it had persuaded Google to remove \u201cdeceptive ads\u201d from \u201canti-choice\u201d centers. NARAL claimed that 79% of the CPCs that advertise on Google pose as abortion clinics in an effort to mislead pregnant women.<\/p>\n

To anyone familiar with CPCs, NARAL\u2019s \u201canalysis\u201d sounded like a big, fat lie, and now we have proof that it is. Jill Stanek\u2019s blog has evidence<\/a> that the ads weren\u2019t \u201cdeceptive,\u201d and in any case, no CPC ads were removed. It appears Google itself was responsible for CPC ads popping up in searches for abortion clinics.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, NARAL fabricated the Google storyline, and the mainstream media willingly or ignorantly fell for it. NARAL got what it wanted in the short term \u2013 free media to tarnish the brand of pregnancy care centers\u2026But NARAL also revealed the desperation of an industry that is bleeding its only source of income, abortion, to the pro-life movement, and the industry obviously and rightfully deems pregnancy care centers to be major culprits.<\/p>\n

But NARAL better be careful what it wishes for. A Google search today of \u201ccrisis pregnancy center\u201d turned up an ad for none other than Planned Parenthood\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, the irony! By NARAL\u2019s own standards, isn\u2019t Planned Parenthood also trying to deceive pregnant women?<\/p>\n

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The campaign against CPCs has been going on since at least 2006, when the National Abortion Federation issued a major report<\/a> called \u201cCrisis Pregnancy Centers: An Affront to Choice.\u201d The report clearly intended to make CPCs sound unscrupulous, but was woefully short on details.<\/p>\n

Apparently, CPCs deceive women by hiring medical professionals:<\/p>\n

Although CPCs historically have not employed medical staff, there is an emerging trend on the part of CPCs to gain validity by hiring part-time anti-choice medical providers and purchasing ultrasound equipment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CPCs deceive women if they \u201clook like\u201d abortion clinics:<\/p>\n

CPCs\u2019 deceptive tactics extend to their physical appearance as well. CPCs often design their facilities to look like actual health care facilities with a waiting room, a partitioned check-in desk, and an ultrasound machine. They typically locate themselves near clinics that offer abortions in a deliberate attempt to increase their legitimacy and lure potential patients away from receiving abortion care by capitalizing on patients\u2019 confusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, there was the usual complaining about CPCs advertising with keywords an abortion clinic might use, such as \u201cPregnancy\u201d and \u201cMedical.\u201d They even suggested that the term \u201cabortion alternatives\u201d was confusing, since women apparently aren’t smart enough to figure out that \u201cabortion alternatives\u201d means\u2026exactly what it sounds like.<\/p>\n

Yawn<\/em>. This latest witch hunt targeting CPCs should surprise no one. As usual, pro-choicers made outlandish accusations that CPCs set out to\u00a0 \u201cdeceive\u201d women\u2014and turned up nothing to support this claim. I suspect NARAL\u2019s real problem isn\u2019t that crisis pregnancy centers use misleading Google ads, but that organizations that help women through their pregnancies exist at all.<\/p>\n

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