Awareness | Posted by Sheridan T on 10/28/2009
Speaking Out Against CPC’s
CPC's
The Feminist Majority Campus Team has declared the week of Halloween (October 25-31) The CPC Week of Action, aimed at exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centers for what they really are: Pro-life organizations preying on vulnerable women and feeding them fear and guilt when it comes to abortion.
Seriously, these organizations will do anything.
Starting in kindergarten, and continuing on through middle school, I went to a catholic school. In front of our school was always a sign for one of these centers, with a picture of the Virgin Mary and the promise of someone who will “really listen to you.” It turns out this center is run by my local Catholic Pro-Life Organization, a group that holds candle vigils outside Planned Parenthoods and who try to say abortion will give you breast cancer and leave you suicidal, guilty, and hating life.
They post so-called “facts” on their website, such as:
“93% of teens feel that they should be given a strong message that abstinence is the best choice.”
Where did they get that figure? Does that seem right to anybody? The strong majority of high school students I know believe comprehensive sex education that includes information about birth control is the best choice. Here’s another “fact:”
“Condoms don’t prevent pregnancy. They have an annual contraceptive failure rate of 17.4% among teens, 36.3% among unmarried minority women, and 44.5% among unmarried Hispanics.”
Does this not sound incredibely racist to you? They’re basically saying minority women don’t know how to use condoms. I wonder why that is? Maybe because they’re being fed abstinence-only sex ed!
Join me and the Feminist Majority in the fight against CPCs. Information should be objective and factual, not guilt-driven and in some cases, prejudiced. We have the right to choose what to do with our bodies, and we don’t need to put up with this.
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amber @ at 2:52 pm, October 28th, 2009
i’m liking this website
kanadra @ at 8:19 pm, October 28th, 2009
I can’t believe those “facts” That you mentioned. They’re ridiculous! And yes, incredibly Racist.
Thanks for the awareness.
Sarah @ at 8:43 pm, October 28th, 2009
Hmmm.
I attend a catholic high school.
I’m going on the pro life march.
Yet im a feminist.
Actually im not going cause im pro life. I’m not. And im not going cause im a hypocrite either, I just think that we should all see whats out there. I think its are obligation as feminists to think why such catholic organizations are like this, and use this to strengthen our beliefs
Sheridan T @ at 9:24 pm, October 28th, 2009
Actually someone fact-checked these stats. For the first, it came from a study saying 93% of teens are interested in abstinence as a choice. They completely changed around the meaning. For the second, the source the organization cited doesn’t have that statistic anywhere. They made it up.
Toongrrl @ at 3:25 pm, October 29th, 2009
Can they stop masquerading as clinics? NOW?
Genie @ at 1:14 am, October 30th, 2009
This is dangerous. There aren’t too many of these clinics in Australia (where I live, or at least not that I’m aware of) but I’ve followed what is going on with these clinics in the states for a while now and it really disturbs me. I remember reading an article about it a while ago (wish I could remember the title or where it came from!) and the journalist mentioned how none of the people who worked there are registered medical professionals, yet they all wore “doctors’ coats” and nurses’ outfits to give an impression of knowledge and neutrality. Giving Hope? Bullsh*t. All these centres give is guilt and shame and a false sense of righteousness to those involved.
SarahC @ at 8:44 pm, October 30th, 2009
I understand that pro-life people who end up pregnant have a right to care in an environment where they feel supported in their beliefs, but passing these off to unsuspecting pregnant women who might be better off getting an abortion as unbiased centers is unacceptable and immoral.
KC @ at 9:41 pm, October 30th, 2009
I’m actually planning to do some serious investigating at my local CPC’s. They have started advertising at my school and are even bussing girls to a CPC once a week for “free pregnancy tests” and “counseling”. I want to pose as a scared girl who thinks she’s pregnant and find out how they treat me at various clinics and document each experience. I think the more we expose them the better.
K8AH @ at 10:00 pm, November 2nd, 2009
Do it KC! Write about it! I am interested!
kanadra @ at 7:51 pm, November 4th, 2009
i agree with K8AH. It would be very interesting to read that article.
Katie @ at 9:40 pm, November 5th, 2009
@KC, right on! that’s a great idea.
As a convert to the pro choice movement, antichoicers are just plain backwards and hypocritical.
Colleen @ at 10:09 pm, January 5th, 2010
Even though I think abortion is a very difficult, very JUSTIFIABLE decision to any woman who finds herself in a situation of accidental pregnancy, I respect the personal views of people who do not believe in abortion because I like to respect all beliefs, otherwise how could I expect my beliefs to respected right?
However, when these self-righteous, pain in my ass crusaders march around acting like they have a freakin right to tell us what we’re ALLOWED to do with our bodies? It’s just wrong! No one EVER has the right to control what happens to a woman’s body except for that said woman. EVER. I don’t care what you’re personal belief is, the only absolutely wrong thing to do is to take away another person’s right to believe what they want to believe, and choose whether or not to have an abortion. It’s just wrong.