Women's Rights & Issues

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts) Sat Jun 30, 2012, 05:02 PM Jun 2012

Federal court says its legal for ''Crisis Pregnancy Centers'' to deceive women

Court Allows Crisis Pregnancy Centers To Decieve Women | Crisis Pregnancy Centers often masquerade as abortion consultation facilities — they lure in women who are pregnant and terrified, and then often try to convince them not to get the procedure. Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that is a totally acceptable practice. The city of Baltimore passed a law in 2009 to require such centers to post disclosures of their positions on abortion and contraception. Then, a lower court put a hold on enforcement of that law. Today, the appeals court agreed with the lower court by a vote of 2-1. It is possible this decision could be reversed by a larger panel of the same court, however. The overwhelming majority of judges on the Fourth Circuit are Democratic appointees, but the panel that decided this case included two Republicans.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/29/509018/court-allows-crisis-pregnancy-centers-to-decieve-women/

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Federal court says its legal for ''Crisis Pregnancy Centers'' to deceive women (Original Post) Tx4obama Jun 2012 OP

Courts rule that doctors can lie Angry Dragon Jun 2012 #1

NC is riddled with these forced breeding facilities ProfessionalLeftist Jun 2012 #2

I agree with the dissenting judge Gormy Cuss Jun 2012 #3

holy crap maddezmom Jul 2012 #4

such b.s. dana_b Jul 2012 #5

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

1. Courts rule that doctors can lie

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Sat Jun 30, 2012, 05:10 PM

Jun 2012

The New American Way

ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)

2. NC is riddled with these forced breeding facilities

Reply to Tx4obama (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 06:09 PM

Jun 2012

deceptively marketed as "reproductive health" centers.

http://www.prochoicenc.org/assets/bin/pdfs/2011NARAL_CPCReport_V05_web.pdf

EDIT: I guess it's no different than telling doctors they can lie to women about their pregnancy to keep them from aborting if the fetus isn't viable or the baby won't live long after birth due to a severe deformity or whatever - or if the mother's life might be in danger by continuing/completing the pregnancy. In some situation recently in this ongoing war on women, this was also ruled legal.

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)

3. I agree with the dissenting judge

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Sat Jun 30, 2012, 09:03 PM

Jun 2012

who wrote this:

U.S. Circuit Judge Robert King, who dissented, called the majority's decision "indefensible" and said "these proceedings have thus followed a course more fitting a kangaroo court than a court of the United States," given extensive evidence of their deception.

maddezmom

(135,060 posts)

4. holy crap

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Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:01 PM

Jul 2012

dana_b

(11,546 posts)

5. such b.s.

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Fri Jul 13, 2012, 03:20 PM

Jul 2012

This makes me so angry. I remember taking a friend to a “crisis” center when she thought that she was pregnant (she was) and we were taken completely off guard when they presented us with these religious pamphlets on why abortion is a sin. It left a completely bad taste in my mouth as a young woman. She ended up keeping the baby but it wasn’t because of what they said to her. Once she realized that they were not going to discuss her true options with her we left and found Planned Parenthood in the next town over.

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