Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Video Shows "Crisis Pregnancy Center" Staffer Giving Medically Inaccurate, Harmful Information
Salon: Caught on tape: Antiabortion center resorts to scary, dangerous lies, by Irin Carmon:
In a secretly recorded video (embedded at the bottom of this story), a young woman named Kate, 19, tells a counselor at Cleveland’s Womankind “maternal and prenatal care” center, “Usually we use condoms, but yesterday we didn’t.” She’s taken a pregnancy test, but is told it is probably too soon. Then Kate asks, “Like, I know there’s a pill you can take to not get pregnant. And I don’t know if you have to go to the doctor?”
After some confusion, the counselor replies inaccurately, “It sounds like the morning after pill. If you have intercourse and then take this pill and it causes a period to come on or something, or bleeding. It’s like having kind of an abortion.” She adds, “That could harm you. It really could harm you … You could hemorrhage from anything like that.” . . .
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2013/06/video-shows-crisis-pregnancy-center-staffer-giving-medically-inaccurate-harmful-information-.html