Don't be confused by a fake clinic or "crisis pregnancy center!"
They are anti-choice organizations, often using inaccurate medical information and coercion. And their staff may not be medical professionals. One of these fake clinics is right here in Nevada County, in Grass Valley - LivingWell. And another in Auburn - New Life Pregnancy Center. Read a short article about it.

Remember that abortions are legal; they are a safe and simple medical procedure, they are safer than childbirth; they are a common healthcare need. We do not persuade anyone to have an abortion or to have sex but we do want to see everyone have the access to affordable, confidential family planning services, current medical knowledge, and reproductive healthcare. We give them the options and they make the choice - we don't make the choice for them.

Why are CPCs so bad?
Crisis Pregnancy Centers, often advertising under "abortion services" in the yellow pages, pose as full-service women's health clinics and lure women in with promises of free pregnancy tests and "counseling" for unintended pregnancies.   Contrary to what they want you to believe, these fake clinics repeatedly make false medical claims to dissuade and delay women from obtaining comprehensive medical services, particularly abortion and birth control.

Why do we single out LivingWell?
LivingWell is a local CPC. We believe that everyone is entitled to hear medically accurate facts about all of the choices , without bias or religious slants. LivingWell’s website and the links within do not dispense accepted medical science; their staff and volunteers are required to sign a statement of faith; one of their representatives stated in a KVMR interview (January 2009) that their clinic does not even dispense condoms. One of their purposes is to prevent abortions, to “preserve the life of the unborn child.” A LivingWell representative has also been teaching the sex education classes at some of the high schools, wth methods that are questionable; read about Citizens for Choice concerns and actions .

Here are some examples of medical inaccuracies:

• Physical problems: Their website claims that abortion “is a life changing event with significant physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences,” yet an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association states that from 1979 to 1985 (the years of the study), complications from legal abortions were rare and adverse emtional reactions were rare. (JAMA ,Vol. 268 No. 22, December 9, 1992, Induced termination of pregnancy before and after Roe v Wade. Trends in the mortality and morbidity of women. Council on Scientific Affairs, AMA).
• Emotional problems: In August 2008 the American Psychological Association issued a report stating that “…among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single elective first-trimester abortion than if they deliver that pregnancy.” (APA Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion

Their website leads to another site, with two (among many) more inaccuracies:

• http://www.abortionfacts.com/literature/literature_928YC.asp) which states medically inaccurate claims such as post-abortion syndrome, something not recognized by either the American Psychological Association or the American Psychiatric Association (APA Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion)
• It also lists a correlation between abortion and breast cancer, proven to be not true by the National Cancer Institute (2003 NCI study Summary Report: Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Workshop, National Cancer Institute).

Please read the article linked above and watch this video presented by RH Reality Check.

Crisis Pregnancy Clinics and Abstinence Federal Funding: Just say no!
Millions of federal dollars fund failed abstinence-only programs and Crisis Pregnancy Centers or "fake clinics." Congressional studies have shown abstinence only programs don't work and too often lead young people to question the need for contraception.

Sign this petition and tell Congress to stop funding these deceptive clinics and failed clinics and stop endangering women's  health!
 
Read the report prepared by Rep. Henry Waxman: False and Misleading Health Information Providied by Federally Funded Pregnancy Resource Centers.

For more information, visit the Crisis Pregnancy Centers Watch website.

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Read the review for Carole Joffe's book, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars.

Fake clinics, or "crisis pregnancy centers" give you one choice - theirs. NARAL has just completed a two-year study on CPCs, Unmasking Fake Clinics. You really need to read this.

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Questions about HPV (human papillomavirus)? This Nantional Cancer Institute Fact Sheet is a good source!

Abstinence-only education still doesn't work.