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Liberal government introduces legislation to require charities that offer pregnancy counselling to disclose whether they also offer abortion and birth control.

If passed, organizations that don’t clearly disclose their services would be at risk of losing their charitable status.

Pregnancy counselling services often advertise themselves as places where women facing an unplanned pregnancy can get guidance on the options available to them.

They are sometimes referred to in Canada and the U.S. as crisis pregnancy centres.

Some states have diverted federal funding for reproductive and family health care from organizations like Planned Parenthood toward crisis pregnancy centres. —with files from the Canadian Press .