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Frida Ghitis: Crisis pregnancy centers are designed to dissuade pregnant people from terminating their pregnancies.
She says they often give patients false information about pregnancy, abortion, STIs, contraception.
Ghitis says they are often bamboozled into receiving proselytism instead of prognoses.
She asks: How could it even be legal to pose as a medical service when you are not giving medical advice when you're pregnant?.
Frida Ghitis: Supreme Court decisions on religion, speech, states’ rights, and abortion all intersect.
Ghitis says the path to where we are now started decades ago.
She says conservative court facilitated explosion in crisis pregnancy centers across the U.S. She says the centers are fundamentally religious; to obtain the much-vaunted “free” baby supplies, they may compel individuals to attend Bible study or other proselytization sessions.
She writes: The centers get a windfall of “family planning” funding to use in their battle against abortion.
Frida Ghitis: Supreme Court struck down California law protecting women from fake health care.
Ghitis says as CPCs have multiplied at a dizzying rate in America, abortion clinics and maternity wards have dwindled.
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