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Christian pregnancy centers freak out after California turns tables and forces them to disclose abortion rights
For years, conservatives have been placing roadblocks to make it harder for women to get an abortion, but the state of California has turned the tables, forcing Christian pregnancy crisis centers to notify women of their reproductive rights.
NPR reported this week that a number of so-called pregnancy crisis centers were suing the state over regulations in the Reproductive FACT Act, which would force them to post a notice that abortion is legal in the state.
According to the law, a sign in large 22-point type must be posted in the lobby reading:
California has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services (including all FDA-approved methods of contraception), prenatal care, and abortion for eligible women. To determine whether you qualify, contact the county social services office at [insert the telephone number].
More at http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/christians-pregnancy-centers-freak-out-after-california-turns-tables-and-forces-them-to-disclose-abortion-rights/
What's good for the goose...
marym625
(17,997 posts)Things just keep happening for the better since I've been here!
Photographer
(1,142 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Been there when I lived in rural, western Kentucky. But mostly lived in Chicago.
Sorry. Hopefully, you'll not be just a dot soon!
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)And it's great to be able to take my dogs along when I go to vote.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)I just had to take it to the box in the entry area. The polling place workers love my dogs.
marym625
(17,997 posts)I didn't know!
stopbush
(24,396 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Exactly. We need to start beating them with their own stupid stick.
tanyev
(42,622 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)And then place a huge fica plant in front of it?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)NonMetro
(631 posts)Is not as moral as they think they are, and they have no business trying to tell other people anything.
Photographer
(1,142 posts)NonMetro
(631 posts)haele
(12,681 posts)Some of these "Xtian" clinics recoup the cost in the adoption service they provide. And they certainly don't provide family planning worth a spit other than abstinence counseling.
This forces the clinics to actually provide information that there are pregnancy options, pre-natal care, and follow-up services the state of California will pay for, unlike the forced surrogacy for church adoptions that many of these places push. They don't have to discuss abortion there, but they won't be able to tell a desperate pregnant girl or woman that the only care she will be able to afford is through their clinic following their rules.
Haele
knightmaar
(748 posts)All "pregnancy crisis centres" in California must:
Have hallways at least 14 feet wide, but no wider than 16 feet.
A janitorial closet at 100 sq ft in area
A welcoming area with no fewer 16 chairs
A qualified medical doctor, with hospital privileges, on staff at all times.
Ice cream and pickles.
valerief
(53,235 posts)jmowreader
(50,563 posts)A Christian-funded "pregnancy crisis center" should not be allowed to own an ultrasound device with image storage, because I wouldn't put it past these bastards to collect a sonograph of a normal 8th-month pregnancy from someone in their church, then show that image to every client.
knightmaar
(748 posts)Because ... uh ... pregnant women are pretty big ... and, uh, hospital gurneys ... but if you make the hallways too wide, mumble, mumble bad for the environment.
I really don't know the excuses you're supposed to make. These rules are supposed to be onerous and arbitrary.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Along with any equipment necessary and a crash cart. So that's why you need 14' hallways.
16' is so wide as to create the illusion that two beds will pass each other easily which creates a hazardous situation that might result in harm to patients or staff. Wider-still hallways present issues of structural stability in an earthquake. That's why you can't have hallways wider than 16'.
(This is all bullshit...but it's passable bullshit. As my friend Charlie used to say, "If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
jmowreader
(50,563 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)Way to go California, 22 point type ----------------nice a big and readable
Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Unrepentant Fenian
(1,078 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)I'd still like to tell them where to stick the vaginal ultrasound wand.
Busybody buttinskies get to taste their own medicine. How else can activists insinuate themselves in antiabortionists' business? Maybe release heavily edited films about them trying to buy babies?
lark
(23,158 posts)I loved living there for 18 years but had to move back to the South to help with elderly parents. Now, I can't afford to move back. I still love to visit there, however. Great friends, great scenery, awesome Mexican and Chinese food, ah how I miss it there.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and 39 years later he is still laying the smacketh down.
niyad
(113,582 posts)jmowreader
(50,563 posts)niyad
(113,582 posts)houston16revival
(953 posts)Lots of issues would benefit if we would use this logic
We're always on the defensive
PufPuf23
(8,839 posts)Serial Mom
(2,256 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)They aren't just anti-abortion. They want EVERY SINGLE CHILD born out of wedlock to be given up for adoption.