Grateful @Jezebel dug into our report on how the increasingly government-funded CPC industry surveils & tracks pregnant people jezebel.com/crisis-pregnan…
The "new research says CPCs have become an even greater threat to the health and safety of pregnant people amid the recent surge in state abortion bans and restrictions — particularly Texas’ #SB8" jezebel.com/crisis-pregnan…
As our #DesignedtoDeceive report lays out, the modern CPC industry is:
👉steered by global anti-abortion orgs
👉funded by your taxes
👉using digital tactics to target & track clients
"At these centers, patients are often treated primarily to drugstore-grade pregnancy tests and a barrage of lies about how abortion causes breast cancer or how medication abortions can be 'reversed.'"
"A key takeaway from the report is the unique threat that CPCs pose to pregnant people’s privacy, through the information they collect online and in-person from people considering abortion"
"The anti-abortion, crisis pregnancy center conglomerate Heartbeat International stores its digital communications with “abortion-minded” pregnant people to use 'for any and all purposes.'"
"this new study is an illuminating look at an increasingly effective tool for spying on pregnant people and targeting poor people of color" jezebel.com/crisis-pregnan…
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CPCs feature Black models on their websites to suggest CPCs are trusted sources of information for people of color, especially Black women, advancing a long-standing CPC strategy of racial targeting #DesignedToDeceive
Pennsylvania even diverts TANF, safety-net funds mostly for low-income mothers, *directly into the 6-figure salaries of executives running a chain of state-funded CPCs theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…
Real talk: Pennsylvania siphons money away from low-income mothers & pregnant people that need TANF & into the 6-figure salaries of men who promise to help the very same people they stripped of funds campaignforaccountability.org/watchdog-calls…
Did you know CPCs outnumber abortion providers in PA by 9:1 thanks in large part to our government directly funding orgs whose entire mission is to prevent access to abortion & contraception?
🚨In PA, anti-abortion extremists run the Health Committee
📈Maternal mortality is up 21.4% here
😳Today, the House Health Comm is advancing 2 bills experts say would INCREASE maternal mortality
Here are details on the cruel & harmful anti-abortion bills that are expected to advance on partisan lines in the PA House Health Comm at 9:30 this morning womenslawproject.org/2021/05/24/act…
LIVESTREAM: Watch Pennsylvania's anti-abortion extremists advance bills that would *increase maternal mortality* here livestream.com/accounts/21610…
🚨 Did you know anti-abortion extremists are running the PA House Health Comm?
On Tues May 25, they're voting on 3 abortion restrictions (instead of doing anything to improve health amid a pandemic & maternal mortality crisis) womenslawproject.org/2021/05/24/act…
HB 118 (Rep. Ryan-R) seeks to:
❌Force you to signify all pregnancy loss starting at a fert. egg, miscarriage or abortion, w/ burial or cremation
❌Force you to pay💲for non-compliance
❌Mandate "fetal death certificate" filed w/ the state, can be obtained by "family members"
HB 914 (Rep. Borowicz-R) seeks to:
❌Criminalize abortion in PA at 6 weeks
❌Charge physicians who do not comply w/ her legislative mandate to provide substandard care w/ a felony
We are pleased to share this GOOD NEWS out of the PA Supreme Court with you: PA Rape Shield Law prevents defendants from submitting evidence of a victim's engagement w/ prostitution as evidence of consent womenslawproject.org/2021/05/19/vic…
In the case, Commonwealth of PA vs. Eric Rogers, the PA Supreme Court considered an appeal filed by a man convicted of multiple violent sexual assaults against women & children in West Philadelphia in 2011-2012
In his appeal, Rogers claimed that he was treated unfairly bc he was not allowed to submit evidence of prior prostitution convictions of two adult victims to support his defense of “financially-induced consent"
.@CNN reported that a police dept in Missouri were routinely sending letters telling rape victims they had 10 days to decide if they wanted to prosecute after #Destroyed