A July 9 CNSNews.com article by Penny Starr offers another skewed view of crisis pregnancy clinics, this asserting that a new congressional bill will “restrict the speech of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers by regulating the advertising they do.”
In fact, all the bill does is forbid ads that “create the impression that such person is a provider of abortion services if such person does not provide abortion services.” While Starr quotes this provision in herarticle, at no point does she or any of the “pro-life” people she quotes explain how that provision equates to “restricting the speech of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers.”
As she has before, Starr omits the fact that numerous crisis pregnancy centers have been found to give out misleading or false information about abortion or even acted in a “controlling and intimidating” manner to the client. Starr did quote from the websites of NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood for their views on crisis pregnancy clinics, as well as a press release from the member of Congress who introduced the legislation, but she appears not to have actually talked to anyone who supports the legislation.