Pregnancy News - States react to crisis pregnancy centers (AP via Yahoo! News)

At similar pregnancy resource centers in small towns and big cities nationwide, volunteers who believe abortion is murder advise women that the procedure has been linked to breast cancer and infertility. Some states, like Oregon and New York, are trying to increase oversight of the crisis pregnancy centers out of concern that the information they provide about abortion may be biased or simply wrong. Abortion rights groups have received cool receptions in states where they have pressed for legislation to monitor crisis pregnancy centers, regulate the information they provide, and require tighter oversight and disclosure from centers that offer free ultrasounds. The proposed Oregon legislation would require the state Health Department to collect data on any state funding going to crisis pregnancy centers, whether the centers observe medical privacy rules and if “intentionally misleading or medically and factually inaccurate information is given to clients at alternative-to-abortion organizations. read more

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