The anti-choice movement has for years tried to restrict, control, and manipulate the information doctors give women facing unplanned pregnancies.  Unable to shut down legitimate public-health clinics, they are instead building a network across the country of parallel fake clinics - so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs).  While there are centers that do not deceive women or attempt to coerce them into making choices against their will, many CPCs use deceptive and intimidating practices to prevent women from accessing the full range of reproductive-health options.  Recently, these centers have been trying to further their anti-choice persuasion efforts by seeking—and often receiving—state or federal funding. 

Women are entitled to accurate, comprehensive and unbiased medical information with which they can make their own decisions.  The government should support legitimate, comprehensive reproductive-health clinics, rather than centers whose goals are to prevent women from exercising their constitutionally protected right to choose.

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