April 13th was the National Crisis Pregnancy Center Protest Day, an initiative designed by the Feminist Majority Foundation. As part of a “take action” agenda, the George-Soros-funded FMF encouraged students to
• contact their Campus Health Center and if it “refers students to a local CPC, urge them to stop or, at a minimum, to disclose that these facilities are NOT comprehensive healthcare providers and that they do not provide” services such as abortion, family planning, condoms or birth control;
• “Have your group demand a CPC-free campus! Kick CPC ads off campus. If your paper refuses, call attention to the false and deceptive advertising practices of CPCs” and write an article about the nearby CPC for the campus newspaper;
• “Hold a pro-choice rally outside the CPC located nearest to your campus;” and
• sign a petition in favor of the REAL Act, which promotes “abstinence-plus” sex education.
(FMF received $555,000 from the Open Society Institute (OSI) between October 2000 and December 2003, according to public documents).
In response to FMF’s campaign, Students for Life of America urged students to counter the foundation’s efforts by volunteering at local CPCs, “advertis[ing] the resources your local CPC offers on campus,” holding diaper drives, or inviting the local CPC director to talk on campus.
FMF argues that since pregnancy crisis centers don’t offer the “choice” for abortion services, they are “fake clinics.” “They advertise on your campus or in your community with various names, such as ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ and ‘Pregnancy Resource Centers’ among others. They pose as comprehensive women’s health clinics for crisis pregnancies, but offer no abortion services or referrals, and no birth control options,” assert materials released by FMF for their nationwide “Campaign to Expose Fake Clinics.”
“We are here to educate the public about crisis pregnancy centers, specifically First Way crisis center which is located…conveniently right across the street from a Planned Parenthood,” said one student protestor in a video produced by the University of Oregon Students for Choice. “So we’re here to let these people know that these are not medical clinics and they should not be posing as medical clinics and they’re out to deceive women.”
The 1st Way website openly states under the “about us: FAQs” section that they give referrals to adoption agencies and doctors, but not abortion clinics and the center identifies itself as “an affiliate” of a pro-life organization, the “the National Life Center of Woodbury, NJ.”
Before students champion Planned Parenthood as a medically-qualified, nonpartial abortion provider, they may want to consider recent exposés on illegal actions taken by Planned Parenthood staff.
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) student Lila Rose, president of Live Action, went to several clinics in Indiana posing as a 13-year-old who had gotten pregnant with her 31-year old boyfriend, a felony according to state law.
In the video of the Bloomington, Indiana encounter, “Janet” tells her that “I don’t care how old he is” and then refers her to the surrounding states to get around parental consent laws.
“The surrounding states. Do you have access to the internet?” asks Janet. “The surrounding states don’t have parental consent.”
In another video, the Indiana-based Planned Parenthood staffer answers, “Okay, I didn’t hear the age. I don’t want to know the age…It could be reported as rape.”
Rose’s footage led to the firing and suspension of PP employees as well as an investigation by the Attorney General of Indiana.
More recently, Live Action released another three videos of Arizona-based Planned Parenthood clinics failing to report statutory rape when one investigator posed as a 15-year-old girl impregnated by a 22-year-old male. On March 24 the non-profit announced that the Attorney General of Arizona had begun investigating Planned Parenthood.
Bethany Stotts is a staff writer at Accuracy in Academia.
