Tell Congress: Stop fake abortion clinics' deceptive and predatory practices

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Tell Congress: Stop fake abortion clinics' deceptive and predatory practices

The petition to Congress reads:

So-called 'crisis pregnancy centers' (CPCs), or fake abortion clinics, are predatory and deceptive, and they put pregnant people's lives at risk by delaying actual health care. Protect women by enacting the Stop Antiabortion Disinformation (SAD) Act without delay!

So-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs)" are anti-abortion centers that provide a free ultrasound to lure women into their facilities, only to misdiagnose the gestational age of the pregnancy, making it more difficult and sometimes even impossible for them to obtain abortion care. They also tell patients lies about abortion causing cancer and other misinformation.

We can't think of a bigger hindrance to reproductive freedom than to allow these fake clinics to proliferate. Already, in the deepest of blue states like California, CPCs outnumber actual abortion clinics.

Even though staff at these anti-abortion centers are primarily white and middle-class, these fake clinics largely target young people, people of color, and lower socioeconomic communities with advertisements and marketing for free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds--only to bombard them with medical disinformation and outright lies to dissuade them from getting an abortion.

The Stop Antiabortion Disinformation (SAD) Act, which was introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and in the Senate by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), would prohibit deceptive advertising for reproductive health services.

Sign the petition today to tell your members of Congress to pass the commonsense SAD Act without delay!