Supreme Court takes up challenge by pregnancy centers
Source: CBS
AP March 20, 2018, 8:16 AM
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The case being argued Tuesday involves information required by a state law that the centers must provide clients about the availability of contraception, abortion and pre-natal care, at little or no cost. Centers that are unlicensed also must post a sign that says so.
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The outcome also could affect laws in other states that seek to regulate doctors' speech.
In Louisiana, Texas and Wisconsin, doctors must display a sonogram and describe the fetus to most pregnant women considering an abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. Similar laws have been blocked in Kentucky, North Carolina and Oklahoma.
Doctors' speech has also been an issue in non-abortion cases. A federal appeals court struck down parts of a 2011 Florida law that sought to prohibit doctors from talking about gun safety with their patients. Under the law, doctors faced fines and the possible loss of their medical licenses for discussing guns with patients.........................................
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-takes-up-challenge-by-pregnancy-centers/
NARAL Missouri @NARALMissouri
19h19 hours ago
Missourians, contact @SenatorDixon and @RepEngler and tell them to #EndTheLies! Also, if you haven't yet, sign our petition >> http://ow.ly/SSfk30iZLbJ
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for NIFLA v. Bercerra on March 20th; the first major women's rights case to be heard since the confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch. In this case, the court will be hearing arguments in support of fake women's health centers. These centers exist in all 50 states and prey on women at a vulnerable moment in their lives by using deceptive advertising, misleading websites, and a variety of other dishonest tactics to lure women in as they are seeking information about their full range of healthcare options.
Join hundreds of activists at the Supreme Court to tell fake women's health centers to #EndTheLies on March 20th!
They prey on women in vulnerable positions seeking health care by posing as unbiased medical clinics, often referred to as "crisis pregnancy centers". Stand up and tell these clinics to stop deceiving patients, lying about medical facts, and pretending to be real medical facilities.
On March 20th, we demand honest, professional, unbiased medical care!
Learn more: www.endthelies.com...................................
Will SCOTUS Let Crisis Pregnancy Centers Keep Lying? https://www.damemagazine.com/2018/03/13/will-scotus-let-crisis-pregnancy-centers-keep-lying/ #StoptheLies
NARAL Verified account @NARAL
2h2 hours ago
Fake women's health clinics have a well-documented history of intentionally misleading & deceiving women, particularly black women. @JSwiftEstes on what it was like to be 16, alone & scared—and unknowingly at a fake clinic: http://bit.ly/2G8qk8o #EndTheLies #ExposeFakeClinics
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23h23 hours ago
“The judgment and shame that Mel experienced at the fake clinic she attended for her pregnancy test is sadly too common at...fake clinics designed to lie to women and shame them into carrying pregnancies to term.” ~@NARALMissouri
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How come anytime I read the word "fake" in the past 18 months my mind automatically knows it is going to be about some GOP BS ?!?
