{"id":1641071,"date":"2022-09-14T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641071"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:03:23","slug":"democrats-ghoulish-attacks-on-pregnancy-centers-ignore-who-is-really-lying-to-women-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-ghoulish-attacks-on-pregnancy-centers-ignore-who-is-really-lying-to-women-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 Ghoulish Attacks On Pregnancy Centers Ignore Who Is Really Lying To Women: Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-ghoulish-attacks-on-pregnancy-centers-ignore-who-is-really-lying-to-women-planned-parenthood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641071&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Lindsey Graham is forcing Democrats to either admit their abortion extremism or vote for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgraham.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/3065785d-86b8-4d36-986a-72aa1c8f100c\/protecting-pain-capable-unborn-children-from-late-term-abortions-act-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legislation<\/a> that would enact a nationwide ban at 15 weeks of pregnancy, a limit on par with most European countries. But before this week\u2019s outcry over Graham\u2019s proposed 15-week ban, Democratic lawmakers were already revealing just how far they will go to appease the pro-abortion groups from which they receive significant campaign contributions.  <\/p>\n<p>Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., along with Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., and Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., escalated the ghoulish attacks on pregnant women and crisis pregnancy centers with the introduction of the \u201cStop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act.\u201d While there is certainly an abundance of abortion disinformation harming women and children in this country, it\u2019s not coming from pro-lifers and pro-life organizations serving those women and children. <\/p>\n<p>Warren and her fellow Democrat lawmakers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/warren-maloney-bonamici-menendez-introduce-legislation-to-stop-anti-abortion-disinformation-by-crisis-pregnancy-centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smearing<\/a> pregnancy resource centers as \u201cfake clinics\u201d that \u201cmislead women about reproductive health care.\u201d Their bill would order the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to \u201ccrack down\u201d on these centers by targeting and penalizing them for anything the FTC determines is \u201cmisleading advertising.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 attacks on pregnancy centers and clinics reveal just how wicked their motives are when you consider how millions of women facing unplanned pregnancies are served every year by these community-based, nonprofit organizations. The National Institute of Family &#038; Life Advocates (NIFLA) estimates that U.S. pregnancy centers provide more than $267 million worth of free essential support services including medical services (pregnancy testing, ultrasound, and STI testing), parenting classes, maternity clothes, baby clothes, formula, and diapers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen who have been served by pregnancy help organizations overwhelmingly give them satisfactory ratings,\u201d\u00a0Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International, told The Federalist. \u201cWomen are smart, capable beings who deserve to have all the information about their pregnancy options so they can make informed decisions about their futures,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The real deception and lying to women about their options come from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. Of course, Democrats would only be hurting their own pocketbooks to admit that or to suggest abortion facilities also be investigated by the FTC. <\/p>\n<h2>Planned Parenthood\u2019s Misinformation<\/h2>\n<p>If the FTC wanted to seriously investigate abortion misinformation, Planned Parenthood would be a good place to start. The organization performs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/learn\/3percent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1 in 3<\/a> abortions in the United States and has built its business on billions of taxpayer dollars, making it worthy of scrutiny no matter your politics.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood brands itself as offering \u201chealth care,\u201d but by admission via its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/uploads\/filer_public\/40\/8f\/408fc2ad-c8c2-48da-ad87-be5cc257d370\/211214-ppfa-annualreport-20-21-c3-digital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2020-2021 annual report<\/a>, the organization\u2019s emphasized service of choice is abortion. Last year they performed 383,460 abortions. That number dwarfs the number of prenatal services, 8,775, and adoption referrals, 1,940, provided. <\/p>\n<p>Another popular lie Planned Parenthood often hides behind is the claim that it provides \u201ccancer screenings,\u201d particularly via mammograms. Planned Parenthood may offer breast exams and pap smear tests, but it is a fabrication to say they provide mammograms, which would require a particular certification they don\u2019t have. Yet, pro-abortion advocates like former Planned Parenthood President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aq0kBkUZbvQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cecile Richards<\/a>, top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/false-info-obama-admin-defends-planned-parenthood-because-of-mammograms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HHS officials<\/a>, and even former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2015\/07\/planned-parenthoods-mammogram-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Barack Obama<\/a> have been caught spreading the popular myth. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, it has been documented through <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/02\/24\/former-planned-parenthood-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">testimonies<\/a> of former Planned Parenthood employees as well as surveys of post-abortive women that Planned Parenthood workers often lie to women about the developmental state of their unborn babies. According to one <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicquotes.com\/abortion-counseling-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>, 90 percent of women said they were \u201cnot given enough information to make an informed decision\u201d and 95 percent said Planned Parenthood counselors gave \u201clittle or no biological information about the fetus which the abortion would destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NIFLA\u2019s Vice President of Legal Affairs Anne O\u2019Connor told The Federalist that bills similar to Warren\u2019s \u201cStop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act\u201d have been introduced for decades but never gain any momentum because they are clearly political ploys that only hurt women and children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPregnancy centers provide a safe, non-conflicted space for a woman to assess the information about all her choices and make an informed decision that\u2019s right for her. These centers are there for women no matter what they choose,\u201d O\u2019Connor said. \u201cThey don\u2019t provide or refer for abortions and they are clear about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 attacks on pregnancy centers are not just nefarious but misplaced. Planned Parenthood is the one lying to women about their options, not pro-lifers. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Madeline Osburn is managing editor at The Federalist. 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