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Crisis Pregnancy Centers
A resolution commending so-called “pregnancy care centers” (or crisis pregnancy centers) operating in Wisconsin has been introduced. What the resolution fails to disclose is that these crisis pregnancy centers:
- DO NOT provide any actual women's health services beyond drug-store pregnancy tests
- ARE NOT staffed by licensed medical professionals, even though they falsely advertise themselves as health care facilities
- ARE NOT regulated either in the content of the “medical” advice or referrals they provide women
Crisis pregnancy centers do not provide women’s health services.
Crisis pregnancy centers include over 100 organizations throughout Wisconsin that falsely advertise themselves as health care facilities. These facilities are not licensed medical centers and do not meet the health care needs of the women they target. While women may get a free drug-store pregnancy test and, in some cases, an ultrasound, women do not receive physical exams, STD treatment, birth control counseling, or prenatal care coordination.
The information crisis pregnancy centers provide is unregulated, biased and oftentimes completely false.
Staff at these facilities offer women medically inaccurate or incomplete information and often use intimidation tactics to dissuade women from obtaining abortions.
Crisis pregnancy centers do nothing to keep women and pregnant women healthy.
Instead, a woman's health is often put at-risk by staff who are opposed to all forms of contraception and focus on pushing an anti-abortion agenda instead of listening to the needs and concerns of the patient who oftentimes need real reproductive health care services like STD testing and well-woman exams.
Crisis pregnancy centers are not health care entities.
These facilities are run by anti-abortion organizations that deceptively market themselves as professional health facilities. The vast majority of staff at these organizations are not medical professionals and are not licensed to provide health care services in Wisconsin, and therefore are not required to comply with medical ethics or operate under Wisconsin's informed consent law.
Crisis pregnancy centers include over 100 organizations throughout Wisconsin that falsely advertise themselves as health care facilities. These facilities are not licensed medical centers and do not meet the health care needs of the women they target. While women may get a free drug-store pregnancy test and, in some cases, an ultrasound, women do not receive physical exams, STD treatment, birth control counseling, or prenatal care coordination.
The information crisis pregnancy centers provide is unregulated, biased and oftentimes completely false.
Staff at these facilities offer women medically inaccurate or incomplete information and often use intimidation tactics to dissuade women from obtaining abortions.
Crisis pregnancy centers do nothing to keep women and pregnant women healthy.
Instead, a woman's health is often put at-risk by staff who are opposed to all forms of contraception and focus on pushing an anti-abortion agenda instead of listening to the needs and concerns of the patient who oftentimes need real reproductive health care services like STD testing and well-woman exams.
Crisis pregnancy centers are not health care entities.
These facilities are run by anti-abortion organizations that deceptively market themselves as professional health facilities. The vast majority of staff at these organizations are not medical professionals and are not licensed to provide health care services in Wisconsin, and therefore are not required to comply with medical ethics or operate under Wisconsin's informed consent law.
Protect Real Women’s Health Centers that provide care for over 30,000 Wisconsin Women
Comprehensive women’s health centers, like Planned Parenthood and other women’s health centers around the state, offer a full range of health services provided by licensed medical professionals. At 52 health centers statewide, women receive cervical and breast cancer screenings, STD testing and treatment, birth control services and prenatal care referrals. These women’s health centers are what truly make the difference to healthy women and families in Wisconsin.