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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Part 2 - Pro-abortion report - uses US experience of PCCs

Further to Part 1 - Pro-abortion report - anti-Christian hate speech? I'd like to address the fact that Joyce Arthur (the pro-abortion author) uses numerous footnotes that have no bearing on the Canadian experience of Pregnancy Care Centres. They are used to bolster the pro-abortion author's claim that Canadian PCCs deceive and misinform women. 

Note 1: The term Crisis Pregnancy Centres (CPCs) is used interchangeably with Pregnancy Care Centres (PCCs).

Note 2: Many references are to the American experience with CPCs. This is illogical. Two separate countries, two separate situations. They are not the same. Therefore these references should be ignored.

Note 3: Abortion Rights Coalition, Action Canada for Sexual Health, and the BC Humanist association are all fundamentalist biased pro-abortion references. Therefore all these references should be ignored.

Note 4: A majority of the footnotes are links to the PCCs themselves, that the pro-abortion author is looking at. The pro-abortion author sees all manner of bogeymen in these care centres, even though by her own admission she bases all of her so-called "review" of these centres, solely on what she sees on their websites. The pro-abortion author notes that there were no site visits or discussions with centre staff. How can you properly investigate any organization solely on what their website says? You can't.

Note 5: Nine references to Bryant, an American, who writes solely on CPCs in the US. Therefore all these references should be ignored.

Note 6: Sixteen references to Hussey, an American who writes solely on CPCs in the US. Therefore all these references should be ignored.

Note 7: Two references are to articles in Cosmopolitan magazine. These references are about American experience about CPCs. Therefore these references should be ignored.

From the Study aims and objectives:

'The aim of this study was to determine the presence of any deception or misinformation on the websites of Canadian “crisis pregnancy centres,” or CPCs, and compare the results to a similar study we conducted in 2016 to better understand changes over time. CPCs often try to prevent pregnant people from obtaining an abortion or accessing birth control through a variety of tactics that include deception and the dissemination of misinformation.1 This contributes to abortion stigma and interferes with people’s ability to make a fully informed decision about an unwanted pregnancy."  [why bother pretending "to determine the presence of any deception or misinformation"since it's already the pro-abortion author's foregone conclusion that CPCs deceive and misinform women? As well, her 2016 report has also been refuted.] 

Some details below. It's all kind of boring, but necessary. 

Footnotes 1-3 are references to the American/pro-abortion situation. (The pro-abortion author relies heavily on the American experience with CPCs but is not relevant to the Canadian experience.)

1 Bryant AG & Swartz JJ (2018 March). “Why crisis pregnancy centers are legal but unethical.” AMA Journal of Ethics, 20(3), 269–277. https://doi.org/10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.pfor1-1803

2 College of Public Health at the University of Georgia (2022). “Crisis pregnancy center map.” https://crisispregnancycentermap.com

3 Kirstein M, et al. (2022 October). “100 days post-Roe: At least 66 clinics across 15 US states have stopped offering abortion care.”Guttmacher Institute. https://tinyurl.com/4crx6vn5 

Footnote 8 contains 11 references. All of these refer to the American and pro-abortion viewpoint and thus have no bearing on Canada's situation. Therefore they should be ignored.

See inter alia (by date): Montoya MN, Judge-Golden C, Swartz JJ (2022 June 8). “The Problems with Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Reviewing the Literature and Identifying New Directions for Future Research.” Int J Womens Health. 2022; 14: 757–763. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9189146/; McKenna J and Murtha T (2021 October 28). “Designed to deceive: A study of the crisis pregnancy center industry in nine states.” The Alliance: State Advocates for Women’s Rights & Gender Equality. https://tinyurl.com/2edbj9yc; Polcyn C, et al. (2020 July 27). “Truth and transparency in crisis pregnancy centers.” Women’s Health Reports, 1, 224–226. https://doi.org/10.1089/whr.2020.0057; Kimport K (2020 February). “Pregnant women’s reasons for and experiences of visiting antiabortion pregnancy resource centers.” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 52(1), 49–56. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32103617/; Swartzendruber A, et al. (2019 October) “Crisis pregnancy centers in the United States: Lack of adherence to medical and ethical practice standards; A joint position statement of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.” Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 32, 563–566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2019.10.008; NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut Foundation (2018). “Crisis pregnancy centers: A threat to reproductive freedom.” https://tinyurl.com/4ynznaff; Swartzendruber A (2017 November). “A study of information and misinformation presented on the websites of crisis pregnancy centers in Georgia.” Scholars Strategy Network. http://tiny.cc/c864vz; Bryant & Swartz 2018; Winter M (2015 July 14). “What some pregnancy centers are really saying to women with unplanned pregnancies.” https://tinyurl.com/yc257huf; Winter M (2015 April 6). “‘Save the mother, save the baby’: An inside look at a pregnancy center conference.” Cosmopolitan. https://tinyurl.com/327fkjk9; McIntire L (2015 January). “Crisis pregnancy centers lie: the insidious threat to reproductive freedom.” NARAL Pro-Choice America. https://tinyurl.com/u629azpr; Waxman HA [prepared for] (2006 July). “False and misleading health information provided by federally funded pregnancy resource centers.” United States House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform – Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division. www.motherjones.com/files/waxman2.pdf;   

Footnotes 9-17 are a repeat from pro-abortion's 2016 report. All of these were refuted in my 2017 rebuttal of this report https://run-with-life.blogspot.com/2017/05/abortion-rights-coalition-of-canada_10.html, a rebuttal the pro-abortion author ignores. She also ignores CAPPS's rebuttal of her 2009 report which corrects numerous of her false allegations about these centres. Therefore these references should be ignored.

9 CTV (2000 November 5). “The Pretenders.” W-Five documentary news program.

10 Arthur J (2009 January). “Exposing crisis pregnancy centres in British Columbia.” Pro-Choice Action Network. www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/Exposing-CPCs-in-BC.pdf.

11 Smith J (2010). “Deception used in counselling women against abortion.” The Star. https://tinyurl.com/ykascusf

12 Tilley S (2011). “Are anti-choice crisis pregnancy centres targeting female students on Ontario university campuses?” Student research paper, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. www.arcc-cdac.ca/media/2020/06/CPCs-Universities-2011-Sara-Tilley.pdf

13 Woodward J (2012 April 27). “Surrey charity gives dubious abortion advice: Investigation.” CTV News Vancouver. https://tinyurl.com/d873u966

14 Khandaker T (2013 June 26). “Phony abortion clinics In Canada are scaring women with lies.” VICE. https://tinyurl.com/yh6sckbp

15 Gonin A, Pronovost V, & Blais M (2014). “Enjeux éthiques de l’intervention auprès de femmes vivant une grossesse imprévue au Québec: Discours et pratiques de ressources anti-choix et pro-choix – Rapport de recherche.” [“Ethical Issues of intervention with unplanned pregnancy experienced by women living in Quebec: Anti-choice and pro-choice discourse and resource practices – Research report.”] Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and Fédération du Québec pour le planning des naissances (FQPN). https://tinyurl.com/4f6eh5s3

16 FQPN – Fédération du Québec pour le planning des naissances (2014). “Mieux comprendre les ressources conseil grossesse anti-choix au Québec : Outil d’information, de réflexion et pistes de recommandation.” [Translation: “To better understand anti-choice pregnancy counselling resources in Quebec: A tool for information, reflection and tracking recommendations”]. https://api.fqpn.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RESS_CG_WEB_FIN.pdf

17 LaRoche KJ, & Foster AM (2015 November). “Toll free but not judgment free: Evaluating postabortion support services in Ontario.” Contraception, 92(5), 469–474. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26260687

18 Arthur J, et al. (2016 May). “Review of ‘crisis pregnancy centre’ websites in Canada.” ARCC. https://tinyurl.com/bddv2ybr (already refuted by me in 2017)

Footnote 19 is interesting. Li H. (2019). “Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Canada and Reproductive Justice Organizations’ Responses.” Global Journal of Health Science. Vol. 11, No. 2. https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/gjhs/article/view/0/38088

Li writes (notice the bit emphasized below):

"A 2016 study by the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC), Review of "Crisis Pregnancy Centre" Websites in Canada (Arthur et al., 2016), drew significant attention from both sides of the Canadian “abortion war.” An anti-abortion activist described the study as “witch hunts” (Maloney, 2017). A humanist association referred to it as “a hugely important study” (BC Humanist Association, 2016); similarly, a feminist organization considered it “important to keep in mind” (Laurier Brantford Women's Centre, 2016). One of the very few reports that investigate Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in Canada, this report specifically focuses on how these centers’ websites distribute misinformation and withhold facts. Reproductive justice (RJ) activists found this report significantly constructive because CPCs now outnumber abortion providers in Canada, thus posing a threat to women’s reproductive freedom."

This was the only reference I found anywhere in the report, or in any of the footnotes, or any of the references, from a pro-life person (me). This one sentence, which doesn't actually say anything. Nothing about all of the false allegations I refuted, or anything else from any other pro-life person.

And yes, the pro-abortion author has been, is now, and always will be, on a witch hunt towards Pregnancy Care Centres, since they will not refer women for abortions.

Some might say, why bother with the myths and false allegations written by the pro-abortion author at all? Why not just ignore them? The answer is, of course, we do so at our peril. The media and pro-choice and pro-abortion people frequently (as in, all the time) refer to the pro-abortion author's so-called "research". She knows she can write her allegations with impunity. Very few people contradict her vitriol. Heck even Justin Trudeau quotes from her play book. Pro-abortion people never ever refer to those of us who refute her writings (as in the example above). So it is important that we do what we can to set the record straight.

Below are examples of others quoting the pro-abortion author's work.

20 (Quotes pro-abortion author) Browne R (2019 June 1). “Pro-choice advocates want crisis pregnancy centres defunded and regulated.” Global News. https://globalnews.ca/news/5328797/crisis-pregnancy-centres-abortion/

21 (Quotes pro-abortion authorMitchell K (2019). “Access in Alberta: Understanding barriers to abortion and the role of crisis pregnancy centres.” In Political Challenges and Digital Frontiers Reproductive Health and Services in Southern Alberta. Eds. K Mitchell, C Giles, and C Williams. Parkland Institute, pp. 39–60. https://tinyurl.com/2p9fhneb (14 references to ARCC, including the pro-abortion 's 2009 and 2016 debunked reports.)

22 (Pro-abortion authorMurdoch A (2020). “Analyzing the communication methods of crisis pregnancy centres: A conventional content analysis.” Master’s thesis, Western Universityhttps://tinyurl.com/mr3cszax

Interesting enough, Murdoch states her own pro-abortion bias:

"I went into this work with a bias, in that I am a pro choice woman. I was raised in a pro-choice household, and I have done previous work in the area of reproductive justice...”

Murdoch also has 37 references to Bryant who writes of the American experience with PCCs and so is not relevant to Canada.

23 (Quotes pro-abortion authorUpshaw B (2022 March). “Comparative analysis of crisis pregnancy centres – Canada and international.” Memo prepared for ARCC through PBSC-UNB. https://tinyurl.com/h4sww64z (Refers to 2016 report)

24 (Quotes pro-abortion author). Rudrum S. (2023 December 21). “Student encounters with a campus crisis pregnancy centre: Choice, reproductive justice and sexual and reproductive health supports.” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs29754 (Refers to 2016 report)

25 to 28 all fundamentalist pro-abortion groups, hell bent on getting rid of Pregnancy Care Centres.

25 Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights (2019 September 19). “Access at a glance: Abortion services in Canada.https://tinyurl.com/2wbn7p7r

26 ARCC (2021 June). “Anti-choice private member bills and motions introduced in Canada since 1987.” www.arcc-cdac.ca/presentations-anti-bills/

27 Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights 2019.

28 ARCC (2022 November). “The refusal to provide health care in Canada.” https://tinyurl.com/3vdfs445

29-30 (American experience, not pertinent to Canada) Hussey LS (2020). The pro-life pregnancy help movement: Serving women or saving babies? USA: University Press of Kansas, p.2

33, 34, 36, 37, 44 Hussey, American experience, not pertinent to Canada, ignore

40, 41, 45, Bryant, American experience, not pertinent to Canada, ignore

46 BCHA (link not provided) BC Humanist Association is pro-abortion

47, 48 (pro-abortion author)

The pro-abortion author also refers to other research regarding the abortion breast cancer (ABC) link, psychological effects of abortion, etc, all of which were refuted in CAPSS rebuttal of the 2009 report.

Sorry for the length. It had to be done.

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