Tuning into Crisis Pregnancy Websites


While MTV’s 16 and Pregnant has become a pretty popular show (has anyone watched episodes? Thoughts? Our Bodies Our Blog has an early review), anti-choice folks are capitalizing on the series having created a website, 16andpregnant.com, to convince visiting show fans that abortion is physically and emotionally harmful.
I’m not positive that the website was created after the show was, but regardless it’s a crisis pregnancy website that’s coming off as a reliable and unbiased source of information that is, of course, completely inaccurate and dangerous. While it’s priority to work towards exposing crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) for the harmful and deceptive faux “clinics” they are (after all, they’re likely the ones creating these sites), what work can be done to address their online presence? After all, the first place a young person will often go for information is the internet.
At least I was happy to find that the MTV show has a section for viewers curious about pregnancy where they lead them to Planned Parenthood for (the right) information. Good on them.
h/t to the reader who alerted us to this!

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