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Limited Service Pregnancy Centers: unapologetically selling women lies and deception

This is a battle between “darkness and light,” said Anne Lotierzo, the Executive Director of a crisis pregnancy center located in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Wednesday night NARAL Pro-Choice WA Foundation presented the remarkable documentary 12th & Delaware at the Central Cinema in Seattle.  The Seattle showing was the first stop of a nationwide tour that NARAL Pro-Choice America has organized around the country.  The documentary takes an in depth and up close look at the deceptive practices used by so-called crisis pregnancy centers or Limited Service Pregnancy Centers (LSPCs).  The documentarians spent one year observing the practices of an LSPC in Fort Pierce, Florida.  They also documented how that LSPC’s presence has impacted the abortion clinic located right across the street.  You can find more information about this documentary and the co-directors, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, here.

Wednesday’s presentation was followed by a panel discussion that included presentations from representatives for NARAL Pro-Choice WA, Legal Voice, a woman that visited an LSPC in Tacoma, and a Seattle ob-gyn.  Washington State would be the first state in the nation to hold these LSPCs accountable to the women that seek out their services.  The National Women’s Political Caucus of Washington (NWPC-WA) has endorsed the Limited Service Pregnancy Center Accountability Act.

Blurring the Line between the Separation of Church and State: How the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Influences Health Care Choices for American Women

The culture wars are back and are being propelled by politicians and religious fanatics that do not understand the constitutional mandate separating church and state – forcing their religious agenda on American women at both the state and federal level.

During the beginning days of the Tunisian revolution NPR reported on the remarkable feminist movement in Tunisia.  In many ways, the Tunisian feminist movement is far more advanced than the US feminist movement.  Tunisian women have had access to birth control since 1962 and abortion since 1965, while American women gained access to birth control in 1965 and access to abortion in 1973.  I was struck by the following quote from a long time Tunisian feminist activist:

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The culture wars are back and are being propelled by politicians and religious fanatics that do not understand the constitutional mandate separating church and state – forcing their religious agenda on American women at both the state ...