“They’re in the business of misinforming women about abortion and sexual health matters,” Arthur told Global News. “They’re about undermining women’s charter rights to abortion. And it’s just not right, it’s not appropriate.”
Raquel and her husband were floored when she learned she was seven weeks pregnant, earlier this year. It was unplanned and unwanted.
“I run two very successful businesses. I work 80-plus hours a week. It was just the wrong time for everything,“ said Raquel, who is being identified by her middle name because she fears repercussions in her small community outside of Vancouver.
She had suffered severe postpartum depression after the birth of her second child, and she couldn’t go through that again.
She was absolutely certain she wanted an abortion.
So she searched online for abortion services and a place called Hope for Women in Langley, B.C., was among the first hits. Its website offered “abortion support.” Unbeknownst to her, it was a pregnancy centre that did not offer abortions, but would, she says, try to guilt her into seeing the pregnancy through.
It is one of many crisis pregnancy centres across Canada and the U.S., many of which have been accused by pro-choice and women’s rights groups of spreading misinformation about abortion and using covert methods to dissuade women from terminating their pregnancies.
Yeah I grew up in the Fraser Valley and these are all over the goddamn place. They do honestly look exactly like a place that offers abortion services and unless you already know that there are rich Christians with nothing to fucking do just sitting around waiting to lie to scared pregnant women, you’d never notice.
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