“Moral Monday” events organized by the North Carolina NAACP and local clergy have brought together thousands of citizens to express growing discontent with the new conservative majority’s focus on tax breaks and handouts for the wealthy at the expense of social services.
The war on Planned Parenthood is now reaching epic proportions, as multiple states try to defund existing clinics and block new ones from opening.
North Carolina to Give Quarter of a Million Dollars in Women’s Health Funding to Deceptive ‘Clinics’
The funding, which is usually used to provide medical care and contraceptive coverage for poor and uninsured women who do not qualify for Medicaid, would instead go to an umbrella group for about half of the state’s CPCs.
Spokespeople for the CPC, which shares a name similar to that of the reproductive health clinic, avoided giving a straight answer as to whether the next-door location was a coincidence or if it was intended to confuse patients on their way to the clinic.
With less access to quality preventive care, and more money heading to deceptive crisis pregnancy centers, the 2013 legislative session was another tough one for women.
An anti-choice counseling group told a federal court that the Arkansas 12-week ban should be upheld because it’s good for their business.
Disclosure in every outlet in which they advertise, the potential for fines if they don’t properly adhere to the law: in many ways, CPCs are being asked to behave like reproductive health-care clinics.
Ohio anti-choicers would rather that women get misinformation than real reproductive health care.
CPCs in the state are defending their right to lie in the face of a new Oregon bill.
It is now up to the governor to sign or veto the bill. Does he really want to pay for another court challenge?
