A woman who mistakenly visited an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center said she was met with pushback for seeking an abortion: ‘I just was not ready, and words can’t make you ready for that’
Synopsis
After searching online for a medication abortion in Virginia, Estefanía thought she had made an appointment at the first medical clinic to pop up in her Google search. But at the appointment, staff pried into her personal life and tried to shame her instead of giving her medical care. Estefanía later learned the clinic she had visited was not an abortion clinic, but a so-called crisis pregnancy center. Business Insider tells us her story.
Crisis pregnancy centers like the one Estefanía visited are common in the U.S., far outnumbering abortion clinics. These centers often advertise using deliberately deceptive methods to try to confuse abortion seekers. Because CPCs aren’t licensed medical clinics, they’re not beholden to the same laws that OB-GYNs and reproductive health clinics adhere to. But that hasn’t stopped them from trying to convince women otherwise.
‘I remember immediately being like, what is this then?’ she said. ‘If you’re not telling me how to get an abortion, then what am I doing here?’
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