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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 04/18/2009 : 12:56:52
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These are some truely evil people. At Glendale's Avenues Pregnancy Clinic, women go in for a pregnancy test and come out fearing eternal damnation
By Tina Dupuy 04/16/2009
I'm sitting in a generic-looking clinic waiting room. The space is clean. Empty. Quiet. The all-purpose art on the walls matches the neutral-colored couches. A receptionist at the office window, a 30-something brunette clad in scrubs and a sensible cardigan, sits at a desk and appears busy.It looks like any doctor's office. Totally normal.
I'm filling out a form. It's only two pages long and doesn't ask the usual personal and medical information. One page asks for my name, contact info, date of birth and date of my last period. The other is a disclosure form. It notifies me that the people I'm about to talk to do not have psychological degrees and have not gone to medical school. The volunteers, the form says, should not be considered a substitute for professional counseling. Oh, and the pregnancy test I'm about to take, the form tells me, should not be considered a clinical diagnosis.
I'm at Avenues in Glendale, which — despite all the above disclaimers — styles itself a “pregnancy clinic.”
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 04/18/2009 : 13:14:01 [Permalink]
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I hate to break this to you filthy but that practice is as old as the "right to life" movement itself. We had one of those bogus clinics right down the street from us until very recently. (It probably relocated due to rising rents in this area.) Michelle and I have often pondered about what we could do about that place.
For more info see:
Beware of Anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers
See also:
Fake Abortion Clinics Deceive Women |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/18/2009 : 15:26:59 [Permalink]
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These fake clinics are far too common, and all too disgusting.
At the very least they should be required to have real medical personnel. Right now, their professional budget is limited to providing scrubs as disguises to help the church members to pose as medical pros. If they were required by law to have real doctors and nurses, there would be far fewer of these fake "clinics."
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 04/19/2009 : 05:13:24 [Permalink]
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Yeah, I know; they're everywhere. The reason I posted it at all is because these dirt-wads are accredited by the State of California, which I find as outrageous as the practice itself. Should'a gone into depth on it. Or put it in Politics.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 04/19/2009 : 13:10:25 [Permalink]
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| Total bastards, but what do you expect from people who thank jeebus every time an abortion doctor is shot or a clinic bombed? They have no scruples whatsoever, but claim that atheism has no moral compass. If it ever happens here in Toronto I'll be picketing and handing out brochures. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2009 : 20:02:20 [Permalink]
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Some states actually fund these fake clinics. Such funding should be a priority target for abortion rights and secularist groups.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2009 : 07:13:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Some states actually fund these fake clinics. Such funding should be a priority target for abortion rights and secularist groups.
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I just don't see how that is not a violation of the establishment clause. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 04/20/2009 : 07:47:47 [Permalink]
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I guess that provided that the association provide other services in addition to the brainwashing religious countervailing, it is kosher as the State would be officially financing these operations. |
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The old bait & switch
