lord have mercy on earth
lord have mercy on her
ever since the supreme court's 1973
ruling on roe vs wade made abortion
legal in all 50 states the country has
been bitterly divided
over the last several years pro-life
activism has become increasingly
apparent in the political sphere
in 2013 lawmakers in 32 states proposed
some
476 provisions restricting access to
abortion
many of these regulations have nothing
to do with health but are often petty
restrictions designed to make it
difficult for a large number of legal
health centers that provide abortions to
even stay open
these include strict requirements for
parking lot size room temperature and
even the height of the center's grass
so as clinics across the nation close
the pro-life movement is replacing them
with their own alternative facilities
called crisis pregnancy centers
we headed down to a pro-life
demonstration in dc to learn more about
their strategy
there are thousands of people at this
march for life and it's not just
families from all over america it's
church groups and over half a dozen
republican congressmen thank you for
coming to give voice to our cause of
protecting life
despite the freezing temperature
thousands of pro-lifers came to
washington dc for this year's march for
life marking the 41st anniversary of roe
vs wade
lila rose is a rising star in the
pro-life movement she spent the last
eight years making undercover youtube
videos targeting planned parenthood and
abortion clinics she now advocates for
one of pro-lifer's most effective
strategies against abortion crisis
pregnancy centers
it's really amazing to see thousands of
these community pregnancy centers all
over the country popping up near
abortion clinics or around them they
have varying degrees of services but the
whole intention is to help women and
give them positive options so they're
fighting the day-to-day battle of saying
we can do better as women than abortion
to get a first-hand look at one of these
facilities we headed out to a center in
maryland run by carenet one of the
largest chains of crisis pregnancy
centers in the us carenet has over a
thousand locations across the country
that see at least half a million women a
year we're at a canad center in maryland
right now and roland warren who is the
president of carenet is going to give us
tour of this particular facility to show
us the kind of services that these
places provide clients will come into
these rooms and very comfortable rooms
uh sit down with one of one of the
nurses or
one of the folks that would kind of talk
you through the process and you know
really what you're trying to do is
you're trying to meet that person at
their point of need
after their counseling session the
center offers women a free sonogram
no so this is like a looks like a
doctor's office this is where we do
ultrasounds and again all the services
that that we have at pregnancy centers
are free
while rolling wouldn't let us sit in on
a counseling session he did take us to
the center's biggest room and the last
stop on many pregnant women's visits
so this is all donations
that come from churches and other
supporters of the pregnancy center it
really is a wellspring of compassion
from folks that have a real concern and
they want it's not just about you know
saving a baby it's about raising a child
this service might be a welcome one for
women looking for help with their
pregnancies but crisis pregnancy centers
are targeting women who are seeking
abortions
johnson is an activist like lila rose we
found a clip of abby leading a crisis
pregnancy center training session
in it abby reveals how these centers
misrepresent themselves to draw women
away from actual abortion clinics women
that are seeking abortions women that
are pregnant that are vulnerable
they are going into google and they are
typing pregnancy symptoms
there's a way
in google where you can basically set
that search to your website your website
would be the first one that would come
up
we want to look professional we want to
look business-like and yeah we do kind
of want to look medical the best client
you ever get is one that thinks they're
walking into an abortion clinic the ones
that think you provide abortions the end
goal of all these tactics is tricking
pregnant women and it works
donna is a texas woman facing an
unplanned pregnancy who mistakenly
booked an appointment at the white rose
women's center thinking it was an
abortion clinic the white rose had come
up in that
search i can't remember what i searched
for but i know
definitely had the word abortion i was
like hi how much do you charge for an
abortion
first trimester under 10 weeks
so we don't discuss pricing on the phone
we'd like to come in we'll give you a
pregnancy test for free if you qualify
um a solid gram
and it didn't occur to me
that
there was a catch
and so they took me back
got my medical history
i mean there was a lot of talk before
and a video i had to watch
during the sonogram she
penny
penny was very
um insistent on
god in my life you really need god in
your life
okay
just keep my mouth shut just wait wait
for the sonogram to be over
but it was like 20 minutes all
anti-anti-abortion
and i was on a table
like vulnerable with
a sonogram machine on my stomach like i
couldn't get up
and i remember thinking to myself
there's no possible way this can be
a medical facility
what happened when you tried to leave
she pushed the sonogram machine back
into my stomach
and held it down and i had to physically
remove her hand
and i said we are done here
and then i took everything else off and
i got up and i left the building
penny called me
maybe four or five days later i think
donna this is penny from the white rose
one of the rm sonographers and i'm sorry
you left angry the other day when you
were at our clinic i apologize if i
offended you i certainly didn't mean to
we care about you and your baby we just
want to help all of you
i would like to offer another sonogram
please give me a call let me know how
you're doing penny at the white rose
it's it's awful feeling
being in in that place
and i can't explain why
is you go in asking for help
but not not giving you
the kind of help that you're asking for
i feel like i was late too i feel like i
was tricked
we call the white rose on our own to ask
about getting an abortion
to see if donna's experience was an
honest mistake or if women were
intentionally being misled good evening
hi i was wondering how much you charge
for a first trimester abortion
um i really can't i really can't it's
not excuse me it's a policy that we just
like the people to come in and we can
discuss them and
go forward
donna agreed to go back to the white
rose wearing a hidden camera to show us
first hand what women with unplanned
pregnancies go through during one of
their counseling sessions
even the white rose women's center's
location seems designed to fool women
this is ruth street abortion clinic it's
one of the last few in dallas texas
right across the fence is white rose cpc
crisis pregnancy center
um i had been in
last week to get a sonogram and i had
talked with penny oh okay got it got it
before donna sits with a counselor she
has to watch a video listing all the
potential dangers of having an abortion
even ones with a small chance of
happening
having an incomplete abortion
perforation of your uterus
you're having toxic shock
and other complications with your
possible death the video then warns its
viewers about the mental health problems
it claims result from having an abortion
despite the fact that research by the
american psychological association found
no evidence for such claims
you may require psychological therapy to
treat major depression anxiety disorders
and substance abuse suicide rates for
you who choose abortion
during donna's counseling session they
misdated her pregnancy by two weeks this
is important because the further along a
woman is in her pregnancy the fewer
abortion options she has to choose from
so you are exactly nine wings okay
you know a lot of people it's very hard
to conceptualize
how big a baby is i can actually show
you this is a 12 week old baby
okay uh you're more than welcome to have
this
the counselor went on to list health
risks associated with abortion
one thing is is on the relationship
of
breast cancer linked to abortions okay
every time you have an abortion
your risk
increases to be clear multiple studies
have found no connection whatsoever with
abortion leading to increased risk in
breast cancer
as donna leaves the white rose she
decides to confront the women who
initially deceived her on the phone
and we don't do pricing on the phone
because there is no prices well
if you were misled all i can do is
apologize
for that okay
and again i apologize if you were
duped but we have to fight for each
other that's what god wanted us to do is
we're all supposed to help each other
we went next door to ruth street women's
clinic one of the few abortion clinics
still operating in dallas
bethany herrera has worked here for 21
years
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i want to ask you now about your
neighbors
white rose yes what's the history with
them why is there a crisis pregnancy
center
right next to you well what a great
place for one
many of our patients who have
appointments for a given day
it's almost every day they'll call and
say oh my gosh listen i had an
appointment at like 8 30. i know it's
almost 10 can i still come and say well
did you have a problem no i've been over
here next door and i thought i was at
the wrong place and they didn't tell me
and it's very common for you know
patients to come in and say you know
i went over and and they tried to talk
me out of it and then i called them back
and said can i come back and have my
abortion anyway because even after
they'd been there they still didn't
understand that wasn't a real clinic
they just thought you have to go through
the gauntlet
because
if they were up front with them about
what their purpose was and what they did
no one would go
the white rose repeatedly denied our
request for an interview
but they are far from the only center
using deceptive methods to draw women
into their facilities
katie stack was 20 when she learned she
was pregnant
in looking for an abortion clinic and
looking for somewhere to go i went into
what was a crisis pregnancy center i'd
kind of been looking for information and
had googled like abortion in my hometown
and a website had come up that said that
they offered abortion education so i
went in and spoke with them and got a
lot of
just misinformation things that i knew
were probably not true
after her experience katie founded the
crisis project which is devoted to
exposing the misleading practices used
by crisis pregnancy centers
katie uses a hidden camera to record her
conversations with counselors we wanted
to see her in action so we decided to
tag along so you are going to be
a girl who's pregnant
and i'm going to be your
uncle's wife right aunt-in-law and all i
need to do is work on this american
accent
and what
are some of the ways in which you
make them believe that you're actually
pregnant
well um so i actually have pregnant pee
so i the thing that makes the pos the
test is detecting the hcg hormone so i'm
able to kind of mix a pregnant woman's
urine with my own and then uh the test
comes out positive
so you carry around pregnant pee with
your
like all the time just when i'm doing
this yeah
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we just want you to be sure
you're aware of exactly what you're
doing if you you know decide for
termination
because it's not
it's not the easy thing that people
make it out to be a termination it's not
you know abortion doctors are the most
ethical doctors in the world
number one
you know i mean you
they
they make a lot of money very fast it's
a cash business i mean i'm just being
honest i'm i just i'm just worried about
her being safe
and i'm just wondering if there's like
is there any safe way for her to do it
it could never be safe because it's it's
so totally unnatural i mean your body is
meant to keep that baby
not to
have someone
put an instrument in and rip it out
katie has recorded visits in over 40
centres around the country
at every center she was misled and
provided with false information designed
to scare her out of terminating her
pregnancy
actually seeing reality the reality of
it seeing that little heart just you
know sometimes they turn to drinking
and drugs to help them forget
sometimes they just push it way down and
on the anniversary it comes up and they
have nightmares and things like that if
people die due to an abortion later on a
lot of times they're finding parts of
the fetus in like the lungs or the heart
the misleading practices and
misinformation have become so widespread
new york congresswoman carolyn maloney
is trying to pass the law to crack down
on crisis pregnancy centers and the
false advertising they rely on
how do crisis pregnancy centers affect
the average tax paying american the
average tax paying american would be
shocked to know that part of their money
is going to fund these centers in fact
over the last decade crisis pregnancy
centers have received tens of millions
of dollars in taxpayer money through
state and federal funds this includes
grants unlocked for abstinence education
and faith-based programs i feel
very strongly that you should have truth
and advertising
federal money should not be appropriated
to any organization that is lying in its
advertising misleading and handing out
fraudulent information when the
scientific evidence is to the opposite
side
they purposely advertise that they're
providing abortion services when they're
not be truthful put it in your
advertising we do not provide abortion
services we will help you with your
pregnancy that's what they should say
then if someone wants that service fine
we're a free country people can have
their own beliefs but don't lie about
them the cpc in the larger scheme of
things as part of the overall goal
of taking away a woman's right to choose
there is no right to choose if there
isn't access to choose it's estimated
that as of 2014 crisis pregnancy centers
outnumber abortion clinics five to one
making access to abortion more difficult
than ever
it's all part of the pro-life movement's
plan and why pro-life legislators are
steering millions of taxpayer dollars
into these centers they're not just
talking about ending abortion they're
actually ending it while any politician
can say he or she is pro-life
actions speak louder than words
my goal
and the goal of many of those joining me
here today is to make abortion at any
stage a thing of the past
we will continue to educate and we will
continue to fight for the unborn
and if lawmakers like these have their
way we could see the end of safe and
legal abortion in our lifetime
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