Christian preg. centers freak after California turns tables and forces them to disclose abortion law

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Christian pregnancy centers freak out after California turns tables and forces them to disclose abortion rights

For years, conservatives have been placing roadblocks to make it harder for women to get an abortion, but the state of California has turned the tables, forcing Christian pregnancy crisis centers to notify women of their reproductive rights.

NPR reported this week that a number of so-called pregnancy crisis centers were suing the state over regulations in the Reproductive FACT Act, which would force them to post a notice that abortion is legal in the state.

According to the law, a sign in large 22-point type must be posted in the lobby reading:

California has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services (including all FDA-approved methods of contraception), prenatal care, and abortion for eligible women. To determine whether you qualify, contact the county social services office at [insert the telephone number].

More at http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/christians-pregnancy-centers-freak-out-after-california-turns-tables-and-forces-them-to-disclose-abortion-rights/

What's good for the goose...

[marym625]

1. I'm loving being a California resident

Things just keep happening for the better since I've been here!

[Photographer]

2. Plus one. Consider yourself lucky. I'm a blue dot in a red sea here.

[marym625]

3. that sucks

Been there when I lived in rural, western Kentucky. But mostly lived in Chicago.

Sorry. Hopefully, you'll not be just a dot soon!

[displacedtexan]

9. Me, too!

And it's great to be able to take my dogs along when I go to vote.

[C Moon]

11. We brought ours a couple years ago, but were told they weren't aloud in the voting area.

[displacedtexan]

14. I had already filled out my ballot at home.

I just had to take it to the box in the entry area. The polling place workers love my dogs.

[marym625]

13. Oh too cool!

I didn't know!

[stopbush]

4. The conceit that is Xian elitism has to end.

[smirkymonkey]

8. +1000

Exactly. We need to start beating them with their own stupid stick.

[tanyev]

5. Nice.

[passiveporcupine]

6. I wonder how many will post this

And then place a huge fica plant in front of it?

[blackspade]

7. Ha, Ha!!

[NonMetro]

10. Any Religious Person Who Has A Problem With Telling People The Truth

Is not as moral as they think they are, and they have no business trying to tell other people anything.

[Photographer]

15. It seems to be a Chinese Menu sort of thing for many.

[NonMetro]

30. That, too!

[haele]

12. Considering how these clinics "negotiate" payments, the notice is more about financial assistance.

Some of these "Xtian" clinics recoup the cost in the adoption service they provide. And they certainly don't provide family planning worth a spit other than abstinence counseling.
This forces the clinics to actually provide information that there are pregnancy options, pre-natal care, and follow-up services the state of California will pay for, unlike the forced surrogacy for church adoptions that many of these places push. They don't have to discuss abortion there, but they won't be able to tell a desperate pregnant girl or woman that the only care she will be able to afford is through their clinic following their rules.

Haele

[knightmaar]

16. A few other rules ( a modest proposal ) :

All "pregnancy crisis centres" in California must:

Have hallways at least 14 feet wide, but no wider than 16 feet.
A janitorial closet at 100 sq ft in area
A welcoming area with no fewer 16 chairs
A qualified medical doctor, with hospital privileges, on staff at all times.
Ice cream and pickles.

[SunSeeker]

18. LOL

[valerief]

20. Love it!

[jmowreader]

23. Why no wider than 16 feet?

A Christian-funded "pregnancy crisis center" should not be allowed to own an ultrasound device with image storage, because I wouldn't put it past these bastards to collect a sonograph of a normal 8th-month pregnancy from someone in their church, then show that image to every client.

[knightmaar]

27. Between 14 and 16 feet

Because ... uh ... pregnant women are pretty big ... and, uh, hospital gurneys ... but if you make the hallways too wide, mumble, mumble bad for the environment.

I really don't know the excuses you're supposed to make. These rules are supposed to be onerous and arbitrary.

[Chan790]

28. 14 feet is sufficient to accomodate a hospital bed and a medical team working a patient.

Along with any equipment necessary and a crash cart. So that's why you need 14' hallways.

16' is so wide as to create the illusion that two beds will pass each other easily which creates a hazardous situation that might result in harm to patients or staff. Wider-still hallways present issues of structural stability in an earthquake. That's why you can't have hallways wider than 16'.

(This is all bullshit...but it's passable bullshit. As my friend Charlie used to say, "If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.&quot

[jmowreader]

29. Sounds good to me.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Excellent!! Wish that could go nation-wide.

[turbinetree]

19. Now they know what the rule of law of this country and means ........fair and equal justice.........

Way to go California, 22 point type ----------------nice a big and readable







Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[Dont call me Shirley]

21. As goes California so goes the rest of the country. Thank you California!

[Unrepentant Fenian]

22. I'm happy to hear that, thanks for sharing. nt

[libodem]

24. Good

I'd still like to tell them where to stick the vaginal ultrasound wand.

Busybody buttinskies get to taste their own medicine. How else can activists insinuate themselves in antiabortionists' business? Maybe release heavily edited films about them trying to buy babies?

[lark]

25. Love California.

I loved living there for 18 years but had to move back to the South to help with elderly parents. Now, I can't afford to move back. I still love to visit there, however. Great friends, great scenery, awesome Mexican and Chinese food, ah how I miss it there.

[hifiguy]

26. I supported Jerry Brown back in the 1976 primaries.

and 39 years later he is still laying the smacketh down.

[niyad]

31. I wonder how many will actually obey the law

[jmowreader]

33. I wonder how many microseconds it will take for them to file a religious discrimination suit

[niyad]

36. and there is, of course, that.

[houston16revival]

32. Turn them on their heads

Lots of issues would benefit if we would use this logic

We're always on the defensive

[PufPuf23]

34. Good for California. Good for women. nt

[Serial Mom]

35. Short: State bans Christian PG Crisis Centers from lying - Christians get mad

[StevieM]

37. For the record, nothing makes these places angrier than when a woman decides to raise her baby.

They aren't just anti-abortion. They want EVERY SINGLE CHILD born out of wedlock to be given up for adoption.