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What services does an "anti-abortion clinic" even offer? Sounds a little oxymoronic to me.



They string you along until its too late to get an abortion, with promises of support, then drop you once the baby exists into a vacuum of support.


They lie to vulnerable women about imagined dangers of the procedure like infertility and cancer to trick them into keeping the pregnancy.


I guess they could try to convince the woman not to have an abortion, provide vitamins and adoption help? The customer is ready to abort, so presumably less likely than average to be ready for parenthood, so you can think of plenty of resources to give them (fwiw, I’m not defending the idea of anti-abortion clinics, the concept of which I find pretty odious, but just saying it is easy to imagine the sorts of services they ought to supply).


Fear, uncertainty, doubt and delay.


It’s basically volunteer counseling for expectant mothers who are in trouble. They usually provide a free ultrasound, parenting education, and help finding community resources for financial issues and for adoption. They are anti-abortion because they will not refer to an abortion clinic.

Since Roe was repealed, red states are driving abortion clinics out of business and blue states are driving these centers out of business.




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