Understand the difference between crisis pregnancy centers and licensed facilities that provide reproductive heath care
Warning: crisis pregnancy centers do not provide abortion care or comprehensive reproductive health care
Attorney General Kris Mayes is warning Arizonans that crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) often portray themselves as full-service medical clinics that can provide comprehensive reproductive health care. But really, CPCs are rarely licensed medical facilities. In general, the main goal of CPCs is to persuade patients not to have abortions.
CPCs often use tactics meant to mislead & deceive patients
Centers may:
Advertise free reproductive health care services that lead patients to believe the CPC is a full-service clinic
Deliberately locate near comprehensive health clinics that provide abortion care, leading to patients mistakenly enter the CPC instead of the licensed clinic
Operate with volunteers who wear white coats, so they look like medical professionals, but the volunteers really have no medical background or training
Style their centers and websites to look like full-service medical clinics, when in fact they generally are not licensed medical facilities and thus cannot provide medical services
