After One Year of Forced Ultrasounds in Virginia, Report Examines Role of CPCs
NPCVF has been conducting investigations into local crisis pregnancy centers since 2010, and has learned that the state’s CPCs, which are largely faith-based, are just as deceptive as ever. CPCs have long been known to provide inaccurate medical information about abortion types and complications, the effectiveness of contraception, and the treatment of sexually transmitted infections, but now they are being touted as a state-approved source for obtaining free ultrasounds that supposedly can be taken to abortion providers in lieu of being made to visit the provider twice.
Two CPCs investigated in the report refused to give patients a copy of their ultrasound when the patients stated they were going to have an abortion; a third said it could take “weeks” to get the documentation. One CPC directly denied a request to have an ultrasound faxed to an abortion provider, saying it doesn’t “support abortion clinics.”
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