The state of reproductive rights in Canada
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On Tuesday, Wellness Within Nova Scotia issued a call to the provincial government to combat misinformation about abortion care and other reproductive services.
The health and justice organization pointed to Crisis Pregnancy Centres (CPCs) as a leading proponent of misleading and false information about abortions.
According to Wellness Within, CPCs are unlicensed pregnancy counselling centres — often affiliated with religious causes — that promote their business as a full-service health centre in an effort to conceal an anti-abortion agenda.
“When individuals go to these clinics, they believe they are being counselled on their reproductive options but the services they receive are biased and trying to dissuade them from having an abortion,” the organization wrote in their call to the government.
Wellness Within is also following in the footsteps of the ARCC in calling for regulations for CPCs, arguing they should be legally required to disclose their anti-choice and religious stances to prospective clients, be prohibited from misleading advertising and teaching sex education in public schools, and have charitable tax statuses revoked when applicable.
Additionally, the organizations say CPCs should no longer be able to provide unregulated medical services like ultrasounds, and that they should not be included on referral lists by legitimate medical facilities.”