The storefront "Crisis Pregnancy Center" is a bad enough phenomenon...a bait and switch charade making pregnant women and girls believe they are places one can go for pregnancy counseling, including abortion as an option, only to find out they exist to convince them not to terminate a pregnancy. Cirisis pregnancy centers often use guilt and coercive methods to the point of bullying. No one should be surprised that they've now taken this tactic to the internet.
Anti-Abortion Group Uses Google Ads To Misdirect Women Seeking Abortions
An anti-abortion group called Online for Life is buying up Google ad space as part of a campaign to deliberately mislead and misdirect women seeking information about abortions on the internet, the Washington Independent reported Friday. In order to “intercept” “abortion-determined” women who try to find service providers online, the Texas-based group has made their deceptive ads some of the first hits women see when they use Google to search for “abortion” in certain cities. Several of the ads trick women by appearing to offer full-service medical counseling, but instead re-route them to “crisis pregnancy centers” that perform ultrasounds and try to scare women out of having abortions by telling them false or misleading information about the risks of the procedure.
That's a new term I haven't heard before " abortion determined". Interesting that on their website they state plainly:
* Online for Life is a ministry of Media Revolution Ministries, Inc. (MRM), which is recognized as a Section 501(c)(3) public charity by the IRS. Contributions to MRM are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. To honor your intent in supporting Online for Life, it will update the Lives Saved page on this website daily.
Yet another reason for removing tax exemption from churches, ministries etc. Sorry Texas kosmunity members but why am I not surprised this outfit's from there? They're all entrepreneurial too:
They even claim to be able to put a dollar amount on how much its costs to prevent an abortion — $676. Donors can “save three babies from abortion” by giving the group $2,028. Life News editorializes, “It costs less than a Bowflex to save a life.” According to the group’s website, they are affiliated with the socially conservative Focus on the Family.
And there's a payment plan on their site!
Imagine if they spent even half of this money on helping actual children or providing pre-natal care to women who choose to carry to term! Seems to me some long haired dude from a famous book talked a lot about that kind of stuff.
Not much of diary. I know. But thought it was worth sharing.