Is anyone else just… exhausted?
Everyone living in the USA needs to inform themselves about “crisis pregnancy centers.” They’re not legitimate medical facilities and typically only have a nurse on staff, if even that.
“Crisis pregnancy centers” are UNREGULATED organizations that present themselves like medical facilities and often offer medical advice and information, but they are staffed by volunteers many of whom are not medical professionals, typically funded by churches and pro-life orgs, and exist to convince people not to have abortions. They often give “patients” misinformation and lies about abortion, contraception, and pregnancy.
These organizations often take the place of legitimate medical facilities particularly in impoverished areas despite being essentially fake medical clinics that offer few services and that are not bound to ethical or sanitary guidelines of real clinics.
A “crisis pregnancy center” in Kentucky was recently in the news because a nurse who volunteered there found that trans-vaginal ultrasound probes were being sanitized using disinfectant that was both expired and totally ineffective against HPV, a common sexually transmitted infection, meaning the clinic could have given their clients STIs with their shitty unregulated sanitation practices.
My MOM visited one of these “centers” when she was pregnant with me (a planned and wanted pregnancy) because she didn’t know it was fake and unregulated!
People deserve real healthcare, not lies, randos dressed up in white coats, and disease-spreading, unsterilized equipment like it’s the 1700s.
