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A new development in the conservative fight against abortion rights is something called a crisis pregnancy center (CPC), and it’s rearing its strange and ugly head in cities around the country. What’s more, many of these centers have focused specifically on the pregnancies of women of color, whose wombs, you might remember, have been in the public eye for the past several weeks. Hard on the heels of a controversial billboard in New York City proclaiming that the most dangerous place for Black children is their mother’s womb, South Dakota has passed a new law that increases the waiting period for an abortion from one day to three days and forces women who’ve decided to get an abortion to go to a CPC. Though the name Crisis Pregnancy Center is vague, critics say it’s very clear what the centers are designed to talk women out of having abortions. This article talks about the problem that New York is having with the Crisis Pregnancy Centers. The problem is that the CPC’s are lying to women and teens to get them to visit their facilities. While the mothers are at the facility the CPC people are telling the women things that are not true about abortion, things like “abortions can cause breast cancer later on in life, and that abortions make it difficult to get pregnant later on in life.” New York City is having legislation on this topic and if it it’s passed then CPC’s will be forced to tell everyone that they have been lying about the facility. Doing so women will know what kind of place they are getting involved in before they arrive at the facility. This article is about a 17 year old girl who once had dreams of college and a great career, but once she became pregnant all those dreams and goals vanished. The problem with this article is that there are a much higher number of teen pregnancies in the United States. In 2006 the teen pregnancy rate increased 3%. The highest teen birth rates are in the South and Southwest. Mississippi has had the highest teen birth rate since 2008. Abstinence groups are trying to bring more people in to the meetings but schools and communities are getting rid of them because they feel that it is the mothers choices as to whether they have children or not. In this article they talk about the young ages that women, teens, and children are get pregnant and having babies. It says that there was a rate in 2006 of 75,000 women under 20 was becoming single mothers being forced to live the life of poverty. Because the mothers lived that life it was causing for the children to also live the sad life with their mothers. Despite a wave of late-term abortion restrictions being signed into law in state capitals, advocacy groups like Planned Parenthood so far have held back on filing any legal challenges. The hesitation could be a sign that the groups are concerned about their chances in court. The new proposals would ban most abortions after about 20 weeks into pregnancy, narrowing the window in which a woman can seek an abortion, based on claims that a fetus can feel pain after that period. Though these proposals are seen by pro-choice advocates as an assault on reproductive rights, the litigation hasn't started flying.
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