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YSK - many “crisis pregnancy centers” in the US are religious organizations pretending to provide healthcare

YSK - many “crisis pregnancy centers” in the US are religious organizations pretending to provide healthcare - Lemmy.World

One about killed a woman by not identifying her pregnancy is ectopic. [https://www.dallasnews.com/business/health-care/2026/03/27/a-crisis-pregnancy-center-told-a-texas-woman-that-her-pregnancy-was-normal-it-wasnt/] Many anti abortion folks are convinced that even ectopic pregnancies can be viable. These places promise things like free pregnancy tests and medical advice to get people in the door. They really just exist to pressure women into not getting abortions. They will lie through their teeth - all the classics, like suggesting that an abortion makes it impossible to get pregnant again, or that abortion causes cancer - they’ll say anything to prevent an abortion. They are pretty much completely unregulated, and present themselves as secular non profits.

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P03 Locke

Many “centers” in the US are religious organizations pretending to not pump their own religion: Alcoholics Anonymous, Boy Scouts of America, Salvation Army, Scientology has a bunch of these, too. And Mormons.

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versionc 2d ago

Interestingly enough, the Scientology church is the source of a lot of anti-drug propaganda provided in and by public schools in Sweden.

Source in Swedish: svt.se/…/skolor-koper-droginformation-fran-scient…

Skolor köper droginformation från scientologirörelsen

Svenska skolor fortsätter att anlita en organisation med nära band till scientologirörelsen för drogföreläsningar – trots åratal av kritik. – Det är bara snömos, det finns inget som helst vetenskapligt innehåll i detta, säger Björn Johnson, drogforskare på Malmö universitet.

SVT Nyheter

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laurel 2d ago

In my experience, AA is very open about the “higher power” thing and every meeting I have ever been to has also emphasized the flexibility and variety of what that even means to a person. But I would argue there’s absolutely a reason why it’s said that you need to hit your personal rock bottom first. Recovery is a wild experience and you do only reach it when you are so out of ideas as to how to make your own bullshit work anymore. I’m sober today although not through attending AA. But - in retrospect - the whole thing does make logical sense to me and my process looked a lot like the progression of the 12 steps. While I still have criticisms and skepticisms of AA, I wouldn’t consider it to be anywhere in the vicinity of anti-abortion “pregnancy centre” type deceptions.