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NATIONAL TRADITIONALIST CAUCUS ISSUES
REJECT INTRO #371
November 16, 2010.
Based CPC Bill
I urge the City Council to reject this biased legislation.
Under the guise of consumer advocacy, this bill constitutes abortion industry advocacy,
by imposing standards on crisis pregnancy centers that Planned Parenthood and other abortion
providers do not accept for themselves.
Many abortion-friendly counseling centers and small abortion clinics have no on-site medical staff;
yet they would not be required to advertise this to incoming clients.
Neither is it standard practice for health care providers to preemptively
disclose what products and services they don't provide.
Again, this standard would only apply to crisis pregnancy centers.
If the aim of the legislation is full disclosure,
then abortion clinics should be required to provide information about fetal development,
and the physical and mental health risks of abortion.
They are not; rather crisis pregnancy centers are accused of "bias" and "scare tactics"
for providing this information.
Neither is the provision for subjecting crisis pregnancy centers to patient confidentiality laws
as innocent as it appears. As currently written, this law forbids the report of rape or incest
unless the victim is under 13, and the perpetrator is a family member.
Centers couldn't follow up, make referrals, or even call the police without written permission -
often difficult when the victim is in an abusive relationship.
Proponents of this bill have not produced a single example of a woman's confidentiality being
violated by a crisis pregnancy center, and yet this threat is being presented as so great that the
confidentiality of abusers, statutory rapists and pedophiles must be protected as well.
To their credit, the sponsors of this bill have made no secret that it was proposed and drafted
by Planned Parenthood - America's largest abortion-provider, and NARAL -
America's premier abortion-rights political action committee.
To suggest that these are disinterested parties seeking to guarantee women unbiased
information about abortion is like trusting the oil industry to draft regulations on
those selling electric cars! If this bill passes, it will be a testament not only to
the Council's ideological extremism, but to a politically-connected industry's power
to criminalize their competition.
Sean Y. Degidon
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