Anti-choicers who wish to get hold of young women and feed them full of lies about birth control and abortion are getting more clever about hiding their agenda, it looks like.  RH Reality Check has an expose by Heather Corinna about the American Pregnancy Association and the American Pregnancy Helpline, linked anti-choice groups dedicated to discouraging unmarried young women from using either contraception or abortion (or keeping babies they do have---everything on the site pushes you towards giving up your child for adoption).  The alarming thing about the APA is that an initial review of their materials would lead you to think they’re a responsible pro-choice organization, because they admit that abortion is an option.  In fact, they resemble a responsible pro-choice organization to the degree that various other pro-choice websites have linked them and provided referrals.  It’s only if you start digging around that you see that the site intends to point young women who visit the site towards local “crisis pregnancy centers"---anti-choice fake clinics that give you free pregnancy tests and then hit you with guilt trips if you were considering abortion and pamphlets trying to scare you out of using contraception.

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