When we’re in a time when people could very easily be criminally prosecuted for seeking abortion, beyond even just getting the procedure itself, this type of technology and how it’s being used has a lot of implications." - Shireen Shakouri

[CPCs] know they’re selling a product that no one wants: stigma and disinformation. The anti-abortion movement preys on people they perceive as powerless and with nowhere else to go.” - Shireen Shakouri

Anti-Abortion Fake Clinics Are Not the Answer to Our Post-Roe Troubles

Anti-abortion fake clinics—sometimes known as crisis pregnancy centers, pregnancy resource centers, and other misleading labels—exist to deceive people seeking abortion care and shame them for their choices.

The Crisis Pregnancy Center Next Door: How Taxpayer Money Intended for Poor Families is Funding a Growing Anti-Abortion Movement

There were 790 abortion clinics operating in 2021, compared with about 2,600 crisis pregnancy centers, according to a database compiled by Reproaction, an abortion-rights group.

Often, people think of Yelp and think of restaurants, but​​ it’s a source that a lot of people go to when they’re looking at all sorts of different businesses and services.” - Shireen Shakouri

Fake clinics can’t be an afterthought when we talk about abortion bans and the threat they pose." - Shireen Shakouri

Anti-abortion fake clinics are the conversion ‘therapy’ wing of an anti-abortion movement that is hell-bent on sending people to jail for abortion, miscarriage and pregnancy." - Erin Matson

It shouldn’t be on the individual user to have to sift through and do their research to find what is actually healthcare when they’re trying to use a publicly available search tool for medical care.” - Shireen Shakouri

Abortion in the Surveillance State

But Facebook recently took down Reproaction’s scientifically sound posts about self-managing abortions with pills.

There is no other sector of health care in which it’s acceptable for clinicians to deliberately mislead patients." - Shireen Shakouri