It doesn’t create a mandatory registry, but is directly awful. It creates government lists of ‘resources’ that include Crisis Pregnancy Centers but exclude anywhere that provides abortion, which is implicitly a federal endorsement of CPCs. Some people may support CPCs, but they are certainly controversial enough that the federal government should not be endorsing them. Currently the MA government has a webpage up to actively warn people about CPCs. Or from Wikipedia:
CPCs aim not to educate and inform but to deceive, hector, and manipulate pregnant women attempting to learn about their pregnancy and options.[8] The centers have frequently been found to disseminate false medical information about the supposed physical and mental health risks of abortion,[15][16][17]; they sometimes promulgate misinformation about the effectiveness of condoms and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.[18] CPCs are sometimes called fake abortion clinics by scholars, the media, and supporters of abortion rights, due to deceptive advertising that obscures the centers’ anti-abortion agenda.
The bill also provides for child support payments to start during pregnancy, which is legally a step towards codifying fetal personhood. We’ve already had Alito suggest in oral arguments that EMTALA creates fetal personhood and don’t need any more fuel for that fire unless you think IVF is bad.
CPCs should be illegal, or at a minimum should be required to openly advertise themselves as an “non-abortion” pregnancy center.
In addition to what you said, CPCs in states with limited-time legal abortion will intentionally string women along, not explaining to them that they will never perform an abortion, until those women are too late to get an abortion without becoming a medical refugee in another state.
Eh, I think free speech entitles the CPCs to exist.
They should definitely NOT be endorsed by any level of government though.
And of course they are subject to normal restrictions like can’t hold a person there against their will and stuff like that which would apply to any business / service. And they certainly can’t advertise that they provide abortions if they don’t.
I’ll rephrase, because I was admittedly speaking from a place of emotion.
CPCs should be strictly regulated, as their purpose for existence is to trick vulnerable individuals so they don’t seek a valid medical option.
Of course, if we were regulating that, we’d need to regulate traveling prayer healing charlatans who convince people to stop doing chemo and instead hand over their life savings. Which I’d also be okay with, but it opens a whole can of worms when you regulate speech that convinces people to make life-endangering choices.
He was arguably being sarcastic. Although the context makes it worse: He was talking about the wave of migrants to the US, and claiming that many of them were patients in mental institutions (editorial comment: the Trump campaign has been asked to provide evidence of this and failed to do so. Cuba did do so 40 years ago, but that doesn’t seem relevant). Then he talked about Lecter, then went back to talking about migrants coming from mental institutions and do we really want that (so also ignoring the fact that most patients in mental institutions are not serial killers).
So basically it was race baiting, trying to link migrants to Lecter on an unsubstantiated basis that wouldn’t actually be a link even if true.
He later went on Twitter to complain “liberals have no sense of humor” after his infant-tier lie was refuted and admitted that rather than the 3.5M+ people at the concert pictured, Trump allegedly pulled as many as 10,000.
My answer to Stone here is looks like the rural MAGAs can stay home on election day. Those 3.5 million people in the photo can be counted on to vote for Trump.
Liberals have a sense of humor. There was no humor there.
Like saying dogs have no sense of smell because they walk past garbage bins all the time without so much a pause (paws?).
Certain Republicans seem to get a sense of satisfaction from intentionally saying dumb things, waiting for liberals to point out that the thing was dumb, and then calling libs triggered.
Like you’re the stupid one if you really thought that the big crowd was a Trump rally, you dumb liberal, it was a joke.
My Dad plays in a local no-audition orchestra that compares unfavorably to your average high school.
But their concerts sometimes last over 4 hours. And my view is that if outfits like the New York Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra think that they can only hold your attention for 2-2.5 hours then it’s pretty damn arrogant for this POS local group to give 4 hour concerts.
Leftists are a bunch of snowflakes. Look how triggered they are that trailers for the upcoming Star Wars show include a white man, as does the current season of Dr. Who. Everything sets them off.
