Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act

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Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I thank Representative Sanchez for yielding and for her leadership on this important issue.

I rise today in opposition to the so-called Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act, which would prevent the Department of Health and Human Services from restricting funds to crisis pregnancy centers.

We know, as we have heard, and is included in the report that Representative Sanchez just mentioned, that crisis pregnancy centers prey on people at a very vulnerable time. They often spread misinformation to further what is clearly an anti-choice agenda. They routinely use deceptive advertising to get people into the doors, and then they mislead them about the services they provide.

In fact, a center in Ohio was caught making outlandish assertions, including that ``condoms were only 50 percent effective, the spread of STDs could only be prevented if people followed `God's plan' of avoiding sex before marriage, and that if a woman who has an STD gets an abortion, `your STDs travel up your cervix into your organs and could kill you.' ''

This deception is outrageous, dangerous, and unconscionable, which is why I have introduced the Stop Antiabortion Disinformation Act, H.R. 2736, to direct the Federal Trade Commission to issue rules prohibiting unfair or deceptive advertising of abortion services.

This, Mr. Speaker, will really make a difference because anyone seeking reproductive care should have access to a real healthcare provider that will provide them with comprehensive and accurate medical information.

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Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, anyone seeking reproductive care should have access to a real healthcare provider that will provide them with real, comprehensive, and accurate medical information. That is not what they get at pregnancy resource centers. I urge my colleagues to reject this bill.

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