Crisis pregnancy centers are at the center of a renewed debate over abortion rights

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren testified in the U.S. Senate this month about legislation she co-sponsored that seeks to prohibit the centers from using deceptive or misleading advertising. Warren said crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs, claim to provide reproductive health care, but their goal is to prevent abortions.

"One of things that was really disturbing about what Sen. Warren said is that she said, 'pregnancy centers deceive,'"said Teresa Larkin, executive director of Your Options Medical in Revere. "Maybe there are some centers that do that, but it was a blanket statement that looped all of us into this pot that nobody wanted to be in. We didn't pick this battle, and we want people to know the truth.

"I can't speak to what [other centers] do," Larkin said."I can only say what we do and that is help women." Clients are brought into a smaller counseling room to meet with the center's patient advocate. Larkin says they are asked questions about their pregnancy status and plans. "Maybe you are 13 weeks, so you are not able to do the pill. Here in Massachusetts the pill you can take up to 11 weeks," Nancy explained."So I just give her that kind of medical piece of information and then I tell her what kind of abortion she would have."

"We can't influence someone in such a way. We see them for one hour — and none of us has that power," Larkin said."But individually? Yes, we've seen so many ultrasounds that it's very difficult to argue with the fact that that is life, a separate life. You can't see that baby on a screen and deny its personhood."

"When someone is facing an unintended pregnancy, they deserve the facts. And you simply can't get that at a crisis pregnancy center," said Rebecca Hart Holder, the executive director of the group."The goal of a crisis pregnancy center is to prevent you from deciding that abortion care is the right option for you."

The outside of Your Options Medical, a crisis pregnancy center in Revere, still has remnants of recent vandalism.

Close them all. They shouldn't be able to operate without providing any medical care to pregnant people.

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