One about killed a woman by not identifying her pregnancy is ectopic. Many anti abortion folks are convinced that even ectopic pregnancies can be viable.

These places promise things like free pregnancy tests and medical advice to get people in the door.

They really just exist to pressure women into not getting abortions. They will lie through their teeth - all the classics, like suggesting that an abortion makes it impossible to get pregnant again, or that abortion causes cancer - they’ll say anything to prevent an abortion.

They are pretty much completely unregulated, and present themselves as secular non profits.

  • FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafeEnglish
    0·
    6 days ago

    I was sent to a Christian (Baptist leaning) high school and in 9th grade instead of sex ed we had an abstinence unit in health class where they brought in 2 people (one man and one woman) from some outside organization to speak to us about abstinence. So boys and girls were split up and they tried to “encourage us to ask honest questions.” Some of the things that the girls were told is:

    1. Pregnancy dangerous. Abstinence is the best contraceptive
    2. Think of your future husband. Don’t you want to share that special bond with him? If you give yourself to someone before marriage then you won’t be able to give your entire self to your husband later
    3. Casual sex will make it so you can’t enjoy married life later
    4. Don’t dress slutty or you’ll tempt men. Even if your bf is a good Christian man, you shouldn’t tempt him like that

    The boys were apparently told similar things except that there was a big emphasis on how masturbation and porn count as no longer being abstinent bc they’ll be sex and porn addicts. Then the male speaker spoke to the boys and girls together about stds and how if you have sex with one person then you’ve basically had sex with anyone they’ve had sex with, so you’ve basically fucked 1,000 people. We were literally told that

    Ironically, the female speaker was pregnant (married) and the male speaker told us how his wife didn’t wait till marriage and she had to pray super hard and luckily God answered her prayers and let her enjoy married life like she had been abstinent (whatever the fuck that means??)

    So basically, as women we were straight up told to consider the feelings of a theoretical future husband and let that determine our actions :/

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      5 days ago

      Then the male speaker spoke to the boys and girls together about stds and how if you have sex with one person then you’ve basically had sex with anyone they’ve had sex with, so you’ve basically fucked 1,000 people.

      I was taught this in public school.