Massachusetts AG warns consumers about crisis pregnancy centers posing as abortion clinics
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With the right to an abortion overturned nationwide, Massachusetts is warning patients to stay away from crisis pregnancy centers — centers that look like abortion clinics but whose primary purpose is to dissuade women from having abortions.
Massachusetts' attorney general issued a consumer warning on Thursday, saying these centers often don't provide the reproductive health services of the clinics they mimic.
"CPCs may appear to be reproductive health care clinics, but do NOT provide abortion care or abortion referrals, contraception or other reproductive health care, despite what they may advertise," the office of Attorney General Maura Healey's office said in a stark warning.
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