Posted on 03/10/2012 3:07:45 PM PST by NYer
I had a similar experience when I was 17. Thinking I might be pregnant, I went to a Planned Parenthood clinic to ask for a test.
I was sent in to talk to a “counselor.”
“Of course, if it comes back positive, you’ll have an abortion,” she said.
“No,” I said. “I don’t want an abortion.”
She kept rewording her assertion that I would want to have an abortion if the test came back positive, and I kept saying that I would not.
Finally, after about fifteen minutes or so, she gave up. “You probably aren’t pregnant anyway,” she said, ending the conversation.
Although it turned out that I wasn’t, I didn’t know that from PP, who never did administer the test.
I have strongly suspected that had I indicated a willingness to have an abortion, they would have given me the test and told me it was positive so that they could have ripped off taxpayers by doing a mock abortion anyway.
The PP “counselors” also had a variety of other tactics meant to increase the number of “unwanted” pregnancies. A “counselor” came to my high school biology class to give us a “lesson” on birth control, which mostly seemed designed to decrease the number of girls choosing to be responsible. She stressed the dangers of various birth control methods. She stressed how unreliable birth control is. She explained how to use the rhythm method, but described the physical signs of ovulation as being the “safe” time to have sex, while explaining that the signs that ovulation was not taking place meant there was a high probability of getting pregnant. (I didn’t know that she had, in fact, explained the physical signs as meaning the exact opposite of what they actually mean until years later, when I knew a little more about biology.) In the event that girls might still be inclined to use birth control (or even abstain), she emphasized that abortion is “perfectly safe” and even said that having a late abortion would cure us of having menstrual cramps.
That was my personal experience with PP during the 70s. I doubt that the misinformation campaign was limited to that one PP office (located in Walnut Creek, CA). If anything, it has probably become more refined during the decades since.
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