In typical fashion, NJ.com foams at the mouth in response to pregnancy resource centers that dare to offer CHOICES, meaning options and resources OTHER than abortion.
The bias just drips off this article, considering the anecdotal fairy tales embedded, especially considering not one complaint has been formally filed by an actual client.
FUN FACT: Of New Jersey’s 22 Planned Parenthood locations, just FOUR offer prenatal/post natal care. That’s 18%. Not exactly planning parenthood, but the AG is silent on this.
More troubling, NJ AG Matthew Platkin was exposed via OPRA records to be colluding with Planned Parenthood in their push to monopolize the market, so to speak, by slamming pregnancy resource centers. Terminations are quite the business in this state, which may explain why NJ’s misnamed REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM ACT includes termination up to the moment of birth, including abortions legally permitted on minors by those who are NOT licensed medical doctors, and without parental notification, funded by you, the taxpayer.
Additionally, New Jersey is so fearful of personhood granted at any stage of development that the Legislature has decriminalized any harm that comes to an unborn child during the commission of a violent crime against the mother. Yet perplexingly, NJ just passed legislation out of the Assembly which grants bereavement leave to a mother who suffers a loss of pregnancy, which for the record, I fully support.
A majority of New Jerseyans do support abortion rights. What a majority does not support are the extreme policies above.
In her Op-ed –“New Jersey Harasses Pregnancy Resource Centers”–Sierra Dawn McClain, the assistant editorial features editor at the Wall Street Journal, claims the “emails obtained through a public records request show that the attorney general’s office asked Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, to preview and edit the draft consumer alert before it was issued – a clear conflict of interest.”
She goes on to say, “In addition to slamming pregnancy centers, the consumer alert urged women seeking abortions to check out Planned Parenthood’s website.” She also noted that “the Attorney General’s office and Planned Parenthood declined to comment on the collaboration.”
Here is my resolution supporting the work of pregnancy resource centers and condemns harassment of pregnancy resource centers by the AG: https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2024/AR157
