Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Remain Open Despite Closures of Non-Essential Businesses

Many anti-abortion pregnancy centers in Colorado are continuing to operate even as non-essential businesses have been forced to close and non-essential medical procedures have been suspended due to coronavirus.

Anti-abortion pregnancy centers, sometimes referred to as crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), are typically faith-based organizations that offer free pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, and supplies for taking care of a newborn, in addition to “counseling” for those experiencing an unintended pregnancy. That “counseling” typically includes discussing pregnancy outcome options, including abortion, adoption, and parenting, but with an anti-abortion bias that often includes misinformation.

Many of these anti-abortion centers also offer a so-called “abortion reversal” treatment for those who have taken the first of two abortion pills required for a medication abortion, but then come to regret their abortion decision. (The idea that regret is common following an abortion is one that isn’t supported by medical research, but one that anti-abortion pregnancy centers tend to promote.)

For example, Alternatives Pregnancy Center, which is continuing to operate at a couple of its locations in the Denver metropolitan area, offers post-abortion counseling in addition to “abortion reversal” treatment, and its website states that abortion causes a loss of one’s “ability to trust,” “personal beliefs,” and “hopes and dreams.”

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