Public Health Assessment of Pregnancy Services Act: There is a lack of public information about the widespread industry of Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs). The Public Health Assessment of Pregnancy Services Act commissions a thorough study by the state Department of Health.
The state should evaluate and report on UPCs: The vast majority of UPCs advertise medical or quasi-medical services. Nearly all offer pregnancy tests and more than 75 percent offer a free ultrasound examination. For what you can do about it, see the latest IdeaLog, our blog intended to raise eyebrows and engage minds.
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The vast majority of Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs) advertise medical or quasi-medical services. Nearly all UPCs offer pregnancy tests and more than 75 percent offer a free ultrasound examination. About 35 percent also offer...
Reproductive Care Access and Information Act: Conservative states spend hundreds of millions of dollars supporting Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs) and much of that goes into advertising. The Reproductive Care Access and Information Act authorizes...
Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs) advertise themselves to potential clients as if they were comprehensive reproductive health care providers. And there are a lot of ads. Google alone was paid $10 million over two years...
Nineteen states (AK, FL, GA, IN, IA, KS, LA, MO, NE, NC, ND, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, WV, WI) collectively spend more than $200 million per year to fund Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics...
Right to Dignified Care Act: Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs) often require clients to fill out unreasonably intrusive medical intake forms. The Right to Dignified Care Act prohibits a UPC from asking clients improper questions...
Intake forms at unregulated pregnancy clinics (UPCs) are often very intrusive, asking personal questions that have nothing to do with the limited “services” they provide. And they use the answers, not to help their...
False Advertising in Health Care Act: Some state efforts to stop false advertising by unregulated pregnancy clinics (UPCs, also called crisis pregnancy centers) have failed because of the way they defined UPCs. The False...
The main objective of unregulated pregnancy clinics (UPCs) is to prevent clients, either by persuasion or delay, from having an abortion. In furtherance of this mission, UPCs present themselves falsely as conventional “free clinics”...
UPC Financial Transparency Act: During the last six years, 23 states have directly funded unregulated pregnancy clinics (UPCs, also called crisis pregnancy centers), and 19 funded them this year. The Financial Transparency Act requires...