Issue Overview

Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs) often present themselves as free medical clinics to mislead clients seeking abortion. Their primary goal is to prevent clients, through persuasion, misinformation, or delay, from having an abortion.81 While these organizations have the right to oppose abortion, most use misleading tactics, including ads, signs, and websites presenting their facilities as conventional medical clinics, even, at times, as abortion providers.82,83 Inside, they often resemble medical offices, with waiting rooms and exam rooms outfitted with medical equipment, and staff in lab coats and scrubs. Clients must often fill out intake forms that ask for private health information.84