Sex Lies And Videotape

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Via The Times Ireland edition:

Two unregulated crisis pregnancy agencies with connections to Irish pro-life groups have been caught giving misleading “advice” about the consequences of abortion, having sex and using contraception.

A new undercover investigation by The Times has secretly recorded counsellors at the Ask Majella crisis pregnancy agency claiming that abortion causes breast cancer and can increase a woman’s chances of losing all of her reproductive organs. They also said that contraception was dangerous and women could “die” from having sex.

A second undercover investigation at Gianna Care, a crisis pregnancy service that started as a Youth Defence activist group, recorded a counsellor telling the undercover reporter that all women who have an abortion regret it. Both agencies claimed to offer “the truth”.

Gianna Care and Ask Majella are unregulated crisis pregnancy agencies based in Dublin. Both have been exposed six months after The Times carried out an undercover investigation into another clinic, the Women’s Centre at 9 Berkeley Street in Dublin, which revealed it was telling women that abortion causes breast cancer and could turn them into child abusers.

At that time, Simon Harris, the health minister, pledged to crack down on such agencies but no new legislation has been introduced..,.

Sex kills, anti-abortion clinic tells women (Ellen Coyne and Rebecca Lumley, (The Times Ireland Edition)

Previously:  Abortion causes cancer, women’s centre claims (The Times Ireland Edition, September 5, 2016)

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19 thoughts on “Sex Lies And Videotape

  1. Starina

    if you have to lie to get people to behave how you want, you are abusive and controlling.

  2. Daisy Chainsaw

    “Ask Majella” have been spouting this rubbish for years. A quick google search brings up a similar report from 2009. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/health/agency-rejects-claims-it-uses-anti-abortion-scare-tactics-101310.html . Like a lot of antichoice groups, they seem to have abandoned the overtly religious aspect in an attempt to appear less godbothery, but the majority of these agencies lying to women are deeply bound up with religious zealotry.

  3. nellyb

    Counselling-shmanselling. Termination makes women obese, grow chest hair and peni$. There is a question on it on a leaving cert.

    1. Cian

      No, not having a termination makes women obese, grow chest hair and (if it’s a baby boy) a penis. Until the birth and then it (mostly) goes back to as it was before.

  4. Jonickal

    Pro-lifers: “I’m opposed to abortion in all cases except when the girl is pregnant.”

  5. phil

    Ill be in the Mater Hospital tomorrow, I might ask someone there if the above medical ‘facts’ are true…

    1. Nigel

      ‘Please help me I’m awfully worried that I don’t have a light in my eyes because I can’t read in the dark.’

  6. Sheik Yahbouti

    It is immensely sobering, and discouraging, to think that this kind of thing is still ongoing in 2017. As I’ve often mentioned, I’m old now – but I notice that many who castigate ‘the grey vote ‘ and ‘coffin dodgers ‘ are the very people who are keeping this bizzarre mindset alive. I’m so tired of this ridiculous war – let those who want/need an abortion have the facilities to do so. Let those who disagree with abortion NOT HAVE ONE. it’s always about controlling what someone else does.

  7. Sheik Yahbouti

    PS on another note entirely – Just watching RTE news for the fun of it. I DEMAND that Eleonor Tiernan does all crime reports. Get rid of Reynolds and the rest of them.

  8. Daniel Sullivan

    It’s pretty abhorrent behaviour but it’s also probably quite a problem to make it illegal. There’s lots of people telling other people things that aren’t true but making it illegal on a wholesale basis is probably a minefield.

    I’d have thought that one practical solution is that every time one of these new advice centres pops up that someone would go along to check it out and if it’s just this sort of nonsense that there’s a campaign to swamp it with requests for advice so that those who might be in need of genuine advice or counselling can’t get a slot. A campaign of mass civil engagement if you will, the opposite of a boycott.

    1. Starina

      when it’s to do with medical advice it should certainly be regulated. it’s not like telling someone their necklace is made in Kerry when it’s actually made in Bangkok.

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