Fake Clinic, Fake Charity

Time for the Vicious Abortion Crusaders to saddle up!

Just like the Ottawa Senators fiasco of a few years ago, another fake abortion clinic has weaselled its way into a xmas charity intended to benefit several community groups.

This time in Kamloops.

Shirley Bosman was excited.

"Oh, this is good news," she said. "This is great news."

Bosman is the executive director of the Pregnancy Care Centre of Kamloops, one of five local charities to have been selected as the beneficiaries of 11th edition of The Daily News Christmas Cheer Fund.

The fund's selection committee completed the process last week and the five charities were notified on Friday.

Also selected were the Kamloops Food Bank; the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home; the New Life Mission; and the YMCA-YWCA Y Women's Emergency Shelter.

Now if the good people of Kamloops are aware that so-called crisis pregnancy centres are actually Xian-run anti-choice outfits that exist to lie, manipulate, shame, and guilt-trip women out of choosing abortion, fine. Go ahead and donate to the group 'charity' fund, knowing that one-fifth of your dough is going to religious zealots.

If they are not, they need to be wised up.

Judging from the comments, it seems quite a few people are well aware of the evil of these places.

For example, this from Cruick:

I will not support your cause this year. The Pregnancy Care Centre is a facade for an anti choice organization which only supports one option. I cannot believe that The Daily News has agreed to support this organization and thereby endorsing it as one which deserves our support. They do not provide information about birth control. They do not know about or refuse to give out information regarding "plan B" . They do not have medical professionals staffing their facility. There are so many worthy organizations deserving of our support, but this is not one of them. I am so disappointed. As a society we should be supporting organizations that promote Women's health and right to choose with all the facts provided by professionals.

There are lots more comments like that.

So, four other presumably worthy charities are going to lose out because of the inclusion of the fake clinic.

Let's help make sure that the generous people of Kamloops know what they're supporting. Maybe we'll be successful again in getting the clinic to remove itself because of the heat.

Win-win. More dough for real charities. More exposure of fake clinics.

Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada is on it.

So is the Kamloops Centre for Rational Thought. They've started a petition.

Remove Pregnancy Care Centre from Xmas Cheer fund.

In view of the fact that the Kamloops Pregnancy Care centre is an avowed anti choice organization which displays little concern for actual pregnant women and is in fact a vehicle for Proselytizing Christianity while denying women reliable information on options related to women's health we respectfully ask that the Kamloops Daily News withdraw it's Xmas Cheer fund support and redirect it to a more worthy and less controversial cause.
[Your name]

Lies and evil masquerading as 'charity' should not be rewarded.

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We at DJ! get more than a little miffed at charities that, well, lie and cheat and pursue purely ideological goals -- often misogynist and anti-gay -- on our dime.

Like getting involved in politics, either in the US to crusade for removing abortion services from health care, or here to sneak their 'social values' into ReformaTory policies.

Like lying to and manipulating women seeking abortion but who wander into
crisis pregnancy centres/fake abortion clinics.

And like being economical with the truth about the activities of a beneficiary (a fake abortion clinic) of a hockey fund-raiser.

And, of course, the entire misogynist, anti-gay, pedophile-protecting Catlick Church.

Here's another one. An outfit, Exodus Global Alliance, with charitable status in Canada, has the purpose of 'curing' gays through prayer and lard-knows-what-else.

Mark, at Slap Upside the Head, got interested when he read that the group had had its charitable status rescinded in New Zealand. (Good on the Kiwis.)

Research ensued. Then ACTION! Lots of detailed information about Exodus, charitable status in Canada, what to do and who to write to, here at the Slap into Action page.

Charities get special tax status if they can show they are producing a 'public benefit'. If you agree that trying to 'cure' gays is a public evil, find out more and join in the campaign to get these sumbitches off the pubic tit.

h/t Bruce at Canuck Attitude.

* Image courtesy of Mark at Slap Upside the Head. All rights reserved.