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Posted on 09/16/2026 5:45:29 PM PDT by Morgana
Earlier this week, as I sat in a waiting room and scrolled on my phone, the algorithm attacked. There on my screen was an ad from the so-called Catholics for Free Choice asking me to purchase a training class on how to spot “fake clinics.”
They were referencing pregnancy resource centers. And for a fee, they were willing to teach me how to hunt them down.
Clearly, Catholics for Choice (CFC) has a new target, and for once, it’s not the bishops. They are now targeting the women sitting in a waiting room with a positive test and no idea what to do next. Their latest product is a workshop with a title that gives the game away: “Fake Clinics: Catholicism’s Role and How to Spot Them.” Pregnancy resource centers, they tell their partners, are not ministries. They are “anti-abortion propaganda machines of the religious right.” Learn to spot them. Learn to fight them.
That is a new low, even for them, and proves that CFC is about as Catholic as a pot roast dinner on Good Friday.
Pregnancy Resource Centers exist to reach a woman before the abortion industry does. They offer a free test, a free ultrasound, a coat, a crib, a class, a person who will still take her call after the baby is born. Catholics for Choice wants the public to treat that work as a fraud. They have spent fifty years borrowing the Catholic name to bless the taking of unborn life. Now they are using it to smear the one place in town that will not charge her and will not kill her child.
These gals at CFC aren’t a movement that grew from the pews at Catholic churches. No, no. This group was created in 1973 (right after Roe) by abortion zealots who needed a Catholic letterhead. Early money did not come from second collections during Mass. It came from the same world that built the abortion clinics. They crowned a “pope” on the steps of St. Patrick’s and called it witness. The American bishops have said, more than once and in public, that the group is not a Catholic organization, does not speak for the Church, and exists to reject the teaching on innocent human life. That should have been the end of the argument. It was not, because the name was too useful to retire.
Frances Kissling made the name a brand. She only lasted six months in a convent. But she lasted a career in the abortion business. She ran a clinic in Pelham, NY. She helped found the National Abortion Federation. By her own account, she went to Italy and Mexico in the 1970s to help set up illegal abortion clinics. Then she took the presidency of Catholics for a Free Choice and held it for a quarter century. That is not a reformer wrestling with her Church. That is an abortion operator who found a Catholic costume useful.
Under that leadership, the group learned a particular craft: take what is holy and point it at the thing the Church forbids. They printed prayer cards asking Our Lady of Guadalupe, the pregnant Virgin, Patroness of the Unborn, the mother who appeared to a poor man on Tepeyac, to “savor this moment of freedom” and bless those who “accompanied me in embracing my God-given right to decide.”
Kissling reserved a special contempt for the Holy See. In 1999 she launched See Change, a campaign to knock the Vatican out of its Permanent Observer seat at the United Nations and reduce the Church’s government to the status of a sidewalk NGO. The coalition was Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Marie Stopes, humanists, and atheists. The banners said Vatican statehood was “dangerous to women’s health.” The campaign failed. They never stopped trying. Year after year at the Commission on the Status of Women, they stand up as “Catholics” and tell delegates the bishops do not speak for Catholics. Anyone who has sat in those rooms, as I have, has watched the move. It is not theology. It is kabuki theater.
Here’s a short list of their greatest hits:
Crown a mock pope on the cathedral steps.
Place a New York Times ad declaring direct abortion “a moral choice,” and dare religious sisters to sign it.
Ask Our Lady of Guadalupe to protect an abortion.
Sell St. Brigid as an abortion saint.
Run “Mary Had a Choice” against the bishops in Baltimore.
Try to strip the Holy See of its voice at the UN.
Tell the world that banning condoms “kills,” that Catholic hospitals are a clinical hazard, and now that pregnancy centers are fake clinics.
Have mercy. Reading that list shows that the attacks on pregnancy resource centers are not a surprise. It’s a natural progression for those who lobby for abortion profits. If you have already used Mary against her own Child, you will not blush at calling a diaper closet a public danger.
Here is what those centers actually do.
The Charlotte Lozier Institute’s 2025 report, covering 2024, is our best national inventory. The United States had 2,775 pregnancy centers. They saw more than a million new clients, on average, a new person every day in every center. They provided about 700,000 pregnancy tests and 636,000 ultrasounds. Nearly 400,000 people sat through prenatal and parenting education. Eight in ten centers offer free or low-cost medical services, staffed by more than 10,000 medical professionals. The material help is not a talking point. It is inventory: more than six million packs of diapers, nearly five million baby outfits, formula, strollers, car seats, cribs. Lozier puts the 2024 value of medical care, education, and goods at more than $452 million. Client satisfaction, even on their own surveys, came in at 98 percent.
Catholics for Choice calls this coercion. No, ladies, it isn’t. It’s help! Because help is what a mother receives when someone hands her a car seat instead of a pill.
The other clinics, the ones CFC calls “real,” have a different record. A long list of dead women. These women did not die because a pregnancy center gave them a free ultrasound. They died after they walked into an abortion clinic, or after they took what the abortion industry sold them, and the procedure went the way the brochures never mention.
Tonya Reaves was 24. In July 2012, she went to Planned Parenthood on the South Side of Chicago. The abortion was incomplete. Her uterus was perforated. She was left in a recovery area for hours before anyone got her to a hospital. She died.
Lakisha Wilson was 22. In March 2014 she had an abortion at Preterm in Cleveland. She hemorrhaged. The medical examiner ruled that abortion complications killed her.
Keisha Marie Atkins was 23. In February 2017 she had a late-term abortion at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque. She developed a catastrophic infection. She died of sepsis. Her family later received a settlement over the referral that sent her there.
Jamie Lee Morales was 30. In 2016 an abortionist in the Bronx perforated her uterus, tore her cervix, and slashed a uterine artery. She bled to death.
Jennifer Morbelli was 29, a schoolteacher, 33 weeks pregnant with a child who had a poor diagnosis. In February 2013 she had a late-term abortion at Germantown Reproductive Health Services in Maryland. She hemorrhaged. She died.
Alexis “Lexi” Arguello was 18. In February 2025 she had a second-trimester surgical abortion at Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado. She went into a clotting catastrophe in the waiting room. The coroner documented disseminated intravascular coagulation. She died. Her family said the clinic waited too long to call for help.
I am certain, as certain as a man can be about another family’s grief, that those mothers and fathers and grandparents would have given anything if, on that morning, their daughter had driven to a pregnancy resource center instead. She would have been given a test. She would have been given a sonogram. She would have been given time. She would still be here. So would her child.
Catholics for Choice wants you to learn how to “spot” the place that might have saved them. They want you to call that place fake. There is nothing fake about a crib. There is nothing fake about a nurse who will show a woman her baby. There is nothing Catholic about asking Guadalupe to bless the poisoning and dismemberment of an unborn child.
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CINOs
I can tell you how to do that.
They generally have signs up.
They are listed on line.
There are probably apps.
What a sick, evil group this Catholics for Choice is.
Another subset of the terrorist left.
Save
They’re NOT Christian at all.
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