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Are Crisis Pregnancy Centers unethical?

Are Crisis Pregnancy Centers unethical?

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Saturday, April 14, 2018 

Mahatma Ghandi reputedly said, “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” We could paraphrase this in a contemporary context: a nation’s right-to-die laws are measured by how it treats the disabled.
Our lead story this week deals with the euthanasia of patients with an intellectual disability or autism in the Netherlands. Four bioethicists suggest that the necessary safeguards are lacking in these cases.
That is bad enough. But they go on to point out that the disabled have to deal with nigh-intolerable suffering for their whole lives. How does legal euthanasia make them feel? In the words of another author, “If society endorses the right of a person to seek physician assistance to end his or her life because of increasing loss of functional autonomy, what does that say about how our society values the lives of people who live with comparable limitations every day of their lives for years on end?”



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Are crisis pregnancy centres unethical?
     


A recent article in the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics has sparked debate about the practices of crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs) in the US.
The article, "Why Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are Legal but Unethical", claims that CPCs deliberately withhold information about abortion services from pregnant women, and provide misleading information about the risks of premarital sex, contraception and pregnancy termination. The authors, Amy Bryant and Jonas Swartz, say that CPCs masquerade as medical facilities while not being staffed by medical professionals. They argue that the centers should be required to conform to “the ethical standards of licensed medical facilities”.
The article comes in the wake of a Supreme Court challenge to a California law requiring CPCs to display information about State birth control and abortion services.  
Bioethicist Christian Brugger published a scathing critique of the paper, arguing that it was tendentious and based on poor ethical reasoning:
Since [...] abortion is not a medical, therapeutic or morally-valid service to offer anyone, for any reason, failing to provide information about it, or to refer for it, or to conform to abortion-friendly standards; or trying to persuade women away from it in respectful ways; or setting up near abortion clinics to offer life-saving alternatives; or teaching lifestyle habits that help women not to find themselves carrying problem pregnancies, are not only not morally wrong, they are required of any decent citizenry in a free society.

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