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by Pamela Whitehead, Project Coordinator, Check My Clinic

One of the resources that we at Check My Clinic offer to advocates who go and counsel women in front of the abortion facilities is Check My Clinic signs. These signs would coincide with the violations that you see for that facility on our website.

So the idea is that you would look at the facility where you advocate and you would look at what the violations are. You would choose a sign under our resources tab with printables that coincides with the violation that you see in that facility. Samples:  

You send that graphic to your local print shop, and have it printed. I always recommend 36 by 24 because that’s pretty large. It can be seen from the street.

Once you have that sign printed, you would peacefully and silently stand in front of the facility, informing not only those who are entering, but also those who work at the facility. As well as the public driving by. So it’s an awareness campaign.

For places other than the centers themselves, there’s a lot of advantage to getting the information to people before they even show up. The designs can also be used at any rallies like the March for Life or the Women’s March. Especially in 2020, we have a lot of politicians vying for our votes. So those signs could get a lot of traction at a political rally.

In that case you need a sign that was more general rather than saying this clinic has this problem. So we have that. We have a sign that says “Look at this Website – We Dare You.

We also have printable postcards that can be handed out. They can be at a pregnancy center, or they could be at a college campus. You can put those anywhere in a café on a college campus.

On the front of the card it says what you don’t know could hurt you, and then on the back it says an informed woman is an empowered woman. Then it gives the information about what Check My Clinic is and what we offer on the site.

It’s nonjudgmental, it’s informational. What we’re offering is facts. It’s just the facts of what the state has found inside these facilities.

We feel like every woman, every person, every citizen needs to know.

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by Rachel MacNair, Project Coordinator (816-753-2057)

I took this picture in a bookstore when I was visiting Napa, California. It struck me how it was making its pro-PP point. The breast exams and Pap smears are the forms of cancer screening that PP provides, so that service is double-listed. Note that abortion isn’t mentioned at all.

I mentioned to the bookstore clerk that prenatal services are rarely offered by Planned Parenthood, as mentioned on the bag. Also, they don’t offer mammograms at all. She then actually told me that she had gotten a mammogram herself at PP.

I clarified with her that she meant the PP there in Napa. Then I whipped out my smart phone, googled ‘Planned Parenthood Napa,’ and found the page for that specific clinic.

It showed they do mammogram referrals, not mammograms themselves. And prenatal services weren’t listed at all.

I showed this to the clerk. Her only remark was that I should check with the company. I said this was the company’s website.

This story is an example of how the services PP actually provides can be documented. PP lists the services each individual clinic provides on the individual clinic’s webpage, easily found on PP’s website. No one needs to take our word for it.

You can see for yourself that “prenatal services” is rarely listed. Abortion is practically always listed, either providing them or referring for them.

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