What lengths?

[NoelParticipant]

I have a 23 year old daughter who is in Pittsburgh working on her Masters. She’s a great kid, I love her no end, she is smart as a whip, and very talented musically.

She related an incident to me that left me not knowing if I wanted to laugh or curse.

She takes care of herself. She eats the right things, exercises, and see’s the doctor and gets herself checked out. She has a boyfriend and, if she has unprotected sex, she makes it a point to make sure she didn’t contract anything. As smart as she is she sometimes doesn’t think things through and this was one of those times. She searched on the web, looking for a Planned Parenthood, and found a facility that, although it wasen’t Planned Parenthood, would do a blood test and offer counseling. She got to the facility and was comfortable with it’s cleanliness and attention to detail. She filled out a questionnaire . One of the questions? What religion are you?  She of course answered “Atheist”. The attendant comes in draws blood and asks her, “How long have you been an Atheist?”. My daughter didn’t think anything of it and answers her. What ensued was an attempt to convert her to christianity. My daughter finally asked, “Who supports this facility?” and the woman answered, “The church”. She asked if she could see herself to once again believing in Jesus and being saved and my daughter answered, “I don’t believe in any of it. I don’t believe in the supernatural I believe in science and physics”, and walked out.

So now these idiot evangelicals are setting up woman health facilities, masquerading as Planned Parenthood, in order to promote their warped fucking belief’s in god. And they have no shame.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

There is something sinister about it – and inappropriate.

[JadeBlackOliveParticipant]

Sneaky, dishonest, underhanded, hypocritical, vile, lowdown & dirty. The usual.

Hopefully they don’t chase her down every 5 minutes now they know her information.

[DavisModerator]

That’s the slimy underhanded manipulative swamp of religious recruitment. I hope she gained some kind of lesson from it. I could not be more thankful this kind of garbage rarely happens here.

It’s pretty hard for me to find any example in developed western democratic country where atheists lure people by offering a service that helps them with a serious sensitive problem and then turns on them trying to radically change their world view and convince them to not make a difficult choice (which is otherwise legal).

That being said, I think that a large amount of religious people are also disgusted by this kind of smut. Smiles and caring hands, only to manipulate and indoctrinate. Many are likely as horrified by it.

[.Spectator]

I’ve learned to leave that area blank on everything that asks for it. It’s nobody’s fucking business. And quite frankly I don’t need the drama.

[StregaModerator]

John Oliver did a segment on ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ last Sunday night.  The problem is worse than I though it was possible to be.

[MattParticipant]

Absolutely disgusting… How about the church just pays its taxes and leaves the health care to the doctors. It’s outrageous that THIS is sort of thing they do with their tax free dollars.

[Old AccountParticipant]

It’s a very sad situation when religious organizations are providing evangelism under  the guise of health care.

I do wonder about one aspect of the response, which is stating that “the church” is supporting the facility.   I could see, maybe, a separate entity supported by various churches, which would have its own name, or an answer with the name of the particular church, if that’s the case.  But answering “the church” seems odd.

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