Some states of Mountain West are on the way to protect pregnancy centers against abortion – Kunr Public Radio

Conservative states in our region are increasingly protecting the pregnancy centers of the crisis (CPC). These centers often provide free tests for pregnancy, ultrasounds and other resources for recent mothers, but usually do not offer abortions and sometimes they They discourage women to end their pregnancy.

Arizona and Jute He already supports some of them. Idaho allows drivers to buy ACCRAPTION Licenseswho fund the centers, and now MPs in Wyoming and Montana are considering protecting what supporters see as confirming life.

Denise Burke, with a national Christian group for the right to the right to protect freedom, press The new legislation in Wyoming (HB 273)which protects the centers from government regulation.

“It’s not, as some try to make it, blanket immunity at pregnancy centers,” Burke said during the time of Wyoming’s Working, Health and Social Services Committee meeting On January 29th. “It just prevents them from being discriminated against because of their ethics of life.”

Wyoming legislation does so, so state and local authorities cannot require CPC to provide abortions. Burke added that this is especially necessary at the moment, as CPC is seeing increasing threats in the era after ROE against Wade.

Democratic countries as Colorado They regulate CPC, more specifically interfere with the ads that provide abortions when they do not, or offer “turning abortion pills”.

Some Cpc say They may offer effective treatments to disrupt the abortion process but Colorado’s law He calls it a “dangerous and deceptive practice that is not supported by science or clinical standards.”

Some Wyoming residents, such as Brit Boril, spoke at Wyoming’s recent meeting as a CPCS opposition.

“These centers are running a religious program under the guise of healthcare,” Boril told legislators. “In my opinion, these centers are dangerous and should absolutely be responsible for the misinformation they are distributing.”

According to CPCS online card From researchers at the University of Georgia, there are almost 200 – 11 of which are in Wyoming in our region.

Reporter Rachel Rodriges Williams (R-Cody) who sponsors this bill and Another legislation against abortionused to lead One of the centers This has places in cody and powell, according to her LinkedinS

The CPC Protection Bill in Wyoming has moved to the State House 46-14 and is now heading for the Senate.

A A similar bill is also considered by Montana’s legislation.

This story has been produced by The Mountain West News Bureau, a cooperation between public media in Wyoming, public radio in Nevada, Boyz Public Radio in Idaho, Kun in Nevad region. Funding of the Mountain Western News Bureau is provided in part by Public broadcastS