accused of persuading women not to have abortions. crisis pregnancy centres are not upfront about who they are and what they re there to do. no one else should be made to feel how i felt that day. so how many women like me has there been? i m on my way to meet a woman who contacted me about her experience with a crisis pregnancy advice service. she was 25 when she became pregnant last year. it was absolutely unplanned, unexpected. and i think i was unprepared for having to deal with that. i googled pregnancy crisis line or pregnancy helpline , just to talk to somebody
a decision if they are given the facts. and at stanton health care we re committed to providing women with the truth and with the resources that they need to make the best possible decisions for them and their baby. stanton health care says it s helped many women. it s expanding in the uk and last year opened a new centre in scotland. we would welcome more support for women experiencing unplanned or unwanted pregnancies. and the most vulnerable women in our society absolutely need greater support. but crisis pregnancy centres are not the support that these women need. the three crisis pregnancy centres we investigated undercover are all registered charities. the charity commission in northern ireland says it s already looking into stanton health care. the charity commission in england says it s assessing
accused of persuading women not to have abortions. crisis pregnancy centres are not upfront about who they are and what they re there to do. no one else should be made to feel how i felt that day. so how many women like me has there been? i m on my way to meet a woman who contacted me about her experience with a crisis pregnancy advice service. she was 25 when she became pregnant last year. it was absolutely unplanned, unexpected. and i think i was unprepared for having to deal with that. i googled pregnancy crisis line or pregnancy helpline, just to talk to somebody for impartial advice. and ifound pregnancy
crisis pregnancy centres operate outside the nhs. we found 57 advertising online. most say they don t refer women for abortions. they say they offer support and information. i think the common thread that runs through them is that they intercept and grab women who are struggling with the decision as to whether they want to move forward with an abortion or not. we wanted to find out more. we contacted all 57 centres, posing as women wanting information about our options, including abortion. hello. hi, there. i recently found out that i m pregnant and it s come as a massive shock and ijust. 3a of the centres offered impartial support and directed us to the nhs.
to providing a caring, compassionate, and professional service. we have a mandate, don t we? from god to do something. dr chris richards is an nhs paediatrician and the director of the centre. ..and deliver those who are drawn towards death and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. we know what s going on. here he explains how the use of ultrasound scans in crisis pregnancy centres in america has helped convince women there not to have abortions. the power of ultrasound amongst the population, particularly in the states, has had a profound effect. the heartbeat appears at three weeks and five or six days. it s the size of a poppy seed but it doesn t look like that on the scan because you see this quite big image going at about sort of 100, 120 beats per minute. crisis pregnancy centres in the uk are very much modelled on crisis pregnancy