{"id":389,"date":"2011-10-18T23:38:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T06:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2011-10-18T23:38:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T06:38:35","slug":"sf-supes-act-to-protect-women-from-deceptive-clinic-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"SF Supes Act to Protect Women from Deceptive Clinic Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance on October 18 prohibiting False Advertising By Limited Services Pregnancy Centers<\/a>\u00a0 to protect women from misleading ads by anti-abortion centers.\u00a0 (click on the link above\u00a0to see the\u00a0text of the ordinance, and statements for the record from the Trust Women\/Silver Ribbon Campaign and others.) Anti-abortion organizations like First Resort have bought ads online using terms including “abortion San Franciso,” although abortions are not provided and are actively opposed.\u00a0 Women misled by the ads could lose precious time mistakenly visiting such falsely advertised sites, and some have reported upsetting and manipulative treatment.<\/p>\n

Despite the attendance at the Supervisors meeting of numerous staff and supporters of First Resort, 10 of the 11 members voted “Yes” on the ordinence, originally sponsored by Supv. Malia Cohen.\u00a0 The measure was advanced to the full Board after a committee vote in September, with Supv. Eric Mar voting in favor.<\/p>\n

Most\u00a0of the Board members spoke briefly as they stated their vote.\u00a0 Supv. Scott Wiener pointed out that\u00a0the\u00a0fake “clinics” and their deceptive ads are part of an array of tactics by opponents of\u00a0legal abortion to place deliberate obstacles in the path of women who have decided on that option.\u00a0 Extreme proposals to delay, obstruct and re-criminalize abortion are proliferating at the national and state-levels, calling for a concerted response by advocates for choice.\u00a0 Supv. Sean Elsbernd was the lone vote in opposition.<\/p>\n

NARAL California, BACORR, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH). the\u00a0Trust Women\/Silver Ribbon Campaign and scores of other\u00a0organizations and thousands of residents worked to pass the ordinance.<\/p>\n

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San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance on October 18 prohibiting False Advertising By Limited Services Pregnancy Centers\u00a0 to protect women from misleading ads by anti-abortion centers.\u00a0 (click on the link above\u00a0to see the\u00a0text of the ordinance, and statements … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}