Don't Be Fooled By Fake Clinics Action Series: Hold a Film Screening

This April Fools' Day, make sure that women on your campus don't get fooled by fake clinics and put together a simple, yet informational event: a film screening and teach-in.

We have two videos on our website that would teach people who aren't already familiar with CPCs a lot about their deceptive practices. The first is called, "Our Reality: A Look at Crisis Pregnancy Centers" and the second is called, "Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A special Report" Both were produced by FMF in conjunction with Stuart Productions and featured on RH Reality Check.

1. Contact your Student Affairs or Student Activities office and see what the procedures are for screening a film for the public.

2. Reserve a space! Maybe it will be in a classroom, the women's resource center, or an auditorium. See what you need to do to hold the event in this space. Make sure there is a projector that you can hook up to your computer.

3. Make flyers and publicize the event. Make an eye-catching flyer announcing when and where the film screening will be. Post them on campus and hand them out when you are tabling. Make announcements in classrooms and ask professors if they will give their students extra credit for attending the screening.

4. Buy some yummy snacks! Popcorn, chips, licorice, ice cream, pizza. Go wild, budget permitting.

5. Screen the films and then hold a discussion about it. How do people feel about about what they have just seen? What are the inital thoughts? Make sure that you have brushed up on your facts so that you can field any questions. Do people want to take some action on the issue?

6. Formulate a plan. Whats next? Have the people at the screening get involved with the campaign to expose fake clinics. What actions do they want to do after seeing those films? Don't know where to start, check out the rest of our action series!

Our Reality: A Look at Crisis Pregnancy Centers from RH Reality Check on Vimeo.

Stony Brook FMLA Takes Action on Anti-abortion Misinformation!

As you may have read in Tania's earlier post, the anti-choice organization, Human Life Alliance, has taken to purchasing ad space for full-page inserts overflowing with false, misleading, anti-abortion misinformation in college newspapers! The sickening trend was written about by Robin Marty here on RH Reality Check.

When Meghan Shalvoy, President of the Stony Brook Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA), saw one of these bogus inserts in her school paper, she took action!

Meghan has been circulating fact sheets with medically accurate information, gathering petitions and writing op-eds for campus publications. Now her activities have been featured on RH Reality Check !

Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) and anti-abortion organizations like Human Life Alliance are constantly targeting women on college campuses with their false information. To learn how you can take action on your campus, read Meghan's story and join the FMF's Campaign to Expose Fake Clinics.

Mother's Day at an Abortion Clinic

Our Reality: Mother's Day at an Abortion Clinic from RH Reality Check on Vimeo.

Great post from RH Reality Check about the experiences of clinic escorts on Mother's Day in Louisville, Kentucky. A special thank you to Alex Kindell with Northern Kentucky University's Students for Choice for the link and her continued commitment as a clinic escort. Like so many of you, Alex volunteers her time every month to protect the rights of women and their bodies. Thank you, escorts!