John Oliver takes on “crisis pregnancy centers”

Few things stick in my craw as much as the predatory charlatanism of anti-choice zealots who set up fake abortion clinics to deceive and bully women into keeping a pregnancy they want to terminate. We’ve seen some good smackdowns of these “crisis pregnancy centers”, such as from Sam Bee and Patton Oswalt, and now John Oliver lays down the truth in his latest episode, with a characteristically theatrical finish:

Only in America can religious vultures set up fake medical clinics, staff them with actors pretending to be qualified physicians, and blatantly lie to desperate people who come to them in need of medical assistance or guidance, and not only be allowed to do so under the law but even receive taxpayer funding for it. It’s a crowning achievement of mendacious bullshit. It’s also a clear indicator of Christianity’s privileged position in the US that so few people know or care about these centers – imagine the reaction if some other group (say, Muslims) tried to pull the same stunt.