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Well, I was looking through the San Diego East County Yellowbook (not available online) and I remembered something I read about CPCs using some very dishonest tactics to get their names listed under "abortion services". As usual, they claim to be legitimate womens' health centers that provide healthcare and medically accurate information, but they also use confusing names and try to get in with real abortion providers. In phone books, they also try to make sure they're first on the aplhabetical list by having names like "AAA Abortion Center". So I checked the phone book for that, and this is what I found:



Yes! They separate the two categories and provide an explanation of each! They also seem to have made an effort to keep it balanced, as there are only two listings under each one. (One of which under "abortion providers" was Planned Parenthood, which is a really good resource.) This is pretty cool, and I'm proud of Yellowbook for doing it. In comparison, the same page on Yellowpages.com also separates the categories, but does not explain each one, and some of the links look a bit ambiguous/suspicious.

However, my Yellowpages are not perfectly unbiased or dedicated to exposing CPCs for what they are....



These are clippings from the "Community & Human Services" section. Note: There is not a single real abortion provider on this list. There are no family planning clinics. There are only these CPCs.

So while I'm really proud of their honesty in making and describing the two separate categories, I'm really disappointed that they put CPCs in there without any kind of a description. But at least none of the CPCs listed have totally dishonest names, right?

we have "abortion alternatives" and "adoption" but no actual listings for places that offer abortions. Even our women's health clinic is strongly pro-life (although if you twist their arm theyll put you in contact with a place about an hour and a half away. I tried it last appointment)