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Melinda L. Bloos's avatar

Thom - thank you and yours for compiling and organizing this information. Bringing these background operations into the foreground is so imperative for people to get past the rhetoric. When they didn’t have enough support for their fabricated religious agenda just through radicalization, they went after the money. The transfer of tax payer funds slotted for public programs, and the general public at large, into narrow-minded, dishonest, extreme right-wing organizations is the same pattern happening in education and other parts of society. In education, the grift in K-12 has now shifted to focus on colleges and universities, heartbreakingly for some of us starting w New College in FL. They are robbing all of us, harming those in need and often hiding what they are doing w the money. Thank you, thank you for your tireless role in exposing this!

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Docliz's avatar

My experience of many years as a female physician providing gynaecological/obstetric care to young women supports everything in your column. Nothing “noble” about these lies—such behaviour disrespects women and manipulates them.

One more rotten lie: “We’ll take care of you”. In such a centre I was familiar with, young women were told that they would receive assistance with housing, income and job finding if they continued the pregnancy. It was a lie; young women with a newborn had to seek welfare and low-end housing. And yes, they were much more likely to stay with an abusive partner.

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