Cedar River Clinics is running a "Pledge-a-Picket" drive that uses the anti-abortion picketers out in front of their clinics (in Renton and Yakima) to bring money in, which is clever.

http://www.cedarriverclinics.org/

I really think that Planned Parenthood should counter these fake clinics with matching billboards, located as close as possible to these Christian ones, saying "Afraid you might be pregnant? Stay away from "Your Options"; they will lie to you. Visit a real health clinic like Planned Parenthood. We'll tell you the WHOLE story".

I think the GOP should link defunding PP to DNA-tested mandatory child care payments from fathers. You make a baby, your wages are garnished.

Another idea, to ape the tactics of those who hate all life except the human fetus & the comatose-- get some old trucks or vans, and attach large signs to them. Park these near the location of the propaganda clinics. Pay for all-day parking.

The upfront investment may be a bit much, but certainly well within the means of any pro-choice group. It doesn't require a lot of labor, it puts the message right where it needs to go, and it costs a lot less than a billboard.

This is not news: the "Neighborhood Temple Priestesses" are Bat-Shit Crazy.

@3, put a big graphic of a coat hanger on the sides, with the words "this is your women's health clinic if these religious nuts get their way".

Wonder if I could get away with running a suicide helpline that told kids they should probably just kill themselves? How about a legal defense fund for the disenfranchised... but only if they plead guilty? Those are essentially as helpful as these Christian-run pregnancy centers.

#2: That happens right now in WA to the fathers of children on welfare. The mothers are required to "give up" the name(s) of potential father(s) who are then ordered by court, via the KC Prosecutor's office, to submit to paternity testing. If proved to be the father, their wages are garnished to repay the welfare debt. This practice zeroes in on the poor, does not repay the welfare debt in amounts sufficient to justify the cost of testing, and defaulting (when they don't respond to summons) named fathers who are often - like the welfare moms - at poverty level. Many quit their jobs when garnished at 50% and go underground, accruing for the rest of their lives a welfare debt they cannot ever meet - often with no proof of parntage, simply by default because they were named and did not respond to the summons. The county provides no legal counsel for them, while an entire division of the KCPA works on hunting them down. The whole concept is focused on getting money they don't have out of people already at poverty level and completely ignores - and even rewards - deadbeat parents who can afford legal counsel, or who craftily ignore the summons, get "defaulted" and are ordered to pay child support based on the average income for their gender and age and race. If you're well off or even middle class, allowing the default cheats the mother and child out of reasonable support based on true income figures, by defaulting to the lower figures on the age/race table.

Long story short, we already do what you suggest - make paternity establishment mandatory - but only as a punishment for the poor and a requirement to continue receiving welfare.