Teenage Journalists Expose Creepy Christian Van Lurking Outside High School

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/12/09/teenage-journalists-expose-creepy-christian-van-lurking-outside-high-school-2/

Teenage Journalists Expose Creepy Christian Van Lurking Outside High School
By Hemant Mehta, December 9, 2018

Here’s the power of inquisitive teenagers and a stellar school newspaper.

Recently, at California’s Arcata High School, three students noticed a van that parked across the street on Tuesdays. It was supposedly a mobile medical van that provided help for pregnant students. What sort of help? That’s what journalism students Jacquelyn Opalach, Caledonia Davey, and Jazmine Fiedler wanted to know.

Their eventual report in the school paper, the Pepperbox, found that the van was faith-based and full of misinformation. They wanted to catch students before they obtained an abortion and resorted to lies to convince the students not to go through with it.

J. Rophe Medical is a pro-life organization with religious ties. While some of the information provided by J. Rophe is accurate, other information is false or skewed. As a medical institution, J. Rophe operates with questionable medical ethics. Considering all of these factors, Pepperbox was left with this question: Should the J. Rophe Medical mobile unit be parked so close to a high school?

Several of the facts provided in [the group’s pamphlet] “Before you Decide” contradict the facts provided by both Planned Parenthood and other medical organizations. The Pepperbox analyzed several factual topics presented in this pamphlet, including when pregnancy begins, emergency contraception, the alleged association between abortion and breast cancer, and the alleged association between abortion and compromised mental and physical health.

While the van’s location may be legal since it’s not directly on school property, the students used the opportunity to inform fellow students about how the information they might find in the van doesn’t match up with reality. While noting that one of their classmates had a positive experience with the women in the van, they make clear that kindness doesn’t translate to medical accuracy.

https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2018/dec/6/arcata-high-pepperbox-van-when-religion-and-medici/

[exboyfil]

1. Planned Parenthood should park a

identified van next to it.

[Blue Owl]

2. He's not a gynecologist... but he'll take a look...

[JohnnyRingo]

10. hahahaha

It would be more appropriate if it were a white van. "Doctor" Lester will see you now.

[Loki Liesmith]

3. Completely ok with a religious group trying to convince

Pregnant students not to have abortions as long as they don’t use discredited science.

[pansypoo53219]

5. if they ain't gonna help PAY for said baby, they can GTFA

[volstork]

11. We have a winner!

You are 100% correct.

[erronis]

6. And are these religious groups also supplying condoms, IUDs, pregnancy avoidance advice?

Or are they like the rest of the "religious" "right" which want kids to make babies but don't want to support them when the inevitable happens.

[Loki Liesmith]

13. I don't see where that matters.

They’re arguing for a specific worldview that I don’t share. If someone buys it that’s on them.

[FakeNoose]

8. Not if they want babies - for adoption fees

Don't be naive and follow the money.

Just sayin'

[Major Nikon]

17. Here's my experience with the same type of people running the same scam

In 1988 my wife and I were trying to have our first child. The was way before you could just go to the local pharmacy and get a cheap and reliable pregnancy test kit. Keep in mind also the both of us have always been very frugal. Both of us believe strongly in a penny saved, is a penny earned. So my wife found a place that advertised free pregnancy testing. We had no idea they were religious freaks as nothing led us to believe that was the case. OK, so great that will save us some money having it done at the Dr. When we first came in they gave us a sheet to fill out and most of it seemed pretty routine medical questions. One of the questions was whether or not we were considering an abortion to which we answered no.

So the wife goes back and after the test was initiated we both were led into another room and were again asked if we were considering an abortion. By this time warning bells were going off. We told them empathically no, that we were trying to conceive and have a child. By this time we were more or less hostages, because while we could certainly leave we wouldn't find out the test results. They then proceed to show us a film on abortions and it was extremely graphic, not to mention quite a bit of junk science thrown in about the high risk of abortion. After a few minutes of this we threaten to walk out at which point they told us the results of the test were inconclusive.

We wound up going to a real doctor and got a real pregnancy test. Lesson learned there's no such thing as a free lunch or free pregnancy test.

The short version is I'm not OK with religious groups doing this and you can bet your bottom dollar they are going to lie to people. If you look at the van they are already lying by pretending to offer "medical" service and concealing the true nature of what they are really doing.

[Voltaire2]

19. They just use absolute horseshit.

You ok with that? “Pregnancy crisis centers” are notorious for lying coercing and intimidating their victims. But like they are good with god so it’s ok, right?

[caraher]

4. Good work

[sakabatou]

14. +10

[Pope George Ringo II]

18. Scooby Doo had the right explanation for everything magical.

It's a con-man trying to get rich by scaring people.

[Act_of_Reparation]

23. That show made me the man I am today.

Skeptical and fond of sandwiches. Deserves more credit than it gets.

[Tall Poppy]

7. Their message- we'll be there for you!

Have the baby, give it up, we sell it! No burden for you, lotsa cash for us.

[JohnnyRingo]

9. It's encouraging to see such young journalists with a future.

I won't deny the anti-abortion groups right to misinform students off campus, but if we're really going to thank God for something it's these young people shining a light on their tactics.

I'd say they made a difference, and that's commendable indeed. Kudos!

[Hassler]

12. Come on, would those smiling white women on the side of the van lie?

[elmac]

15. oh my, there phone number is clearly in sight

I wonder if they have prince Albert in a can

[ThoughtCriminal]

16. Looks Legit

Actually, this sample is probably more legit.

[Iggo]

20. Times have changed.

In my day, if you parked a van across the street from a school in an attempt to lure teenage girls, you were in line for an ass-beating.

[Act_of_Reparation]

21. Yeah, but whatabout grumpy internet atheists?

INTOLERANCE, AMIRITE?

[NeoGreen]

22. Heyyy...

...I'm not Grumpy.



That seems more of a description for an in-organic solid fully mature humanoid classified by its capability of producing small motile gametes, just sayin'