In Maryland, pro-choicers have pushed for a bill that would require so-called “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” to inform women that they are not health care providers and that they are under no legal obligation to tell the truth. In practice, these centers routinely lie to women in order to coerce them out of terminating their pregnancies. They pose as health care providers when they aren’t, offering ultrasounds but not having qualified doctors on site to actually read them. They flat-out lie about abortion and contraception.

So it would be nice if they were required to tell the truth, but of course that won’t happen. The last part of the article, though, is pretty great:

Delegate Joseph Bartlett, a Frederick County Republican, said the centers should be able to continue to operate normally.

“The premise that we’re going to require these organizations to disclaim that they don’t have to tell the truth is just about the silliest thing I ever heard,” he said. “We certainly don’t do that in the case of politicians, do we?”

Well, no, we don’t, but perhaps we should.