AP Stylebook Calls Crisis Pregnancy Centers 'Anti-Abortion Centers'

The Associated Press added an entry to its style guide directing journalists to put the term "crisis pregnancy center" in scare-quotes, and to use "anti-abortion center" instead, to convey that "the centers' general aim is to prevent abortions." The AP added this entry between Nov. 20 and Nov. 27, 2022. The guide describes the centers as "set up to divert or discourage women from having abortions" and warns writers against "potentially misleading terms" like "pregnancy resource centers or pregnancy counseling centers." Read more...


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