From CTV, via Options for Sexual Health:
Volunteers at a Surrey Christian charity are warning women about risks of abortion that may be common in back-alley operations but are rare in modern Canadian clinics, a CTV News hidden camera investigation has revealed.
Warnings of catastrophically scarred uteruses that would leave a woman infertile are not realistic in a legal abortion, doctors say, but that was one of the risks discussed with a volunteer counsellor at the South Fraser Pregnancy Options Centre.
"Thankfully that's a rare condition in Canada in modern times," medical ethicist Dr. Dan Reilly told CTV News in an interview where the footage was discussed. "It's something you would see more in a place where abortions are being done not in a medical setting."
The Crisis Pregnancy Centre in Vancouver and the Surrey Pregnancy Options Centre in Surrey are both affiliated with the Canadian Association of Pregnancy Support Services, which operates about 80 such centres in Canada, serving an estimated 6,800 people a year.
But some providers of sexual health services have expressed concerns that these centres aren't giving women the full story.
To learn more about the advice offered by the charity, CTV News sent staff member Sheila with a hidden camera to the Christian group's centres in B.C.'s two biggest cities to pose as a pregnant woman in her first trimester with some questions.
During her two visits, Sheila heard that abortion is associated with risks ranging from breast cancer to depression to fetal body parts forgotten inside the womb.
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You can watch the CTV hidden camera investigation here: part 1 - part 2.
The program has since been suspended. Read about it here.