Local Waitrose supporting anti-abortion charity

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Waitrose gives shoppers tokens to drop into collecting points to support local charities. My local Waitrose is currently supporting a 'pregnancy counselling service'. I checked the 'charity's' website, which has all the usual guff about offering 'impartial advice', then checked their parent company and discovered that it's run by these guys.

AIBU to think Waitrose should check the credentials of 'charities' before collecting on their behalf? I imagine there would be outrage if Waitrose openly supported a charity like Abortion Rights, whose name does what it says on the tin.

Have tried to contact someone at my local store, but relevant person is 'away until Wednesday'. Meanwhile the collection points will continue to operate and unwary shoppers will be supporting a 'charity' that is concealing its true agenda.

Have name changed for this, but am MN regular.

Sorry for your experience, cheesecake, but I don't think a single anecdote is sufficient to prove your assertion that 'a lot of people are pro abortion'.

Generally, that terminology is used almost exclusively by anti-abortionists with the intention of reinforcing their rhetoric. How do you feel about being described as a 'forced-birther' rather than 'pro-life'. Hopefully, you won't mind, as it's just 'semantics'.

For most pro-choicers there is an important distinction. I'm happy to be described as pro-choice, but not as 'pro-abortion'. Please don't reduce that distinction to 'semantics'. The two phrases have entirely different meanings.

if the GP had said 'You must have an abortion it will be brilliant I will arrange it now' you may have a point

they didn't - they offered you a choice - which you didn't accept - so it's not pro abortion more pro choice - :)

I think the GP should have asked "Do you want to continue with the pregnancy?". This is what my GP asked me. As the pregnancy was much wanted and planned, I was a little surprised, but understand why he asked.