I think it is very very unethical when counselling is offerred as 'unbiased' by a charity...

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that is Christian and has a clear anti-abortion stance.

I saw a post by an MNer who has clearly been through an awful lot, and she is going through CAREconfidential who offer unplanned pregnancy and post abortion counselling.

It makes me rage when I think that seriously distressed women, often in crisis, take a lifeline they think will be genuinely no strings, when in fact there is a total bias.

They are also anti gay marriage and anti-euthanasia etc etc.

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sigh. I really do think there is nothing at all Christian about this organisation at all, as one of the fundamental values that I have absorbed is about honesty, which involves a large degree of transparency.

completely agree sophable. that point had occured to me - so on that thread I deliberately didn't suggest looking for an organisation offering post-abortion counselling, but going to GPs.

Yes- that's incredibly wrong, isn't it?

And also highly manipulative, as they are targeting women in an emotional and needy state!

i didn't feel it appropriate to rant on that thread, and I COMPLETELY understand why women turn to organisations calling themselves 'pregnancy crisis' etc.

it took a lot of digging around for me to discover that they do have an anti-abortion stance and that makes my blood boil

women have enough to deal with without some hidden agenda governing the counselling that they have.

as a nearly fully paid up psychotherapist (one year to go) I feel it goes against everything that counselling should stand for (being there with the client, being transparent about where I am coming from as a counsellor, certainly not having any kind of agenda that directly affects the clients material without my explicitly informing them of it) and it really enrages me to see counselling being denigrated in this way.

this organisation may well offer good counselling to women in need, but they completely take away from that by not being open and honest about where they are coming from as an organisation.

grrrr.