The New Jersey Monitor is a nonprofit, supposedly nonpartisan news site, that claims to be serving the residents of New Jersey as a journalistic watchdog striving to hold powerful people accountable. Last week, on January 17, unfortunately, they failed in their mission. This is most dramatically captured in their headline that undermines and smears the reputation of women’s crisis pregnancy centers throughout our state.  

“Deceptive marketing by crisis pregnancy centers prompts bills, consumer alert” 

Link to article: https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/01/17/deceptive-marketing-by-crisis-pregnancy-centers-prompts-bills-consumer-alert/  

These centers don’t use deceptive marketing. They advertise themselves as pregnancy resources centers. Many of them offer ultrasounds performed by registered nurses and have licensed physicians serving as medical directors to oversee patient care policies.

Instead of a headline holding accountable the Attorney General Matt Platkin for his unwarranted “consumer alert” targeting the godly work of these local clinics, the New Jersey Monitor decided to protect the powerful office of the Attorney General by repeating the false and misleading accusations that these prolife women’s crisis pregnancy centers are “deceptive”.  

Their distortive narrative reinforces the political targeting of these centers executed by the Attorney General Matt Platkin and shields politicians such as Assemblywomen Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D-Mercer), Mila Jasey (D-Essex), and Ellen Park (D-Bergen) who introduced a bill that would criminalize these centers for advertising themselves to women who are facing an unplanned pregnancy.

Contact the New Jersey Monitor and let them know that political clickbait headlines flies in the face of their own claims to hold accountable policy makers and public officials.