To: Physicians and healthcare staff at Fairhope Gynecology and Obstetrics
Patient Petition to stop Fairhope Gynecology and Obstetrics' sponsorship of Walk for Life
PETITION TO FAIRHOPE GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS
Withdraw Your Sponsorship of the Women's Care Medical Center Walk for Life Event
To: The Physicians and Leadership of Fairhope Gynecology & Obstetrics
We, the undersigned current patients of Fairhope Gynecology & Obstetrics, write with profound disappointment. We chose this practice because we believed it shared our values: patient autonomy, evidence-based care, and a commitment to the full spectrum of women's reproductive health. We are therefore shocked to learn that this clinic is sponsoring a "Walk for Life" event organized by Women's Care Medical Center (WCMC) — an organization whose agenda directly contradicts all of those values.
We demand that Fairhope Gynecology & Obstetrics immediately and publicly withdraw its sponsorship.
Why is this important?
WCMC actively supports Alabama's abortion ban — with no exceptions for rape or incest. This ban carries penalties of up to 99 years in prison for providers and has created a documented crisis in all pregnancy-related care. Doctors across Alabama are delaying or denying standard miscarriage treatment for fear of prosecution, since miscarriage and abortion are often clinically indistinguishable. Alabama already has the third-highest maternal mortality rate in the nation. Nearly half of all pregnancy-related criminal prosecutions in the U.S. in the first year after Dobbs came from Alabama alone.
WCMC is a Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC). WCMC is not a neutral healthcare resource. It is a pro-life advocacy organization operating under the guise of medical care. Sponsoring their public events is not a charitable act — it is a medical ethics issue.
Women's Care Medical Center presents itself as a pregnancy resource clinic. What it actually operates as is what medical and public health professionals describe as a "crisis pregnancy center" (CPC) — a category of facility specifically designed to intercept people facing unplanned pregnancies and steer them away from abortion, and often away from contraception, using tactics that medical authorities have repeatedly condemned as deceptive and harmful.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) — the foremost authority governing the specialty practiced at your clinic — has formally identified CPCs as institutions that "use deception, delay tactics, and disinformation," undermining "the tenets of informed consent and patient autonomy." According to ACOG's data, 71% of CPCs use deceptive means.
WCMC is a Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC). WCMC is not a neutral healthcare resource. It is a pro-life advocacy organization operating under the guise of medical care. Sponsoring their public events is not a charitable act — it is a medical ethics issue.
Women's Care Medical Center presents itself as a pregnancy resource clinic. What it actually operates as is what medical and public health professionals describe as a "crisis pregnancy center" (CPC) — a category of facility specifically designed to intercept people facing unplanned pregnancies and steer them away from abortion, and often away from contraception, using tactics that medical authorities have repeatedly condemned as deceptive and harmful.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) — the foremost authority governing the specialty practiced at your clinic — has formally identified CPCs as institutions that "use deception, delay tactics, and disinformation," undermining "the tenets of informed consent and patient autonomy." According to ACOG's data, 71% of CPCs use deceptive means.
WCMC runs an abstinence-only program targeting Baldwin County students. Under the name "Optimal Truth of WCMC" (baldwincountysra.org), WCMC operates a federally-defined "Sexual Risk Avoidance" program — abstinence-only education rebranded — aimed at middle and high schoolers across all Baldwin County public schools. Part of the curriculum is to burn paper hearts in the classroom, telling students that they "will never be whole again" if they have sex before marriage and that contraception isn't safe. Alabama's own public health data shows this approach is failing: the state has the 5th-highest teen birth rate in the nation and ranks 7th in overall STD rates, 4th in gonorrhea. Federal investigations have found that over 80% of abstinence-only curricula contain false or misleading information about reproductive health. The downstream consequences walk into your exam rooms every day.
We are not asking you to take a political position. We are asking you to uphold your medical ones. Sponsoring WCMC's March for Life is incompatible with the ethics of your specialty, the standards of ACOG, and the trust your patients have placed in you.
Withdraw your sponsorship. Stand with your patients.
Signed, the undersigned current patients of Fairhope Gynecology & Obstetrics
Sources: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG); AMA Journal of Ethics; National Library of Medicine / PMC; CDC; Alabama Department of Public Health; ACLU of Alabama; Yellowhammer Fund; Birmingham Free Press; World Population Review; Alabama Reflector; Pregnancy Justice; and WCMC's own public websites including womenscaremedicalcenter.org and baldwincountysra.org.
Sources: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG); AMA Journal of Ethics; National Library of Medicine / PMC; CDC; Alabama Department of Public Health; ACLU of Alabama; Yellowhammer Fund; Birmingham Free Press; World Population Review; Alabama Reflector; Pregnancy Justice; and WCMC's own public websites including womenscaremedicalcenter.org and baldwincountysra.org.