John Oliver creates 'Vanned Parenthood' to expose crisis pregnancy centers

Maeve McDermott | USA TODAY

With his new faux-organization, John Oliver wants to expose crisis pregnancy centers that he says are hurting women.

Oliver dedicated Sunday's Last Week Tonight episode to these centers, discussing how they use misleading information to confuse women about their pregnancy options, even building offices next to abortion clinics and parking mobile centers in front of clinics in attempts to lure women in.

"What is happening with CPCs is that, way too often, women with unplanned pregnancies are being actively misled when trying to access health care," Oliver explained. "And CPCs seem happy to have women confuse them for abortion clinics."

To prove his point about how easy it is for religious organizations and other groups to set up CPCs, which are largely unregulated by the government, Oliver, who in 2015 registered his own church (Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption) with the IRS, has now registered his own CPC. He dubbed it "Our Lady of Choosing Choice" and named his fake mobile CPC "Vanned Parenthood."

To explain further, Oliver brought back his fake TV preacher wife Wanda Jo (Saturday Night Live alumna Rachel Dratch) from his 2015 segment on shady televangelists to drive the Vanned Parenthood mobile and dispense incredibly bad information.

A sample piece of "advice": “I tell women if they get an abortion, it’ll make a ghost baby that’ll haunt their hoo-ha forever!”

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