“Come on in my love, someone will be with you shortly,” a woman says, welcoming me into a ‘crisis centre’ for women with unwanted pregnancies in a suburb of Mexico City. "I'm going to give you a hug," she adds, with a kiss on the cheek.

The woman’s greeting is warm and it chimes with the centre’s online advertising, on a website called interrumpir-embarazo.com (‘interrupt-pregnancy.com’), as “a group of women who know how difficult it is to face an unwanted pregnancy”, who promise to “accompany you, with security and discretion”.

This website also suggests that the centre performs abortions itself. Top of the list of its advertised services is “ILE”, the Spanish acronym for ‘legal pregnancy interruption’. But this is all very misleading, as I discovered.

This centre in Mexico City is not, in fact, a neutral, local support group or an abortion provider. Rather, it is part of a global network of anti-abortion ‘crisis pregnancy centres’, supported by US religious-right activists that have links to the administration of Donald Trump. Many also oppose modern contraception.

This network has been condemned by lawmakers, doctors and rights advocates for “disinformation, emotional manipulation and outright deceit”, following an eighteen-country investigation by openDemocracy.