Figuring out how to get good health care can be hard enough under everyday circumstances, much less when you need an abortion. In that case, it makes sense that you might jump at anyone’s offer to help you figure out your options. Unfortunately, that could lead you to a crisis pregnancy center.

Also known as CPCs, these centers don’t actually perform abortions. Instead, CPCs offer counseling from an anti-choice (and typically religious) standpoint in an attempt to get people to continue their pregnancies. They often target those who might have the hardest time getting adequate medical care, such as young people, people of color, and those with low incomes.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with considering each and every option available to you when you’re pregnant and if you're not sure you want to be or definitely sure you don’t want to be. The issue is that since CPCs are inherently anti-choice, they don’t present people with all of the information they might need to make the best decision for themselves.

It’s become particularly confusing to differentiate real abortion clinics from crisis pregnancy centers. Although the exact number of U.S. CPCs is hard to pin down, they’re thought to outnumber actual abortion-providing facilities (including hospitals, doctors’ offices, and abortion clinics), which scientists from the Guttmacher Institute pinned at 1,671 in 2014. Many CPCs have gotten smarter and trickier about using language to appear like real medical clinics. And it doesn’t help that in 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that crisis pregnancy centers in California do not have to disclose exactly which services they do and don’t provide, which many see as a move that could embolden CPCs across the country.

So if you or someone you love needs an abortion, how can you figure out where to access one? Here are a few signs that the “abortion clinic” you may be considering might actually be a crisis pregnancy center.

1. They run ads asking if you’re pregnant, scared, and need help.

This type of ad is often a telltale sign of a crisis pregnancy center, Heather Shumaker, J.D., senior counsel with the National Women’s Law Center, tells SELF.

That’s exactly what drew Jasmine Clemons, 35, to a crisis pregnancy center when she was 22. She’d already struck out twice when looking for abortion care: Her gynecologist’s office dismissed her, and an abortion at the private clinic in town would cost her a month’s rent. When she saw a sign on her college campus that said “Pregnant and need help?” with a phone number, Clemons thought it was her last option. The red flags started stacking up quickly once she visited the center.

“It looked like a small business office, so I was confused,” Clemons tells SELF. “I sat in this room, and [a staffer] asked me about my faith, my family, and my relationship.”

The staffer then used these details to try to change Clemons’s mind.

“When I said I wanted an abortion because I was young and worked retail, she asked me how God and my family would feel about that,” Clemons says. “She took all these answers that I gave her about my personal life and flipped them on me. It made me feel even more dejected. I left and cried in my car. I can still feel the anger I felt that day.”

Clemons eventually got the care she needed after realizing her health insurance would cover an abortion with a manageable co-pay, though she had to travel hours away to an in-network clinic. "I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't thought to look into my health insurance," Clemons says.