Cuccinelli accepts the Virginia Republican Party’s gubernatorial nomination. (AP Photo)

A so-called “crisis pregnancy center” in Manassas, Va. was recorded by a national pro-choice group telling big ol’ lies about abortion and birth control. Yes, there’s a Ken Cuccinelli connection.

NARAL Pro-Choice’s Virginia and America groups released audio this week they say was recorded at a crisis pregnancy center in June. Here are some of the choice lies and questionable statements a reperesentative shared:

  • Condoms are “naturally porous” and do not protect against STDs
  • Women who have taken the birth-control pill for four years prior to their first pregnancy have a 46% increased risk of breast cancer
  • Having an abortion will damage all of your future relationships
  • “I try to talk women out of taking birth control”
  • If you have an abortion, you will see that child’s soul again in the future: “At the end of the world you’re gonna know that was my child that I choose to kill”
  • A NARAL investigation of crisis pregnancy centers from June 2012 to June 2013 found that the majority of these clinics gave out “medically-inaccurate information.”

    These crisis pregnancy centers are funded in part through the sale of “Choose Life” license plates. The legislation to establish these plates was sponsored by Cuccinelli, then a Virginia state senator, now attorney general and perhaps future governor.

    From a 2009 Associated Press story about the legislation:

    Republican Sen. Kenneth Cuccinelli attached the proposal onto a bill that also would add plates honoring the Washington Capitals, the Blue Ridge Parkway and others to the 200 specialty plates the department already offers.

    Under law, more than 350 people must sign up for a plate before DMV can produce it. Cuccinelli said 450 people have prepaid for the plate.

    After the first 1,000 plates are sold, $15 of the $25 fee would go to crisis pregnancy centers.

    After the law passed, Cuccinelli told the Washington Times, “I was pretty pleased with it.” He added that his wife wanted one.

    NARAL Pro-Choice America’s president Ilyse Hogue said in a release the audio is ” yet another example of [Cuccinelli] prioritizing his ideological agenda above his commitment to serve the women and men of Virginia.”

    “Does he support lying to women? Does he agree with the completely false claims about women’s health spread by many of these CPCs? Cuccinelli can’t duck these questions forever.”