Fake Clinic Lemonade Stand

05.24.2024

 

The definition of a fake clinic by the National Library of Medicine is: ​​“The establishment of “fake abortion clinics” poses a great threat to women’s ability to make free and informed procreative decisions. Such clinics intentionally deceive pregnant women into believing that they provide a full range of women’s health services when, in reality, they provide only a pregnancy test, accompanied by intense anti-abortion propaganda.” Host a free lemonade stand outside of your local fake clinic. 

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My iteration of this conceptual community art piece took place Friday May 24th at the Savannah Care Center on E 34th Street and Drayton Street in Savannah, GA (a registered fake clinic on ExposeFakeClinics.com).

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This community art piece is also a part of a partnership that I did with PlanC.org to create to-go bags full of resources to give out with lemonade.

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This piece also occurred congruent with the newly proposed Louisiana bill that would classify abortion pills (that are safer than Tylenol and Viagra) in the same category as controlled substances like Xanax and Valium. This is the first bill of its kind that we have seen come out of a state, and it is predicted to spread to other states. Sharing self-managed abortion pill resources with communities in hostile reproductive health environments is more important now than ever before.

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The lemonade stand phenomenon’s roots in ideas of self-reliance and the American Dream inspired this idea. As a trend that was started by young girls, providing free resources in this version in the modern age questions the ideals that American women are taught and how we grow up to realize that the systems in place don’t support our physical well-being, especially considering the fact that many of these “clinics” are funded by public and state funding (for example, after the 2022 Dobbs Supreme Court decision, the state of Florida increased their budget from $4 million to about $20 million).
And really, who can get mad at a lemonade stand?

To find fake clinics near you (also often called Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Anti-Abortion Centers amongst many other names) please visit ExposeFakeClinics.com.

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