Among the services provided at Marisol are comprehensive OB/GYN and prenatal care, fertility awareness and infertility care, STD testing, counseling, ultrasounds, and mental health services.
Care is provided regardless of a woman's ability to pay, McIntosh noted. According to Marisol, 45 percent of their patients have no income or an income of less than $15,000 a year, while 76 percent are on Medicaid or are without insurance.
"We want to take back the true meaning of reproductive care for women," McIntosh added. "Marisol Health has what women deserve, a clinic that is staffed by licensed medical professionals and offers compassionate care."
Dede Chism is the co-founder and executive director of Bella Natural Women's Care and Family Wellness, which partners with Marisol Health.
She said that both Bella and Marisol "exist to fill the need for dignified, life-affirming healthcare, providing a broad scope of comprehensive obstetric and gynecological health care."
The need for this kind of care is great among women of all religious, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, Chism said, citing the 5,000-plus patients that have come to Bella in the past three and half years since they opened their doors.
"Across the lifespan of women from early adolescence through menopause, as a staff of board-certified and board-eligible physicians, midwives, nurse practitioners, certified ultrasonographers, registered nurses, we focus on the highest standards, cutting edge research that actually takes place within our facilities, and scientific methods that are both natural and cooperate with a woman's body," she said.
Chism invited anyone with doubts about Marisol or Bella's quality of care to visit the clinics and see for themselves and "experience what is health care is all about."
Norton said as of May 23 he had not received a response from ProgressNow regarding his May 17 cease and desist letter, and added that he is prepared to continue to prosecute ProgressNow in order to repair any damage caused to Marisol and Bella by the video.
Earlier this month, Marisol also responded to billboards in Denver that warned against crisis pregnancy centers, calling them "Fake Health Centers." The billboards, in English and Spanish, were sponsored by the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR), a group also associated with the creation of the ProgressNow video, which it has embedded on its website.
A representative from COLOR told Fox News in Denver that they considered the crisis pregnancy clinics fake because they do not offer "abortion care" in their facilities and often lack trained medical professionals.
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The video from ProgressNow also comes at a time when the Supreme Court is deciding a case called National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra, which will decide whether a California law mandating that pro-life pregnancy centers post information about abortion is a violation of the First Amendment and free speech rights.
Similar laws, such as one in Baltimore, have been struck down in courts as unconstitutional.
Correction: A previous version of this story identified the creator of Marisol as Catholic Charities of Colorado, instead of Catholic Charities of Denver. It has since been updated.
Mary Farrow worked as a staff writer for Catholic News Agency until 2020. She has a degree in journalism and English education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.