A Tauranga counselling centre director is stunned a website has listed her service as a place refusing to provide abortions and contraception and says it is not the case at all.

The newly-launched MyDecision.org.nz invites people seeking services like contraception or abortion to report experiences of hostile or unhelpful health professionals to the website.

Women can anonymously share pregnancy stories online and submit providers they claim have refused or disapproved of services.

Tauranga's Pregnancy Choice Centre is listed on the site's database as a centre allegedly refusing to providing reproductive health care services, or publicly support such action.

The only Tauranga service listed, is one of six Bay of Plenty listings, which also name four doctors and a nurse from Rotorua.

Pregnancy Choice Centre director Janice Tetley-Jones says her centre provides support to all pregnant women – regardless of what they choose when it comes to sex and pregnancy.

'It makes no sense to me at all because we go out of way to be unbiased and to enable people to make a choice for themselves – so there is nobody that is turned away.

'This listing is so the opposite to what we're doing,” says Janice.

'It is concerning to me that people can make anonymous allegations against any pregnancy centre or medical practitioner without any acceptable standard of proof,” says Janice.

'As in our case, we are just providing information and support to those facing a crisis pregnancy.”

Janice says the centre strongly believes it's the woman's choice to decide on her and her baby's future, 'but how can she make a wise decision if she is not fully informed and have support to back up her decision?”

'Some women tell us they feel they have ‘no choice' because they are not supported. We are here to enable their choice.”

Janice says the centre has only received positive feedback and has never entered the abortion debate.

'It's just not what we're about – everyone's got their opinion and we've just taken the middle road and said: ‘How about we're just here to offer help and support and information and keep out the debate?'.

'But people seem to want to try and align you with different things.”

Tauranga spokesperson for the Abortion Law Reform Association, and My Decision co-organiser, Alison McCulloch, says the website protects patients seeking reproductive healthcare assistance.

Alison says she's unsure of the background behind Pregnancy Choice Centre listing on the website but says organisers will trust people to be fair in their submissions.

'We just list the name of people who've been reported to us – we don't go into details about what happened – and the front of website is where stories will go but those will be anonymised, so we don't have who reported it and who they're talking about.”

'It's to protect those who make appointments with people – we're not just about abortion but contraception requests and such like – from providers – and not just doctors but pharmacists and so on – who conscientiously object and are unwilling to provide the service.

'That just hinders that person in the care they're trying to get; they have to start again and try to find somebody who will deal with them fairly.”

Alison says the website also invites doctors and others who 'conscientiously object” to some services to list what options they do and do not offer.

'So we're hoping it will build from here and those who do conscientiously object will report and list themselves."

MyDecision spokesperson Terry Bellamak says from a consumer protection standpoint it makes no sense to keep potential patients in the dark about healthcare providers' intentions.

'Conscientious objectors who agree can demonstrate their good faith by registering on our site.”

Terry says the project was sparked in part by a 2010 court judgment expanding conscientious objection rights of doctors, and the Medical Council's subsequent decision not to mount a challenge, or publish doctors' conscientious objection status on its website.

'In the spirit of the old ‘Hot and Cold Doctor files' compiled by women's health activists in the 1970s, we decided we'd have to do this work ourselves.”