The Threat of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
to the Future of Abortion Access

part of Funding The Frontlines: A Roadmap To Supporting Health Equity Through Abortion Access

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Funding The Frontlines: A Roadmap To Supporting Health Equity Through Abortion Access

May 12, 2022
NYT Interactive Op-Ed: Pregnant? Need Help? They Have an Agenda.
By Carly Thomsen, Carrie N. Baker and Zach Levitt
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/12/opinion/crisis-pregnancy-centers-roe.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share

April 11, 2022
Ms. Magazine: The Threat of Crisis Pregnancy Centers Will Escalate in a Post-Roe U.S.
by Carrie N. Baker
https://msmagazine.com/2022/04/11/roe-v-wade-overturned-crisis-pregnancy-centers/

February 5, 2022
AP: Millions in tax dollars flow to anti-abortion centers in US
by Kimberlee Kruesi
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-business-health-nashville-personal-taxes-fffa6f6f86e6eaa448b8ea89087a1c46  

August 8, 2021
Ms. Magazine: Feminists Fight Fake Abortion Clinics: “No One Should Be Lied To”
by Carrie N. Baker and Juliet Schulman-Hall
https://msmagazine.com/2021/08/08/feminists-fight-fake-abortion-clinics-no-one-should-be-lied-to/

March 20, 2020
Vox: What “crisis pregnancy centers” really do 
by Anna North
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21146011/crisis-pregnancy-center-resource-abortion-title-x

August 29, 2019
Vox: Obria, the anti-abortion group that’s tapping into “wellness” culture, explained
by Anna North
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/29/20828866/obria-medical-clinics-birth-control-planned-parenthood

August 16, 2019
The Guardian: Inside the ‘fake clinics’ where women are persuaded to carry pregnancies to term 
by Khushbu Shah
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/16/georgia-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-centers

September 2012
Gutmacher Institute: The Public Health Risks of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
by Joanne D. Rosen
https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2012/09/public-health-risks-crisis-pregnancy-centers

April 24, 2012
The American Independent (via Huffington Post):Taxpayer-Funded Crisis Pregnancy Centers Using Religion To Oppose Abortion
by Sofia Resnick
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/abortion-religion-pregnancy-centers_n_1446506

The Alliance – State Advocates for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Designed to Deceive – A study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in 9 states
https://alliancestateadvocates.org/crisis-pregnancy-centers/

Crisis Pregnancy Center Watch

The Pregnancy Center Movement: History of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
https://www.motherjones.com/files/cpchistory2.pdf

Equity Forward

Mapping Deception: A Closer Look at How States’ Anti-Abortion Center Programs Operate 
https://equityfwd.org/research/mapping-deception-closer-look-how-states-anti-abortion-center-programs-operate

Lil Sis

Power map of the spheres of influence of anti-abortion organizations: https://littlesis.org/oligrapher/7439-anti-abortion-center-spheres-of-influence

NARAL: ProChoice America
Crisis Pregnancy Centers Lie: The Insidious Threat to Reproductive Freedom (2015)
https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cpc-report-2015.pdf 

National Library of Medicine
National Center for Biotechnology Information

Truth and Transparency in Crisis Pregnancy Centers 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784822/

A Web-Based Geolocated Directory of Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) in the United States: Description of CPC Map Methods and Design Features and Analysis of Baseline Data
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7148549/

Documentary
POV: On The Divide
https://www.pbs.org/pov/films/onthedivide/

Black Feminist Rants Podcast
Ep. 25: Abortion Storytelling and The Myth of “Pro-Life Feminism” w/ Renee Bracey Sherman
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-25-abortion-storytelling-and-the-myth-of/id1520060736?i=1000525793206

Funding the Frontlines:
A Roadmap to Supporting Health Equity
through Abortion Access

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