CPCs In the News
Watchdog group asks 5 attorneys general to investigate crisis pregnancy center privacy practices, NBC News, April 23, 2204
Anti-Abortion Extremists Are Diverting Tax Dollars to 'Crisis Pregnancy Centers', Ms. Magazine, April 17, 2024
Advocates, Researchers Detail the Damage Being Done by Crisis Pregnancy Centers: SXSW panelists urge it’s time to “dismantle, defund” CPCs, The Austin Chronicle, March 10, 2024
‘Preconceived’ Review: Illuminating Debut Doc Peeks Behind the Curtain of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Hollywood Reporter, March 9, 2024
Texas court dismisses Paxton lawsuit against Yelp over crisis pregnancy center labeling, The Hill, March 1, 2024
Tech Firms Must Take Action Against Dangerous Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Tech Policy Press, February 29, 2024
Anti-abortion centers raked in $1.4bn in year Roe fell, including federal money, The Guardian, February 14, 2024
The Anti-Abortion Movement Is in Crisis Communications Mode: Anti-abortion lawmakers and right-to-lifers are making crisis pregnancy centers a priority in 2024 messaging, Ms. Magazine, January 31, 2024
Attorney General Bonta Leads Coalition of 16 AGs in Open Letter Supporting Yelp Efforts to Provide Consumers Accurate Information about Crisis Pregnancy Centers, State of California, Department of Justice, October 23, 2023
Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are A Threat, Even if You Don’t Want An Abortion, Visible Magazine, October 18, 2023
California Brings First-of-its-Kind Lawsuit Against Anti-Abortion Movement’s ‘Abortion Pill Reversal’ Scheme, Ms. Magazine, October 6, 2023
How Anti-Abortion Centers Teach Sex Ed Inside Public Schools: ‘They Just Tried to Scare Us’, Ms. Magazine, October 4, 2023
Yelp sues Texas to keep crisis pregnancy center description labels, CBS News, September 28, 2023
Partisan battle grows over state funding for antiabortion centers, The Washington Post, September 14, 2023
Report: Columbus crisis pregnancy centers, funded by the state, show ‘gross inadequacies’, Ohio Capital Journal, September 5, 2023
‘Crisis pregnancy centers’ gain support, face new regulations, News21:America After Roe, September 4, 2023
Pennsylvania Governor Ends Contract With Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Crisis Center, Truthout, September 1, 2023
Anti-Abortion Centers Spent Over $600M in One Year. That’s the Tip of the Iceberg., Rewire, August 30, 2023
Abortion-ban states pour millions into pregnancy centers with little medical care, Stateline, August 24, 2023
Colorado Medical Board votes to make 'abortion reversal' unprofessional conduct, Colorado Politics, August 17, 2023
Pennsylvania governor stands up for abortion rights and defunds ‘crisis pregnancy centers’, The American Independent, August 8, 2023
How Fake Abortion Clinics Target People Seeking Abortion Care in Person and Online, Ms. Magazine, August 8, 2023
Illinois Law Holds Anti-Abortion ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ Accountable for Misinformation and Fraud, Ms. Magazine, July 28, 2023
Woman Sues Anti-Abortion 'Pregnancy Center' After Her Ectopic Pregnancy Ruptured, Jezebel, June 26, 2023
The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Pumping Resources into Promoting Fake Clinics—And Google Is Helping, Ms. Magazine, June 23, 2023
Google Shows You Ads for Anti-abortion Centers When You Search for Clinics Near You, NPR, June 22, 2023
Google Earned $10m from Ads Misdirecting Abortion Seekers to ‘Pregnancy Crisis Centers’, The Guardian, June 15, 2023
The Decisions We Forget, Slate, May 22, 2023
How to Spot Anti-Abortion 'Crisis Pregnancy' Centers, Medpage Today, May 2, 2023
Grassroots Progress to Hold Anti-Abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers Accountable, Ms., February 7, 2023
Google Targets Low-Income US Women with Ads for Anti-abortion Pregnancy Centers, Study Shows, The Guardian, February 7, 2023
‘It’s a Public Health Risk’: Nurse Decries Infection Control at US Anti-Abortion Crisis Center, The Guardian, February 2, 2023
How to Spot a CPC, and Why it Matters More Post-Roe, Popsugar, January 19, 2023
How Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Can Claim to Be Medical Clinics and Get Away With It, Reveal, December 15, 2022
She Went Undercover to a Crisis Pregnancy Center. They Told Her Abortion is Reversible., Jezebel, December 15, 2022
How Anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers Target Women Looking for Abortions, Business Insider, October 25, 2022
The Crisis Pregnancy Center Next Door, CNN, October 25, 2022
Anti-Abortion ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ Face New Accountability Post-Roe, Ms. Magazine, October 18, 2022
America Is Facing a Diaper Crisis, and the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Making It Worse, Yahoo!Finance, October 9, 2022
CPCs Are Running Ads on TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram, Teen Vogue, September 14, 2022
Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Are Expanding in the Post-Roe Era, Axios, August 19, 2022
Pregnant? Need Help? They Have An Agenda, New York Times, May 12, 2022
Crisis Pregnancy Centers, State-Funded Harm, and State-Based Solutions, The Regulatory Review, February 14, 2022
Pregnant? Need Help? They Have An Agenda, New York Times, May 12, 2022
Undercover Investigations
CPC in VA: Undercover Investigation Video
Repro Rising VA, 2018
Two students at the University of Mary Washington make an appointment at Choices Women's Center, a fake health clinic close to campus in Fredericksburg, Virginia. They expose a number of misinformation and shaming techniques used by the staff at the fake clinic.
Going Undercover at a Crisis Pregnancy Center
Olivia Rasner, Ms. Magazine, 2022
“I’m pregnant,” I lied, sitting across from a staffer at a Crisis Pregnancy Center.
“We’ll do everything we can to help,” she lied back.
I’m lying because I’m not actually pregnant. She’s lying because as a Crisis Pregnancy Center employee, her mission is to dissuade me from getting an abortion with false and dangerous information.
NBC Nightly News, 2022
NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden investigated centers in Texas, which are often affiliated with groups who support abortion alternatives. Crisis pregnancy centers say they provide free services and abortion information to pregnant women, however they do not offer the procedure itself. The centers are facing backlash by some Texas lawmakers who say they are not always medically accurate and are costly to taxpayers.
Documentaries
12th & Delaware
The abortion battle continues to rage in unexpected ways on one corner in an American city. On either side of 12th & Delaware, soldiers stand locked in passionate battle. On one side of the street is an abortion clinic. On the other, a pro-life outfit often mistaken for the clinic it seeks to shut down. Using skillful cinéma vérité observation that allows us to draw our own conclusions, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing shine a light on one of America’s most intractable conflicts. See film website here.
Jackson
Jackson is an intimate, unprecedented look at the lives of three women caught up in the complex issues surrounding abortion access. Set against the backdrop of the fight to close the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson captures the essential and hard truth of the lives at the center of the debate over reproductive healthcare in America. See film webiste here.