Equity Forward conducts extensive research and investigative work to ensure the transparency and accountability of groups and individuals who are attacking human rights, including reproductive freedom, gender equity, access to quality healthcare racial justice, and equal protections for LGBTQIA+ communities. We conduct robust public records research, qualitative interviews, opposition research, legislative tracking, and policy analysis. In addition to our research-driven campaigns, we provide fact sheets, reports and public records analyses. We break down complicated findings and make our information easily accessible and user-friendly for the communities we work with.
As Equity Forward has reported, a number of states in the United States operate Alternatives to Abortion (A2A) programs, which funnel state and federal funds to anti-abortion centers (AACs), whose purpose is to shame and deceive pregnant people and parents and convince them not to seek abortion care. Indiana is one of more than a dozen states with an A2A program.
After multiple failed attempts to pass state funding for anti-abortion centers (AACs) (also known as crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs), Arizona state legislators tucked a line-item appropriation of $1.5 million for a "family health pilot program" for the fiscal year 2021–2022 into one of the state’s annual budget bills, which was recently signed into law on June 30, 2021, by Governor Doug Ducey.
Following an onslaught of anti-abortion legislation and rhetoric in states across the United States in 2019, Equity Forward filed records requests in Arizona, Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Utah.
After receiving and reviewing more than 13,000 pages of records from several of these states, Equity Forward identified key findings from Ohio, Missouri, Arizona, Florida and Georgia. Below is a research report highlighting these findings, as well as the public records as received.