Anti-Abortion Centers and Their Fake Economic Solutions

Having the freedom to decide if and when we have kids is fundamental to building the lives we want for ourselves. But in the face of a housing affordability crisis, underfunded child care infrastructure, and a widening gender wage gap, this fundamental freedom feels further and further out of reach. Instead of addressing these economic issues, anti-abortion lawmakers are trying to divest from proven social services and invest in anti-abortion programs that are not only ineffective, but detrimental to communities.

More Than One Billion Dollars of Public Funding Has Gone to Anti-Abortion Centers

Since 2020, Equity Forward has conducted investigative research on anti-abortion centers (AACs) and how states have financially supported and legitimized them through Alternatives to Abortion (A2A) programs. Our new research  provides, for the first time, a full funding portrait of public dollars invested into A2A programs and individual AACs at the state level since the practice began.

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The Systemic Targeting of Marginalized Groups by Anti-Abortion Centers

Targeting marginalized communities is an issue across various businesses, including finance, food and beverage, and retail. Anti-abortion centers (AACs) also fall in the predatory business category. AACs’ strategic targeting of marginalized communities exploits disparities and systemic inequalities in reproductive health care to their advantage.

Real Waste: What's Really Happening with Indiana's Alternatives to Abortion Program?

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Introduction

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.

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Anti-Abortion Centers And Our Data: A History Of Unregulated Exploitation

Introduction

Surveillance of pregnant people and criminalization of abortion is nothing new in the United States’ long history of trying to control bodily autonomy. Historian Leslie J. Reagan details the timeline of anti-abortion laws in the U.S. beginning in the nineteenth century, followed by law enforcement tactics of interrogating those who had abortions, clinic raids, and prosecution of people who had abortions.

Reproductive Health: A Social Justice Issue

The United Nations (UN) defines human rights as, “rights we have simply because we exist as human beings - they are not granted by the state.” These range from the right to food and education, to health and liberty. The United Nations also affirms that access to culturally competent reproductive health care is a human right. As such, the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.

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