Since the fall of Roe, anti-abortion pregnancy centers are supposed to be the grand solution to the actual pregnancy crisis unfolding across the country, and state politicians have handed out nearly $500 million in public funds to these groups.
It’s especially notable that Ms. Hawkins’s own national spokesperson and senior ambassador Autumn Higashi said on video, “If a woman kills a child outside the womb, then I think that she should be prosecuted for that. So, if a woman kills a child inside the womb, then I don’t think that there’s any difference.”
Anti-abortion fake clinics—sometimes known as crisis pregnancy centers, pregnancy resource centers, and other misleading labels—exist to deceive people seeking abortion care and shame them for their choices.
President Biden got this much right: Recovery requires going big on infrastructure. But where are reproductive rights? That’s critical infrastructure, too.
While many states have their own funding programs and there are federal dollars available as well, the nature of those programs is heavily dependent on who is in charge at the executive level.