'Crisis pregnancy centers' are funded by taxpayer dollars in 16 states, including six in the South.
In Louisiana, the state legislature has shifted $1.3 million from the TANF program to the state’s Alternatives to Abortion program since 2016, according to apublished earlier this year by Lift Louisiana, a reproductive rights advocacy group. The report found that the state anti-abortion program distributed $7.5 million to Caring to Love Ministries between 2011 and 2020 and $3.8 million to the Family Values Resource Institute between 2013 and 2020.
“We’re concerned they’re going to funnel even more funding into these pregnancy resource centers without actually requiring them to provide any real medical services that people may need,” said Lift Louisiana co-founder Michelle Erenberg. TANF funds are not the only ones being diverted to CPCs. In Florida, for example, $1.
State-funded CPCs are now getting some attention from federal lawmakers. Last month, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts along with five other Senate Democrats and independent Bernie Sanders sent ato Heartbeat International requesting information on how its CPCs are collecting, protecting, and using data over concerns that it could be deployed in abortion-related prosecutions.
“After luring pregnant people — many in desperate situations — to affiliate CPC facilities by using a variety of false and misleading tactics, Heartbeat International then collects a significant amount of their personal health care information, which in many cases does not appear to be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ,” the letter stated.
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