Episode description

Alison, Liz, and Rebecca are joined by Jenifer McKenna to talk about the billion dollar crisis pregnancy center industry and its role in the anti-abortion movement. They discuss the massive harms caused by these unregulated fake clinics, Jenifer’s work on the first multi-state CPC investigation, and a new approach to exposing their unethical tactics and fighting back.

Show Notes

• Reproductive Health & Freedom Watch

• “Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in Nine States”

• Reproductive Health & Freedom Watch: Recent CPC research and analysis

• “Why is the billion-dollar unregulated pregnancy clinic industry receiving increasing taxpayer dollars?”

• “Unregulated Pregnancy Clinic Industry’s Revenue Soars to $1.7 Billion Annually”

• “Anti-Choice Leaders Are Mobilizing Thousands of Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics Against Abortion Access Ballot Initiatives”

• Jenifer McKenna’s Ms Magazine articles

• “Anti-Abortion Extremists Are Diverting Tax Dollars to Crisis Pregnancy Centers”

• “Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics Collect Health Information From Pregnant People—With No Privacy Protection”

• “Documentary ‘Preconceived’ Exposes Horrors of Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry: ‘I Came to You for Help. Why Did You Lie?’”

• Women’s Law Project

• Gender Justice

• Rewire investigation on LIFElink Carolina 

• ”Preconceived” Documentary 

Cases

• NIFLA v. Becerra (2018)

• Jane Doe v. Clearway Clinic (2023)

• Four Women Health Services v. Abundant Hope Pregnancy Resource Center (2024)

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