Georgia funding anti-abortion centers posing as clinics puts pregnant people at risk

Organizers fight to defund anti-abortion centers that use false advertising and misinformation to trick pregnant people into using their clinics.

by Neesha Powell-Ingabire

This article was originally published at Prism

Reproductive justice organizers in Georgia are waging a battle on two fronts: Not only are they contending with the state’s six-week abortion ban, but they’re also fighting to defund anti-abortion centers, which are otherwise referred to as crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). These typically religiously affiliated nonprofits are known for offering non-evidence-based services such as “abortion pill reversal” to people seeking medical care.

The Atlanta-based Spark Reproductive Justice Now, a Black LGBTQIA+ and women-led organization, has been advocating to end the Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program, the state mechanism that funds anti-abortion centers, since its inception. Spark’s policy and advocacy director, Agbo Ikor, anticipates the state will provide even more resources and support to these fake clinics in the wake of the six-week abortion ban and the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.