How a Texas Program Funnels Millions to Anti-Abortion Groups With Little Accountability
www.propublica.org
Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas leads the nation in funding for crisis pregnancy centers. The system is meant to help growing families, but it’s riddled with waste and lacks oversight, a ProPublica and CBS News investigation found.
  • Flying Squid
    17•27 days ago

    “No one knows if it works.”

    Yes they do. CPCs deliberately lie to people, especially teens, about abortion and have for years in order to scare them out of getting one. It works as intended, unfortunately.

    The Planned Parenthood in this town shut down not long before Dobbs started being deliberated. They didn’t have enough funding to keep the place open. Meanwhile, the local CPC has a big downtown office with a huge custom RV/Bus thing that does who knows what and they’re allowed to do “sex education” in the public schools.

  • SeaJ
    10•27 days ago

    Maternal and infant mortality are up significantly in Texas after they essentially banned abortion.