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More Than One Billion Dollars of Public Funding Has Gone to Anti-Abortion Centers
Download PDF HereEquity Forward examined records from 23 states that have allocated public dollars to AACs from 1995, the first verifiable instance of funding, through July 23, 2024, identifying the funding increase by states since the Dobbs decision in 2022 and quantifying the total amount in state general fund and federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) dollars that have gone to A2A programs to date.
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration: A Pseudoscientific, Paternalistic Bid To Ban Medication Abortion Care
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al.’s efforts to hinder access to medication abortion are rooted in an anti-human rights political agenda, not science.
Biden Administration Timeline: Strengthen Access to Family Planning Services Across the United States
Equity Forward has created an interactive policy timeline to track the Biden administration’s progress in protecting the federal Title X family planning program and reversing the domestic gag rule imposed by the Trump administration.
Even More Reasons Why Anti-Abortion Centers Are a Threat to Our Communities: AAC and Allied Organizations’ Activity Since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
Anti-abortion centers are falsely positioning themselves as the solution to the public health crisis they advocated for and facilitated. Here are recent ways that AACs and allied organizations have endangered reproductive health and autonomy.
Biden Administration Timeline: Advancing Equity-Driven and Inclusive Health and Human Rights Policies
Equity Forward has created an interactive policy timeline to track the Biden administration’s progress in enhancing data collection across various demographic groups, using gender inclusive language, and restoring research on reproductive health care access in federal policies and reports.
Biden Administration Timeline: Restore U.S. Foreign Policy Around Human Rights Including Protections for SRHR and LGBTQIA+ Communities
Equity Forward has created an interactive policy timeline to track the Biden administration’s progress in restoring U.S. foreign policy around human rights including protections for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and LGBTQIA+ communities.
Biden Administration Timeline: Protect Immigrants’ Human Rights and Reproductive Freedom
Equity Forward has created an interactive policy timeline to track the Biden administration’s progress in protecting the human rights, reproductive freedom, and bodily autonomy of immigrants, and investigating past abuses.
Biden Administration Timeline: Civil Rights Offices Protecting Civil Rights for All
Equity Forward has created an interactive policy timeline to track the Biden administration’s progress in ensuring that federal civil rights offices protect civil rights for all, including LGBTQIA+ communities.
Alternatives to Abortion (A2A) State Program Funding
Download PDF HereAnti-abortion actors in the United States and across the world have sought for decades to prevent access to abortion. As part of this scheme, they have propped up anti-abortion centers (AACs)— that serve as anti-abortion propaganda machines and provide little in the way of healthcare or...
Biden Administration Timeline: Science and Evidence Guiding Policy and Funding
Equity Forward has created an interactive policy timeline to track the Biden administration’s progress in promoting science and evidence over political ideology in public health policy and federal research funding.
Seven Reasons Why Anti-Abortion Centers Are a Problem, Not a Solution
In SCOTUS briefs, anti-abortion organizations falsely claim that these centers negate the need for abortion.
2021: Wave Of Harmful State-Level Legislation Targeting Transgender Students
This year concerningly marks the highest number of anti-transgender bills in history, many of which are the result of coordinated efforts led by national anti-LGBTQIA+ hate groups, including Alliance Defending Freedom and Family Watch International.
The Biden Administration’s 100 Days Progress Report
Equity Forward has tracked the new administration’s appointments and policies. What progress has been made, and what are we still waiting for?
Tracking the Biden-Harris Administration’s Policy Changes: A Timeline of the First 100 Days
Equity Forward is chronicling a timeline of the Biden-Harris administration’s progress in addressing our transition recommendations, as well as policy advancements related to reproductive health, rights and justice, LGBTQ rights, and other human rights.
Equity Forward's Tracking of the Biden-Harris Administration Transition
Equity Forward’s research team tracks the names of nominees and appointees to key cabinet and leadership positions which have purview over our main issue areas regarding abortion, reproductive health and justice, and policies singularly impacting LGBTQ communities.
Research Relying on Fetal Tissue: A Timeline of Ideological, Anti-Science HHS Politics
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Over the course of the Trump Administration, lifesaving research has been attacked time and time again.
How January 2021's Terrorism at the U.S. Capitol is Inextricably Linked to the Anti-Abortion Movement
Ashley Underwood, Research Associate and Rachel Wormer, Research Intern - January 29, 2021 Fact Sheets
Ideological-driven hate that manifested in a violent mob at the U.S. Capitol may have been unprecedented—but it was not unfathomable in the slightest to anyone who works within the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements.
The Affordable Care Act: Why It Matters for Your Reproductive Health Care
The Trump Administration has detrimentally weakened the ACA.
Equity Forward’s Transition Recommendations for a New Administration
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This fact sheet lays out Equity Forward’s recommendations for a new administration in 2021.
Two-Thirds of the Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board Members Elevate Ideology Over Science
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Ten members have anti-abortion views and connections that have influenced their scientific research and policy decisions.
The Majority of the Commission on Unalienable Rights Members Have Egregious Track Records on Reproductive Rights
The Commission largely comprises right-wing, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ hardliners who were all appointed by Pompeo. This fact sheet focuses on the commissioners Equity Forward found to have problematic human records with particular attention to reproductive rights.
Title X Under Siege: Nation’s Family Planning Program Politicized and Sabotaged By Trump Administration
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Since Trump took office, Title X — the nation’s family planning program for low-income individuals — has been in constant peril.
The Heritage Foundation and Family Research Council: Mirror Images of Hate
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The Heritage Foundation is fond of branding itself as a think tank of establishment conservatives. In reality, Heritage regularly spouts hateful ideas that are detrimental to LGBTQ individuals, women, people of color and low-income workers.
Trump’s HHS Office for Civil Rights: Ideological Agenda, Nationwide Impact
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Under the Trump administration, OCR has pursued policies and taken actions to further a radical, ideological agenda at the expense of its underlying mission.
Title X Comparison: The Nation’s Family Planning Program Has Been Drastically Altered By The Trump Administration From The Obama Administration
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The Trump administration scrapped what was formerly anon-political processunder the Obama administration with their 2018 and 2019 grant announcements for the...
Scientific Research Relying on Fetal Tissue: The Facts
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This research has profound potential to advance clinical knowledge and treatment options for life-threatening and chronic diseases.
Scientific Research Relying on Fetal Tissue: Legislative and Legal History
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Fetal tissue donation and use in research has been strictly regulated for decades to ensure that the highest ethical standards are upheld.