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Equity Forward conducts extensive research and investigative work to ensure the transparency and accountability of groups and individuals who are attacking human rights, including reproductive freedom, gender equity, access to quality healthcare racial justice, and equal protections for LGBTQIA+ communities. We conduct robust public records research, qualitative interviews, opposition research, legislative tracking, and policy analysis. In addition to our research-driven campaigns, we provide fact sheets, reports and public records analyses. We break down complicated findings and make our information easily accessible and user-friendly for the communities we work with.

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Fact Sheets

More Than One Billion Dollars of Public Funding Has Gone to Anti-Abortion Centers

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July 31, 2024 Fact Sheets

Equity 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.   

Abortion, Anti-Abortion Centers

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Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration: A Pseudoscientific, Paternalistic Bid To Ban Medication Abortion Care

Julia Bourkland, Research Assistant - February 23, 2023 Fact Sheets

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.

Abortion, Abortion Bans, Anti-Abortion Lobby, Courts, Human Rights, Reproductive Justice

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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

Julia Bourkland, Research Assistant - December 13, 2022 Fact Sheets

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.

Abortion, Abortion Bans, Anti-Abortion Centers, Anti-Abortion Lobby

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Biden Administration Timeline: Protect Immigrants’ Human Rights and Reproductive Freedom

EF Staff - November 16, 2022 Fact Sheets

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.

Abortion, Biden Administration, HHS, Human Rights, Reproductive Justice, State Department

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Seven Reasons Why Anti-Abortion Centers Are a Problem, Not a Solution

Ashley Underwood, Senior Researcher - November 24, 2021 Fact Sheets

In SCOTUS briefs, anti-abortion organizations falsely claim that these centers negate the need for abortion.

Abortion, Abortion Bans, Anti-Abortion Centers, Anti-Abortion Lobby

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The Majority of the Commission on Unalienable Rights Members Have Egregious Track Records on Reproductive Rights

EF Staff - July 16, 2020 Fact Sheets

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.

Abortion, Commission on Unalienable Rights, Human Rights, State Department, Trump Administration

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