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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

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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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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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.

Anti-Abortion Lobby

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The Heritage Foundation and Family Research Council: Mirror Images of Hate

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EF Staff - February 26, 2020 Fact Sheets

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.

Anti-Abortion Lobby

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