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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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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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