Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are an increasingly powerful weapon in the arsenal of the anti-abortion movement - and they are being heavily funded with federal abstinence-only money.

Though CPCs often imitate actual abortion clinics, they do not provide abortion services and the majority are not medical clinics at all. CPCs typically use deceptive advertising tactics to mask their true anti-abortion agenda and to bring women into their facilities. Using misinformation, shame and scare tactics, these clinics seek to dissuade women who face unintended pregnancies from choosing abortion.

In recent years, federal and state government funding for CPCs has expanded dramatically. The largest federal funding stream for these centers is abstinence-only money. This funding has brought inexperienced CPC employees and volunteers into schools to teach abstinence-only programs, replacing trained sexual health educators who had provided comprehensive sexual education. Worse yet, this funding has enabled numerous CPCs to produce and market their own abstinence-only curricula. Many of these curricula have been criticized for being gender-biased, fear-based, scientifically inaccurate, overtly religious and anti-abortion.

To learn more, read Legal Momentum's full report on CPCs receiving federal abstinence-only funding here.

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