Red States Have Spent $500M On Fake Abortion Clinics

CBS News reports:

States that ban or restrict abortion have flooded anti-abortion counseling centers with nearly $500 million in taxpayer funding since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, according to a new report. Equity Forward, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on issues including reproductive rights, analyzed budgets from 23 states that dedicate public funding to what are known as crisis pregnancy centers.

When Florida passed its six-week abortion ban last year, it allocated $25 million to crisis pregnancy centers. Tennessee dedicated $20 million to the effort last year, up from just $283,000 in the year prior. No state has spent more in taxpayer funding than Texas, which accounts for almost half of the total spending. The state agency that oversees the program acknowledged it doesn’t monitor how tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent.

Read the full article. For those unaware, “crisis pregnancy centers” lure women in with deceptive marketing hinting that they provide abortions.

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