Gender Justice releases report on crisis pregnancy centers

Gender Justice, along with its partners at The Alliance: State Advocates for Women’s Rights & Gender Equality, released a study on CPCs and later followed up with an urgent warning about the role the crisis pregnancy center (CPC) industry is poised to play in a post-Roe United States—as a surveillance tool for the anti-abortion movement. The report exposed how CPCs, which are generally not medical facilities and therefore do not need to comply with medical privacy laws, are collecting sensitive medical and personal information from pregnant people and quietly funneling it to anti-abortion organizations.

As a result of Gender Justice’s report, in August of 2022, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison issued a consumer advisory warning highlighting these practices and advising pregnant people to do their own research before seeking out CPCs.