> In 2022, Desiree’s ultrasound was one of 833 performed at one of Gateway Women’s Care’s three Triangle locations, and one of at least 6,000 performed at North Carolina crisis pregnancy centers, according to an annual report submitted to the state health department. These explicitly anti-abortion, Christian centers often offer “pre-abortion services” like pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and counseling for unplanned pregnancies, but they don’t offer prenatal care during the course of a pregnancy.
> “Crisis pregnancy centers offer a variety of services,” said Dr. Jonas Swartz, a Duke professor and OBGYN who has studied the centers. “They sometimes offer maternity clothes for people who have just given birth or who are going to give birth. And they sometimes offer resources for infants. But **their express goal is to intercept people who are going to seek abortion and talk them out of having an abortion**.”
> And over the last decade, taxpayer money to support these centers’ work increased from $300,000 a year to more than $12 million.
> There are at least 100 crisis pregnancy centers operating in North Carolina, most of which have received state funding through the Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, a little-known statewide nonprofit that also goes by the name “Lifelink Carolina.” But an investigation by *The Assembly* found that these unlicensed facilities are not subject to the same privacy regulations or governmental oversight as medical clinics, and in cases like Desiree’s, have shared inaccurate information. Less than a quarter of the state funds they received went to support pregnant people.
> **Despite ongoing concerns about oversight of these centers, the state legislature nearly doubled its taxpayer funding to crisis pregnancy centers in 2022, growing from $5.7 million to $9.7, and in the 2023 fiscal year, North Carolina gave these centers $12.4 million, the third-highest funding in the country**. Funding totaled $7.5 million in 2024, a decline likely due to the state legislature not passing a comprehensive budget in the “short session.”
A more accurate name for “crisis pregnancy centers” would be “abortion diversion centers.”
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> In 2022, Desiree’s ultrasound was one of 833 performed at one of Gateway Women’s Care’s three Triangle locations, and one of at least 6,000 performed at North Carolina crisis pregnancy centers, according to an annual report submitted to the state health department. These explicitly anti-abortion, Christian centers often offer “pre-abortion services” like pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and counseling for unplanned pregnancies, but they don’t offer prenatal care during the course of a pregnancy.
> “Crisis pregnancy centers offer a variety of services,” said Dr. Jonas Swartz, a Duke professor and OBGYN who has studied the centers. “They sometimes offer maternity clothes for people who have just given birth or who are going to give birth. And they sometimes offer resources for infants. But **their express goal is to intercept people who are going to seek abortion and talk them out of having an abortion**.”
> And over the last decade, taxpayer money to support these centers’ work increased from $300,000 a year to more than $12 million.
> There are at least 100 crisis pregnancy centers operating in North Carolina, most of which have received state funding through the Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, a little-known statewide nonprofit that also goes by the name “Lifelink Carolina.” But an investigation by *The Assembly* found that these unlicensed facilities are not subject to the same privacy regulations or governmental oversight as medical clinics, and in cases like Desiree’s, have shared inaccurate information. Less than a quarter of the state funds they received went to support pregnant people.
> **Despite ongoing concerns about oversight of these centers, the state legislature nearly doubled its taxpayer funding to crisis pregnancy centers in 2022, growing from $5.7 million to $9.7, and in the 2023 fiscal year, North Carolina gave these centers $12.4 million, the third-highest funding in the country**. Funding totaled $7.5 million in 2024, a decline likely due to the state legislature not passing a comprehensive budget in the “short session.”
A more accurate name for “crisis pregnancy centers” would be “abortion diversion centers.”
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Nice to see the right wing can get in to the nonprofit grift train too.