Documentary | Maisie Crow and Alissa Quart | Jan 2013
In this short film, award-winning filmmaker and photographer Maisie Crow and writer Alissa Quart document the effects of the abortion restrictions in Mississippi that threaten their last standing abortion clinic. This documentary portrays the lives of clinic doctors, protestors, as well as patients coming to the clinic for services. You can rent this movie for $3.99.
theguardian.com | By Leah Green, Tom Silverstone, and Richard Sprenger | Jul 17, 2017
In this segment, The Guardian video producer Leah Green travels to El Paso and Austin to expose the restrictions to abortion access in Texas, interview those that have worked to reduce abortion access, and better understand the experiences of Texans who need access to abortion care.
guttmacher.org | January 2020
The Guttmacher Institute regularly updates this web-page which outlines existing TRAP laws and the states in which they are currently active.
guttmacher.org | February 2018
This Guttmacher Institute web-page is a toolkit for advocates, service providers, and policymakers to access data and information regarding the content of TRAP laws and their impacts on pregnant people. As described by the Guttmacher Institute, “[this toolkit] includes information on state laws and policies, a synthesis of the relevant research, information on states in which the issue has been debated in the past three years and links to state-specific data.”
reproductiverights.org | Aug 25, 2015
In this article, the Center for Reproductive Rights describes what TRAP laws are and some of their impacts on abortion care. Of note, this article was written in 2015, before Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, a major Supreme Court case regarding TRAP laws.
guttmacher.org | By Joanne Rosen | Sep 2012
CPCs deliberately spread false information about the risks and relative safety of abortion care as well as contraception. This misinformation holds serious public health implications, outlined here by the Guttmacher Institute.
AMA Journal of Ethics | By Amy Bryant and Jonas Swartz
In this paper, Bryant and Schwarz construct an ethical argument against CPCs, particularly on the basis of nonmaleficence, which is the idea that health care providers “do not harm.” Through this analysis, they suggest that there are ways in which CPCs can operate in a more ethical manner and provide suggestions for current providers to help patients be aware of the existence and dangers of CPCs.
nytimes.com | By Kenneth Vogel and Robert Pear | Mar 29, 2019
While many CPCs receive financial support through donations, they are increasingly accessing federal funds to support their organizations. Under the Trump administration, CPCs are now receiving Title X funds. Title X is a grant to support family planning services such as contraceptive care, STI testing, and well-woman care (not including abortion). Under the Trump administration, funds from this grant are allocated to CPCs where people do not have access to safe, effective contraception or accurate information regarding contraception and STI prevention.
huffpost.com | By Caitlin Bancroft | Aug 15, 2013
A NARAL Pro-Choice legal intern, Caitlin Bancroft, went undercover in a CPC to better understand what counseling sessions look like in these clinics. She details her experience of being shamed, given false medical information, and coerced into keeping her pregnancy (which in reality did not exist).
Documentary | Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady | 2010
This documentary, from filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, depicts a corner in Fort Pierce, Florida with a CPC located on one side of the street and an abortion clinic on the other. While the abortion clinic provides abortion care and other reproductive health services, the CPC exclusively functions to convince people considering abortion to continue their pregnancies. This film reveals the inner workings of both offices, documenting anti-choice counselors at the CPC giving pregnant people misinformation and pro-choice counselors at the abortion clinic providing options counseling to patients.
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