USA – We Need to Talk About ICE and Anti-Abortion Centers

These groups prey on immigrant women and collect their data. It's not hard to imagine what happens next.

Kylie Cheung
Jul 24, 2025

We all know anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers don’t offer real health care. They set up shop near actual clinics to lure in potential abortion seekers, collect their data, and inundate them with disinformation designed to dissuade them from seeking abortion. But under the Trump administration, these over-funded fake clinics are situated to play another potential role: enforcing Republicans’ racist immigration policies by targeting vulnerable, pregnant immigrant women.

And because CPCs aren’t real health providers, many aren’t bound to the same medical privacy laws. That means they can share people’s personal information with the government—and many do, as a condition of receiving state funding. CPCs have become the enforcement arm of not just the anti-abortion movement, but also, increasingly, the government itself.

Continued: https://jessica.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-ice-and-anti


Crisis pregnancy center’s forms give rare insight into anti-abortion practices

The free organizations offer counseling while trying to dissuade women from having abortions. They promise to protect health data but aren’t bound by federal privacy law.

Oct. 13, 2024
by Abigail Brooks

A free family planning center in Twin Falls, Idaho, asks its visitors for sensitive, private information, including nonmedical questions about religion and financial status, according to documents obtained by NBC News.

While the Sage Women’s Center promises to protect the information of its clients, it isn’t bound by medical privacy laws and may be misleading women who are coping with unplanned pregnancies, consumer advocates say.

Continued: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/crisis-pregnancy-centers-forms-privacy-abortion-rcna172566


From Emergency Room to Prison: Health Care Providers Are Most Likely To Report Pregnant People

What new research into the criminalization of self-managed abortions hints about a post-Dobbs world.

KATIE HERCHENROEDER, JULIANNE MCSHANE, Mother Jones
Nov 20, 2023

In 2013, an Indiana woman showed up at an emergency room suffering from severe vaginal hemorrhaging. At first, Purvi Patel denied she had been pregnant. But, eventually, Patel told doctors she had a stillbirth. The hospital staff did not believe her. So, her doctor—a member of the anti-abortion American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists—called the cops.  

As a new report shows, Patel isn’t alone: Even before the fall of Roe, women were reported by doctors to law enforcement for conducting self-managed abortions, or SMAs. While only one state, Nevada, outright criminalizes SMAs, health care workers still reported pregnant people to law enforcement all across the country. And in a post-Dobbs world, experts worry this criminalization could get worse. 

Continued: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/abortion-criminalization-healthcare-providers/