More Taxpayer Dollars go to Anti-Abortion Clinics in North Carolina 
This week, the Charlotte News Observer reported that North Carolina’s newly-passed budget contains nearly $26 million for religious organizations, most of which are crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). Abortion is already banned after 12 weeks in North Carolina, which the Guttmacher Institute describes as having “very restrictive” reproductive healthcare policies; patients are forced to make multiple trips to receive care, and clinics are subject to burdensome regulations that require them to seek unnecessary surgical licenses. CPCs, on the other hand, are poorly-regulated; the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists describes them as facilities that “undermine the tenets of informed consent” and “impede access to comprehensive, ethical care.”
 
One North Carolina organization that received state funding, known as the Human Coalition, has previously been accused of misleading women about their ultrasound results and of their eligibility for abortion services. In 2019, CfA urged North Carolina officials to end funding to the Human Coalition, which appeared to be using taxpayer dollars to support its religious activities. Despite these serious allegations, lawmakers have now granted the organization an additional $3 million in taxpayer dollars.