Hi Revealer,

This year, we navigated financial challenges, but with your support, we forged ahead to produce investigations about the most pressing issues of our time. 

As a reporter covering reproductive health, I focused on crisis pregnancy centers. These organizations discourage women from obtaining abortion care. Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, conservative states – including Florida, where I’m based – have increased public funding for these pregnancy centers, claiming that they can fill gaps in maternal care caused by restrictive abortion policies. They are proliferating in liberal states, too, as abortion opponents double down on trying to stop women from ending unwanted pregnancies.

I discovered that most crisis pregnancy centers aren’t subject to the same kind of oversight as medical clinics, even though they perform procedures that can dramatically affect the lives of pregnant people. Medical experts told me that unlicensed and unregulated centers can wreak havoc on public health. At one Kentucky facility I investigated, a nurse found serious infection control issues, but state agencies weren’t empowered to do anything about it. 

In direct response to my investigation, a state lawmaker introduced a bill to regulate crisis pregnancy centers in Kentucky. Reproductive justice advocates in a dozen other states have also sought to increase oversight of pregnancy centers through mechanisms discussed in my reporting, including medical licensing requirements and consumer protection laws.