Dear John,

Welcome to the November edition of the #BadFaithMedicine Breakdown! Each month, we chronicle our recent activities to call out anti-abortion fake clinics and their efforts to push #BadFaithMedicine.

Latest Updates:

Anti-abortion fake clinic of the month? You guessed it! Human Coalition:

We’ve covered them before, but it bears more attention. As you might have heard, Human Coalition has roughly nine million dollars earmarked for them in the North Carolina state budget, which was signed into law last week. [1] That’s right, Human Coalition is getting millions to supposedly fund the statewide expansion of their “Continuum of Care” program which they claim is intended to “support childbirth as an alternative to abortion.” [2]

To be abundantly clear, childbirth is NOT an alternative to abortion.

In fact, we know that having an abortion is safer than childbirth. [3, 4] North Carolina’s maternal mortality rate ranks thirty out of the fifty states, the infant mortality rate is 6.8 deaths per 1000, and both are more likely to affect birthing people and infants of color, particularly Black and Indigenous folks. [5, 6]

And rather than investing in the communities suffering because of their own inability to see beyond their pockets, bias, and power, politicians KNOWINGLY invested millions into a program that could put even more birthing people in North Carolina at risk. In fact, according to the News & Observer, "If the $9 million in the 2021-2022 House budget currently proposed for [anti-abortion fake clinics] were instead given to Family Planning Medicaid services, that money would provide actual health services to 75,000 women of reproductive age in North Carolina." [7] That’s damning.

It is clear the priorities of the North Carolina state leaders are not to the people who they claim to serve. We deserve more and we deserve better.

Don’t forget to checkout our fake clinic database to make sure you stay away from #BadFaithMedicine.

In Solidarity,

Tenaja Henson
Campaign Coordinator
Based in Greensboro, NC

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Sources:

1. https://governor.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2021/11/18/governor-cooper-signs-budget-and-two-bills-law
2. https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/09/21/constant-chipping-away-at-our-reproductive-rights-advocates-slam-funding-for-crisis-pregnancy-centers-in-house-budget/
3. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-abortion/abortion-safer-than-giving-birth-study-idUSTRE80M2BS20120123
4.https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/2012/02000/The_Comparative_Safety_of_Legal_Induced_Abortion.3.aspx
5. https://ncpolicywatch.com/2020/01/29/its-not-fine-black-mothers-and-babies-are-dying-in-north-carolina/#:~:text=North%20Carolina%20ranks%20No.%2030%20among%20the%2050,of%2029.6%20maternal%20deaths%20per%20100%2C000%20live%20births
6. https://ncchild.org/2021-infant-mortality/#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20North%20Carolina%E2%80%99s%20overall%20infant%20mortality%20rate,racial%20gap%20in%20infant%20survival%20continues%20to%20persist.
7. https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article253854813.html#storylink=cpy