The New Front Line of the Anti-Abortion Movement

November 12, 2019

(The New Yorker) – These days, as few as four per cent of the women who visit C.P.C.s are pregnant and undecided about whether to have an abortion. Most come for social services, including the pregnancy verification required to sign up for maternal and infant Medicaid. In the past decade, C.P.C.s, which are at the forefront of the grassroots anti-abortion movement, have identified a new sense of mission and authority as rural health-care providers have struggled with a lack of funding. (In the U.S., more than a hundred rural hospitals have closed in the past decade.)