There are over 50+ anti-choice clinics in wisconsin

WHILE ONLY 5 ABORTION CLINICS ARE OPEN FOR PATIENTS SEEKING CARE

Clinics run by groups working to ban all abortions are a hazard to our community.

Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) also known as anti-abortion clinics, or fake clinics, are facilities designed to dissuade individuals from seeking abortions, contraception, and having premarital sex.(1) While often presenting themselves as medical clinics, they are largely unregulated, typically lack licensed clinical staff, and do not adhere to medical ethics. Their core services are limited to free pregnancy tests and information aimed at steering decisions away from abortion, with some also offering limited ultrasounds or STI testing.

These centers frequently engage in deceptive practices, providing inaccurate medical information. CPCs disproportionately target young people, low-income communities, and people of color, posing significant public health risks by delaying access to comprehensive, evidence-based care.

Their business model is based on deception.

LIES AND DECEPTION SPREAD BY anti-abortion CLINICS

These are some examples of lies told by CPCs

FALSE: “Abortion increases your risk of breast cancer by 50%”

FACT: Recent studies show no causal link between induced abortion and an increase in cancer risk.(4)

FALSE: “Birth control and the morning after pill are abortion pills.”

FACT: Both emergency and other forms of birth control prevent the release of an egg from the ovary so fertilization doesn’t occur, avoiding pregnancy. (9)

false: “MEDICATION ABORTION CAN BE REVERSED”

FACT: The “abortion reversal” regimen CPCs offer has not been approved by medical and ethics boards. Because of safety concerns for study participants at UC Davis, research of this regimen has been halted. (5)

How many anti-abortion clinics are there?

As of 2024, according to crisispregnacyentermap.com, there are 54 fake clinics in operation in Wisconsin. For legitimate clinics and health providers offering abortion care, there are only 5 locations as of October 1, 2025.

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN MILWAUKEE?

Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) disproportionately harm Black and Latina communities through deliberate and systematic targeting strategies that exploit structural vulnerabilities. As documented in a Reproductive Freedom for All’s (formerly NARAL) Pro-Choice America report, Care Net’s “Urban Initiative,” an “underserved outreach” program active since 2003, is explicitly designed to target African-American and Latina women by placing advertisements in bus shelters and on Black Entertainment Television (BET), even invoking offensive comparisons between abortion and slavery to manipulate and shame women by leveraging historical trauma.(3)

CPCs further concentrate their facilities in low-income urban neighborhoods and near colleges and comprehensive health clinics, ensuring they are more physically accessible to women of color than legitimate reproductive health providers. This predatory outreach is compounded by the widespread dissemination of medically inaccurate information, including false claims about abortion risks, mental health, breast cancer, and infertility, which undermines informed decision-making and reproductive autonomy.

*The City of Milwaukee has 6 total Crisis Pregnancy Centers, more than half are in majority Black and Latino neighborhoods*

How are CPCs funded?

In Wisconsin, Crisis Pregnancy Centers receive public funding from the sale of Choose Life Wisconsin license plates (2) and state funding with taxpayer dollars (8), although those estimates are thought to be higher since public funding for CPCs is hard to trace in the state.

They also receive funding from national anti-choice organizations such as CareNet, Heartbeat International, and Abortion Pill Rescue Network. These orgs are not only anti-abortion, they are anti-contraception as well, aiming to limit women’s control of their own bodies.(7)

Other forms of funding are from private donors, who usually don’t have any local connection to the clinic, and are based out-of-state. Since fake clinics operate as non-profit entities, donations are tax deductible. Just in 2024, Alliance Family Services, a CPC based in Kenosha, WI, generated a total revenue of $1.2 million. (6)

CPCS IN THE NEWS

direct action

Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee (RJAM)’s campaign called “CPCs Out of MKE” is combatting these attacks on our community. Our goal is to bring attention and educate community members on CPCs and the harm they cause to reproductive health. For more information, join RJAM.

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