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Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state from investigating whether they misled women into believing the centers offered abortions. The case highlights an effort to crack down on so-called crisis pregnancy centers. Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports for our series, The Next Frontier. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving a group of faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey.

0:07.0

The organization is hoping to block the state's attorney general from investigating whether they misled women into believing the centers offered abortions.

0:15.1

The case highlights an effort to crack down on these so-called crisis pregnancy centers.

0:19.8

For our series, The Next Frontier,

0:21.6

Special Correspondent Sarah Barney reports, these organizations are a growing part of the anti-abortion

0:27.1

movement in a post-row America. And I was terrified. I mean, like no 18-year-old wants to find

0:34.1

themselves in that position. Four years ago, Hannah Miller, then a freshman at Randeis University outside of Boston, became pregnant.

0:42.3

After searching for abortion care on the internet, the Minnesota native called one of the first clinics to pop up.

0:49.3

They were really trying to beat around the bush, really trying to just get me there. What happens when you went inside?

0:56.0

It looked exactly like any doctor's office, down to a woman in scrubs.

1:01.0

Hello.

1:02.0

Hello.

1:03.0

But partway through the appointment, Hanna realized she had come to the wrong place.

1:08.0

Instead of an abortion clinic, Hanna was sitting in a crisis pregnancy center.

1:12.8

Known as CPCs, these mostly faith-based nonprofits, offer resources to pregnant women

1:18.5

to steer them away from abortion. But reproductive rights advocates in the medical community

1:23.4

have criticized CPCs for using deceptive and at times unsafe practices.

1:28.3

They told me that I was eight weeks pregnant at a time when I was six weeks pregnant.

1:33.3

Did anything she said change your mind?

1:36.3

No. It made me kind of more resolved in my decision.

1:40.3

But it changed fundamentally the way that I felt about it.

1:44.7

It felt like something I needed to be ashamed of.

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