A nationwide survey found that South Carolina women view the rapid expansion of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) as a barrier to reproductive health care, with CPCs often misleadingly marketing themselves as health providers while steering women away from abortion and certain contraception methods. Since the 2022 Dobbs decision and South Carolina's Fetal Heartbeat Act banning abortions after six weeks, CPCs have proliferated in the state, receiving $3 million in state funding despite concerns about their non-medical status and the state's shortage of OB-GYN providers amid restrictive abortion policies.
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