Regulate UPCs that pretend to be free medical clinics

Posted on October 14, 2025

There are dozens of nonprofit free medical clinics in every state, which provide quality health care to people who can’t afford it. There are also dozens of Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs), which are masquerading...

Transparency, Misogyny, Social Media and More

Posted on October 1, 2025

Financial Transparency Act: More than 2,600 unregulated pregnancy clinics (UPCs, also called crisis pregnancy centers) operate in all 50 states. The Financial Transparency Act requires that, in order to receive grants from the state,...

Require UPCs to disclose their spending

Posted on October 1, 2025

Nineteen states currently subsidize Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs, often called crisis pregnancy centers) and yet, they need no subsidies. They are already spending far more than they provide clients in goods and services. How...

Stop UPCs from disclosing sensitive client health information

Posted on September 17, 2025

When clients go to any healthcare facility, they expect their sensitive personal health information to be kept confidential. But Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (otherwise called Crisis Pregnancy Centers) often send personal health information to a...

Housing, Health Privacy, Corporate Power and More

Posted on September 17, 2025

Reproductive Health Client Data Privacy Act: Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs) are not covered by HIPAA, the federal health privacy law, and many share confidential health information outside of the clinic. The Reproductive Health Client...

Why focus on UPCs?

Posted on September 3, 2025

There is a vast network of Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs), commonly called “crisis pregnancy centers,” which falsely present themselves as full-service reproductive health clinics. While their main mission is to prevent abortion, they play...

Unregulated Clinics, Troop Deployments, Vaccine Protocols and More

Posted on September 3, 2025

Ultrasound Quality Assurance and Safety Act: Unfortunately, many ultrasound exams are being performed by unqualified and unsupervised personnel. The Ultrasound Quality Assurance and Safety Act requires that an ultrasound can only be performed or...

Democracy, Politics, a Police State and More

Posted on August 20, 2025

Resolution in Support of Democracy: Prior to U.S. Independence, cities and towns adopted resolutions of condemnation against the abuses and usurpations of King George III. The Resolution in Support of Democracy is directed instead...

Sleepwalking into a police state

Posted on August 20, 2025

First Los Angeles and now Washington, DC. Soon, Trump will declare that crime in your city is an “emergency” and send troops. Are we just going to sleepwalk into a police state? This is...

Climate, Health, Crime and More

Posted on July 23, 2025

Climate Change Impact Assessment Act: Recent weather disasters remind us that climate change will eventually affect every state and locality with more and worse hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, drought and wildfire. Some of these problems...

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