Program areas at Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America Education Fund
In 2022, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life Education Fund launched a national program to educate Americans about the highly anticipated Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court case. The program included television advertising, digital advertising, and text messaging advertising that featured educational information surrounding the case and featured topics such as adoption, fetal pain, modern medicine, and fetal development. Further, the program included a national prayer campaign and promoted the efforts of religious leaders to educate their congregations about the case.
Her PLAN is a project to support and grow the pro-life safety net by facilitating collaboration between assistance providers and their communities to empower women and families through comprehensive medical, social, and material support. In 2020, Her PLAN was launched with pilot programs in Georgia and northern Virginia. The PLAN team designed and began populating a directory of assistance providers across seven categories of care. These categories are: mentorship; health and well-being; financial assistance, work or education; material or legal support; recovery and mental health; prenatal diagnosis; and care for children. In 2021, Her PLAN also developed a unique online platform to host a directory of providers ready to serve women and families. Her PLAN staff began detailed research into ways communities can support pregnant women and their families. This research is the basis for the release of a church curriculum to facilitate greater collaboration and support between churches and assistance providers.
Education and Research - CLI continued its core activities as the preeminent organization for science-based life issue information and research. In 2022, CLI engaged heavily in education on fetal development through the ground-breaking and painstakingly documented Voyage of Life sequence. CLI produced as well the "Handbook of Nascent Human Beings: A Visual Aid for Understanding the Science and Experimentation" on human embryos. CLI continued its production of white papers, studies and fact sheets on fetal pain, legal deficiencies of Roe, chemical abortion, and the mental and physical sequelae of abortion. CLI also continued publication of its peer-reviewed studies based on Medicaid claims data and survey research. In 2022, the Supreme Court decided the Dobbs late-term abortion case. Sixteen unique CLI studies were cited in 17 briefs to the Supreme Court by various amici. After the Court's ruling in June 2022, CLI provided expert commentary and information in media and policy forums across the nation, contributing to the restoration of protective laws in place before the 1973 Supreme Court rulings in Roe and Doe. Last year, CLI continued to equip and inform decision-makers and citizens. CLI published a record 92 papers, including 45 state abortion-reporting articles. Leveraging millions of data points from Medicaid claims data, Charlotte Lozier Institute scholars identified a dramatic spike in abortion pill-related emergency room visits. CLI scholars also appeared in the media more than 1,100 times. Finally, CLI formed a new "Sci-Med" Team, whose goal is to educate Americans about women's health, the humanity of the unborn, the harms of abortion, and ethical advancements in science and medicine. CLI continues to maintain multiple web sites that address critical life issues, including abortiondrugfacts.org and stemcellresearchfacts.org (now stem cell connect).