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"content": "\u003cp>Black students’ standardized test scores and graduation rates have long trailed those of their white and Asian peers. For decades, educators and legislators have tried to close that achievement gap, and a school funding proposal in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new budget illustrates just how difficult it is to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea for the proposed funding began as a bill that would have provided more money for Black K–12 students. The bill, authored last year by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/akilah-weber-1978/\">Akilah Weber\u003c/a>, a Democrat from La Mesa, made it through both the Assembly and Senate with unanimous support. While Newsom never vetoed the bill, he ultimately refused to sign it. Weber agreed to drop the bill when the governor promised to include the funding in his proposed budget for the next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after Newsom released his budget earlier this month, some advocates who supported Weber’s bill say the governor’s proposal falls short. Driven by concerns the bill would violate state and federal laws banning preferential treatment of specific racial or ethnic groups, the governor’s office directed the funding to high-poverty schools rather than Black students specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates say the proposed school funding in the budget waters down the intent of the bill and will perpetuate the achievement gap for Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a CalMatters analysis, less than 26% of Black students in California attend a school that would qualify for the $300 million proposed in Newsom’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Fortune is president and CEO of the charter school organization Fortune School of Education and was one of the lead sponsors of the bill. She said the proposal does not reflect the intentions of Weber’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds good, but it doesn’t actually get to the students who need the help,” she said. “This is an apple, and what we wanted was an orange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill wasn’t just about race. Weber’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2774\">AB 2774\u003c/a> would have given additional funding to school districts and charter schools for the student group with the lowest standardized test scores statewide. In 2022, that group was Black students: Statewide, 30% of Black students met or exceeded standards in English language arts, and 16% met or exceeded standards in math in the 2021–22 school year. For white students, those percentages were 61% for English language arts and 48% for math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Test scores dropped slightly for all students during the pandemic, and the achievement gap persisted. In the spring of 2019, the last year of standardized testing before the pandemic shutdown, 33% of Black students met or exceeded English language arts standards, and 21% met or exceeded math standards. Among white students, 66% and 54%, respectively, met or exceeded standards.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tyrone Howard, UCLA education professor\"]‘I don’t think you can take 245 years of slavery and Jim Crow and a legacy of separate and unequal education and expect this gap to not exist.’[/pullquote]Supporters of Weber’s bill said it would have helped Black students — as the lowest-performing group on state standardized test scores — improve academically. At the same time, the legislation would have used test scores to ensure the funding was producing results: Once Black students’ scores were no longer the lowest, the next group with the lowest test scores would qualify for the additional funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If after one or two years those students were progressing, it could be any other student group that could be considered,” said Christina Laster, an educational adviser for Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and a co-sponsor of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts say that while elected officials and policymakers are quick to identify the racial achievement gaps, they lack the political will to target Black students with extra resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re really afraid to have hard conversations and subsequent legislation around race and how we achieve racial justice in education,” said Tyrone Howard, education professor at UCLA. “I don’t think you can take 245 years of slavery and Jim Crow and a legacy of separate and unequal education and expect this gap to not exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s bill isn’t a new idea. Her mother, former Assemblymember and current Secretary of State Shirley Weber, authored nearly identical bills in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2635\">2018\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB575\">2019\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2685\">2020\u003c/a>. None of them made it out of the state Assembly. In 2018, Newsom made a similar deal with Shirley Weber by including \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/state-budget-deal-includes-extra-funding-for-students-with-lowest-test-scores/599405\">$300 million in one-time funding\u003c/a> for the state’s lowest-performing students. That funding applied to all students regardless of race to avoid a potential legal conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts and advocates say race-blind solutions won’t close the achievement gap for Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the lowest-performing groups do better, that benefits students across the state,” Howard said. “I think the governor got it wrong here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tweaking the Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California funds its K–12 public schools through the Local Control Funding Formula, a system enacted in 2013. The formula gives more money to districts serving higher percentages of high-needs students — English learners, foster children and students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"school-funding\"]The intent is equity over equality: more resources for students who need them most. And while research shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/targeted-k-12-funding-and-student-outcomes/\">the Local Control Funding Formula has helped close gaps\u003c/a> in graduation rates, college readiness and test scores, some advocates and legislators have said the state needs to increase accountability over how districts spend the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-releases/lawsuit-claims-la-unified-plans-illegally-divert-2-billion-intended-serve-high-need\">ACLU sued the Los Angeles Unified School District\u003c/a> for failing to spend the money generated by English learners, foster children and students from lower-income families on services for those groups. In 2021, the California Department of Education found that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/state-orders-stricter-county-oversight-of-districts-spending-for-low-income-kids-english-learners/656621\">three school districts in San Bernardino County\u003c/a> misused funds for high-needs students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s bill would have added the subgroup with the lowest standardized test scores to the three student groups specified in the funding formula. Subgroups of students, like students with disabilities, that already qualify districts for additional state and federal funding would not qualify. That left racial and ethnic groups as the remaining categories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the bill would have allocated $400 million to districts and charter schools for their Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ‘equity multiplier’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s proposed budget, Weber’s bill became the “equity multiplier.” The proposal allocates $300 million for elementary and middle schools where at least 90% of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. For high schools, that percentage is 85%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike funding formula money that goes to districts, the dollars from the equity multiplier will go directly to schools and the rules will be stricter about where the money can be spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks Allen, an education policy adviser for Newsom and the executive director of the State Board of Education, said Weber’s bill was a “launching pad.” He pointed out that Weber’s bill didn’t include any requirements for districts on spending the money. He said Newsom’s proposal will have more accountability measures to make sure schools spend the money on the students with the highest needs. Newsom and his advisers are still working on those details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s offices provided little comment about Newsom’s proposal. When asked whether Weber was disappointed by it, her chief-of-staff, Tiffany Ryan, wrote in an email only that the “equity multiplier” is a “step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how the state will allocate the $300 million to the qualifying schools. Those details will be released in the education trailer bill that comes out later this year, state officials said. The trailer bill will describe the specific education programs that will receive money through the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Potential legal problems\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Weber’s office and the bill’s sponsors said Newsom raised concerns about violating the state’s Proposition 209 and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The former prohibits preferential treatment of a racial or ethnic group, and the latter guarantees equal protection for all citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no mention of these potential conflicts in any of the analyses of the bill. However, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2635#\">one analysis\u003c/a> for Shirley Weber’s 2018 bill identifies a potential conflict with Prop. 209, stating the bill would “ultimately target an ethnic group for supplemental funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Akilah Weber’s bill say it doesn’t mention race but rather the group of students with the lowest test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was never once a racial thing,” Laster said. “It’s about the category rather than who’s in the category.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said the issue remains unclear because no law has been adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The potential problem here is that among the available subgroups for test scores, many of them are race-defined,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials declined to comment on the potential legal conflicts. Weber’s and Newsom’s offices didn’t provide full details about the backroom deal that led to the race-neutral budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Lori Wilson, a Fairfield Democrat and chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, said Weber’s bill was a top priority for the caucus last year, and she’s pleased with the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To get to where you want to be, it has to be an incremental approach,” Wilson said. “We do not look at it as a loss in any way, shape or form.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A loss for some\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some California districts have seen success with programs that target Black students. At Fresno Unified, Lisa Mitchell oversees the \u003ca href=\"https://a4.fresnounified.org/\">African-American Academic Acceleration program\u003c/a>. In 2017, the local school board started allocating $4 million to the program each year. This year, the program has an additional $2 million thanks to emergency COVID funds from the federal government.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lisa Mitchell, executive director, Fresno Unified's African-American Acceleration program\"]‘Why do we give to Black students? Because Black students need the most help.’[/pullquote]The district used the money to hire teachers, tutors and counselors dedicated to increasing test scores and grades and decreasing suspension and expulsion rates for the district’s Black students. Between 2017 and 2019, the district’s Black students saw slight improvements in test scores, but those gains were wiped out during the pandemic. In 2022, less than 1 in 5 Black students met or exceeded English language arts standards and 1 in 10 met or exceeded math standards. Mitchell said the program could be doing more to train teachers as well as more to train parents to teach reading at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of great programs, but they’re not adequately staffed,” Mitchell said. It’s unclear exactly how much money the bill would have directed to the district, but she said it would have helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The acceleration program offers a 10-week after-school literacy program in the spring and a four-week program in the summer. The curriculum is based on African American authors. The district also offers a three-week coding boot camp for fifth and sixth graders that also teaches students about the contributions of African American scientists. While most of the students in these programs are Black, Mitchell said the district doesn’t turn anyone away. The program also provides on-campus supervision and instruction for suspended students as well as coaching sessions for parents who want to teach reading at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the district hasn’t encountered threats of lawsuits or criticism based on Prop. 209 or the 14th Amendment. She said district administrators and community members generally support her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to explain to people that equity and equality don’t mean the same thing,” Mitchell said. “Why do we give to Black students? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Fortune is president and CEO of the charter school organization Fortune School of Education and was one of the lead sponsors of the bill. She said the proposal does not reflect the intentions of Weber’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds good, but it doesn’t actually get to the students who need the help,” she said. “This is an apple, and what we wanted was an orange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill wasn’t just about race. Weber’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2774\">AB 2774\u003c/a> would have given additional funding to school districts and charter schools for the student group with the lowest standardized test scores statewide. In 2022, that group was Black students: Statewide, 30% of Black students met or exceeded standards in English language arts, and 16% met or exceeded standards in math in the 2021–22 school year. For white students, those percentages were 61% for English language arts and 48% for math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Test scores dropped slightly for all students during the pandemic, and the achievement gap persisted. In the spring of 2019, the last year of standardized testing before the pandemic shutdown, 33% of Black students met or exceeded English language arts standards, and 21% met or exceeded math standards. Among white students, 66% and 54%, respectively, met or exceeded standards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Supporters of Weber’s bill said it would have helped Black students — as the lowest-performing group on state standardized test scores — improve academically. At the same time, the legislation would have used test scores to ensure the funding was producing results: Once Black students’ scores were no longer the lowest, the next group with the lowest test scores would qualify for the additional funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If after one or two years those students were progressing, it could be any other student group that could be considered,” said Christina Laster, an educational adviser for Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and a co-sponsor of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts say that while elected officials and policymakers are quick to identify the racial achievement gaps, they lack the political will to target Black students with extra resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re really afraid to have hard conversations and subsequent legislation around race and how we achieve racial justice in education,” said Tyrone Howard, education professor at UCLA. “I don’t think you can take 245 years of slavery and Jim Crow and a legacy of separate and unequal education and expect this gap to not exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s bill isn’t a new idea. Her mother, former Assemblymember and current Secretary of State Shirley Weber, authored nearly identical bills in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2635\">2018\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB575\">2019\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2685\">2020\u003c/a>. None of them made it out of the state Assembly. In 2018, Newsom made a similar deal with Shirley Weber by including \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/state-budget-deal-includes-extra-funding-for-students-with-lowest-test-scores/599405\">$300 million in one-time funding\u003c/a> for the state’s lowest-performing students. That funding applied to all students regardless of race to avoid a potential legal conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts and advocates say race-blind solutions won’t close the achievement gap for Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the lowest-performing groups do better, that benefits students across the state,” Howard said. “I think the governor got it wrong here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tweaking the Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California funds its K–12 public schools through the Local Control Funding Formula, a system enacted in 2013. The formula gives more money to districts serving higher percentages of high-needs students — English learners, foster children and students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The intent is equity over equality: more resources for students who need them most. And while research shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/targeted-k-12-funding-and-student-outcomes/\">the Local Control Funding Formula has helped close gaps\u003c/a> in graduation rates, college readiness and test scores, some advocates and legislators have said the state needs to increase accountability over how districts spend the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-releases/lawsuit-claims-la-unified-plans-illegally-divert-2-billion-intended-serve-high-need\">ACLU sued the Los Angeles Unified School District\u003c/a> for failing to spend the money generated by English learners, foster children and students from lower-income families on services for those groups. In 2021, the California Department of Education found that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/state-orders-stricter-county-oversight-of-districts-spending-for-low-income-kids-english-learners/656621\">three school districts in San Bernardino County\u003c/a> misused funds for high-needs students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s bill would have added the subgroup with the lowest standardized test scores to the three student groups specified in the funding formula. Subgroups of students, like students with disabilities, that already qualify districts for additional state and federal funding would not qualify. That left racial and ethnic groups as the remaining categories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the bill would have allocated $400 million to districts and charter schools for their Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ‘equity multiplier’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s proposed budget, Weber’s bill became the “equity multiplier.” The proposal allocates $300 million for elementary and middle schools where at least 90% of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. For high schools, that percentage is 85%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike funding formula money that goes to districts, the dollars from the equity multiplier will go directly to schools and the rules will be stricter about where the money can be spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks Allen, an education policy adviser for Newsom and the executive director of the State Board of Education, said Weber’s bill was a “launching pad.” He pointed out that Weber’s bill didn’t include any requirements for districts on spending the money. He said Newsom’s proposal will have more accountability measures to make sure schools spend the money on the students with the highest needs. Newsom and his advisers are still working on those details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s offices provided little comment about Newsom’s proposal. When asked whether Weber was disappointed by it, her chief-of-staff, Tiffany Ryan, wrote in an email only that the “equity multiplier” is a “step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how the state will allocate the $300 million to the qualifying schools. Those details will be released in the education trailer bill that comes out later this year, state officials said. The trailer bill will describe the specific education programs that will receive money through the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Potential legal problems\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Weber’s office and the bill’s sponsors said Newsom raised concerns about violating the state’s Proposition 209 and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The former prohibits preferential treatment of a racial or ethnic group, and the latter guarantees equal protection for all citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no mention of these potential conflicts in any of the analyses of the bill. However, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2635#\">one analysis\u003c/a> for Shirley Weber’s 2018 bill identifies a potential conflict with Prop. 209, stating the bill would “ultimately target an ethnic group for supplemental funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Akilah Weber’s bill say it doesn’t mention race but rather the group of students with the lowest test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was never once a racial thing,” Laster said. “It’s about the category rather than who’s in the category.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said the issue remains unclear because no law has been adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The potential problem here is that among the available subgroups for test scores, many of them are race-defined,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials declined to comment on the potential legal conflicts. Weber’s and Newsom’s offices didn’t provide full details about the backroom deal that led to the race-neutral budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Lori Wilson, a Fairfield Democrat and chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, said Weber’s bill was a top priority for the caucus last year, and she’s pleased with the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To get to where you want to be, it has to be an incremental approach,” Wilson said. “We do not look at it as a loss in any way, shape or form.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A loss for some\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some California districts have seen success with programs that target Black students. At Fresno Unified, Lisa Mitchell oversees the \u003ca href=\"https://a4.fresnounified.org/\">African-American Academic Acceleration program\u003c/a>. In 2017, the local school board started allocating $4 million to the program each year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district used the money to hire teachers, tutors and counselors dedicated to increasing test scores and grades and decreasing suspension and expulsion rates for the district’s Black students. Between 2017 and 2019, the district’s Black students saw slight improvements in test scores, but those gains were wiped out during the pandemic. In 2022, less than 1 in 5 Black students met or exceeded English language arts standards and 1 in 10 met or exceeded math standards. Mitchell said the program could be doing more to train teachers as well as more to train parents to teach reading at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of great programs, but they’re not adequately staffed,” Mitchell said. It’s unclear exactly how much money the bill would have directed to the district, but she said it would have helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The acceleration program offers a 10-week after-school literacy program in the spring and a four-week program in the summer. The curriculum is based on African American authors. The district also offers a three-week coding boot camp for fifth and sixth graders that also teaches students about the contributions of African American scientists. While most of the students in these programs are Black, Mitchell said the district doesn’t turn anyone away. The program also provides on-campus supervision and instruction for suspended students as well as coaching sessions for parents who want to teach reading at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the district hasn’t encountered threats of lawsuits or criticism based on Prop. 209 or the 14th Amendment. She said district administrators and community members generally support her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to explain to people that equity and equality don’t mean the same thing,” Mitchell said. “Why do we give to Black students? Because Black students need the most help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the governor’s office and the State Board of Education, however, said the $300 million for high-poverty schools will ultimately lead to greater equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand sometimes folks are wed to their initial idea,” Allen said. “When folks have a chance to sit with this and study it, our hope is that they’ll see there’s a lot to like here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Erica Yee contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n a sunny October afternoon, a young woman exits the Planned Parenthood office in Napa carrying a small white paper bag. She hasn’t taken more than five steps toward her car before she’s approached: “Hi, can I give you some information about free resources?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the Friday before Halloween of 2022, four months after the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/24/1107126432/abortion-bans-supreme-court-roe-v-wade\">leading to bans on most abortions in about 13 states\u003c/a> (so far). It’s about a week before the midterms, when California voters will decide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931183/californians-vote-to-protect-abortion-in-constitution\">enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, here in Napa, the abortion conversation looks like this: A woman named Teresa Conemac sits on a stool steps away from the Planned Parenthood entrance, wearing scrubs and a badge that reads “client advocate,” praying and performing what she and her fellow volunteers with the Christian anti-abortion organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.40daysforlife.com/en/\">40 Days for Life\u003c/a> call “sidewalk counseling.” She talks to people approaching or exiting the clinic, and gives them pamphlets featuring widely debunked claims about the dangers of abortion and birth control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937384 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a older white woman in orange scrubs talks to a Black woman in dark clothing outside a Planned Parenthood health clinic\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conemac talks to a person leaving a Planned Parenthood clinic in Napa. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Conemac also tells them about resources at, and distributes cards for, the facility next door: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xuUaKU87J8\">Napa Women’s Center\u003c/a>, opened by the Christian nonprofit Napa Valley Culture of Life in 2020. No medical professionals work at this facility, but a visitor can take a free pregnancy test, learn about adoption agencies and pick up pamphlets that inaccurately link abortion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/medical-treatments/abortion-and-breast-cancer-risk.html\">breast cancer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/well/can-an-abortion-affect-your-fertility.html\">infertility\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/09/news-facts-abortion-mental-health\">depression\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22270271/\">death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa Women’s Center is an anti-abortion center — sometimes known as a “crisis pregnancy center.” It’s one of approximately 3,000 such facilities across the country. Established by faith-based organizations, anti-abortion centers exist primarily to dissuade people from having abortions. They often attract clients by opening in close proximity to abortion care clinics and by advertising reproductive health services, despite the vast majority operating without medical licensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa, it is no accident that an anti-abortion center operates right next to the city’s lone Planned Parenthood, in a state of uneasy tension, on one small city block. Connected by a 6-foot wooden fence, their facades are plain, and notably similar to the casual observer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But behind those doors lie two vastly different worlds. For a pregnant person seeking health care, the choice of which one to enter comes with potentially life-changing consequences. None of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11926949/newsom-signs-slate-of-abortion-protection-bills\">new state laws aimed at strengthening abortion rights\u003c/a> can help a patient who’s standing on the sidewalk outside, deciding between the two, confused about what they’re seeing. And as long as California fails to regulate anti-abortion centers, advocates say, calling itself a sanctuary state won’t change a thing about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We don’t have a moment to lose’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anti-abortion centers have existed in some form since the late 1960s, when Catholic activists first sought to counter the growing legalization of abortion in the United States. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the right to an abortion was protected by the Constitution in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision — which, had it been upheld, would have celebrated a 50th anniversary Jan. 22 — the so-called crisis pregnancy center movement expanded to include evangelical Christians. That expansion led to networks like Heartbeat International, which operates more than 2,000 centers worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-abortion centers proliferated throughout the ’90s and aughts, in part thanks to federal grants for abstinence-only education under President George W. Bush; many received further federal funds due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11730464/california-sues-trump-administration-over-new-abortion-restrictions\">changes made to Title X under the Trump administration\u003c/a>. In 2019, for example, the California-based network of centers calling itself Obria Medical Clinics — which operates in Oakland, Redwood City, Union City and San José — was awarded $5.1 million over three years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11934819,news_11931183\"]But with the fall of Roe, abortion-rights advocates say these centers have assumed an even more powerful role in the landscape, becoming an increasingly valuable tool in the anti-abortion movement’s arsenal. At the same time, advocates charge, anti-abortion centers only intensify the inequities in abortion access along racial and socioeconomic lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These centers’ impact might be most dramatic in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html\">26 states that either recently banned or plan to heavily restrict abortions\u003c/a>, where even seeking out abortion information could put a pregnant person on the wrong side of the law. But advocates say anti-abortion centers also play a surprisingly significant role in blue states like California, where they \u003ca href=\"https://www.cwlc.org/report-shows-anti-abortion-cpcs-receive-federal-and-state-funding-to-mislead-clients-provide-few-services/#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20CPCs%20in,than%20CPCs%20in%20other%20states\">outnumber clinics that provide abortions by 20%\u003c/a> — and where as many as \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Center_on_Reproductive_Health/California_Abortion_Estimates.pdf?campaign_id=49&emc=edit_ca_20220627&instance_id=65130&nl=california-today®i_id=161520323&segment_id=96906&te=1&user_id=fa2fb80d2a88c6eb21eaedcb8ce6386f\">16,000 people are now expected to travel each year in search of abortion care (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of those issues where time is of the essence to the women who are involved, whose lives are at stake,” says former Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer of the lack of regulation around anti-abortion centers. “And because of what’s happening nationally, we don’t have a moment to lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his last months as city attorney in 2022, Feuer successfully introduced a city ordinance that makes it punishable by up to $10,000 for a facility to “mislead women into believing they offer a full range of reproductive health services, including abortion or abortion referrals” when they do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may already be in a situation where women who are utterly desperate to exercise their full reproductive choices are coming to our city,” says Feuer. “And we need to ensure that when they do, no pregnancy center misleads them about their services and what their options are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Christine Henneberg, Bay Area OB-GYN and author\"]‘Working at medical facilities, we have so many regulations on everything we do. But then these places that are \u003cem>not\u003c/em> medical facilities — that are disguising themselves as medical facilities — are totally unregulated? It makes no sense.’[/pullquote]Going unmentioned in LA’s new ordinance is how difficult it’s proven to regulate these facilities — Democratic lawmakers have been trying, and mostly failing, for years. Most recently, California’s 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB775\">Reproductive FACT Act\u003c/a> required reproductive health care facilities to inform clients about the state’s programs that provide low-cost or free contraception and abortion, and forced unlicensed centers to post notices acknowledging that they were not licensed health care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, after the law was challenged by an anti-abortion legal organization, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/606427673/supreme-court-sides-with-california-anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers\">U.S. Supreme Court voted 5–4 to strike it down\u003c/a> on the grounds that it violated the First Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://christinehenneberg.com/\">Christine Henneberg\u003c/a>, a Bay Area OB-GYN and abortion provider — who says “a fair number” of her patients have interacted with an anti-abortion center by the time they land in her office — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-06-22/crisis-pregnancy-centers-abortion-deception-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continued lack of regulation\u003c/a> is “absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working at medical facilities, we have so many regulations on everything we do,” says Henneberg. “But then these places that are \u003cem>not\u003c/em> medical facilities — that are disguising themselves as medical facilities — are totally unregulated? It makes no sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absent meaningful regulation, some agencies have focused on education: In June of 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-issues-consumer-alert-warning-californians-crisis\">a consumer alert about anti-abortion centers\u003c/a>. And the state’s new hub for abortion resources, abortion.ca.gov, includes a section on \u003ca href=\"https://abortion.ca.gov/find-a-provider/#fake-abortion-information\">how to spot the differences between such centers and legitimate clinics that offer abortion care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to Henneberg, it’s unfair to put the onus of research on the consumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you send a patient to get their tonsils removed, the language is of informed consent: You tell them the risks, benefits and alternatives that you can offer them. That is the physician’s responsibility in an ethical sense, and it’s the law,” she says. “You don’t assume, oh, well, they can find out for themselves … it boggles my mind that anyone would think it’s the responsibility of the consumer seeking a legal service to figure this out on their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Patients get confused’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lynda Metz knew immediately that the building she’d entered wasn’t a health clinic. But it was 1995, she was 17, and the center had been the first thing listed when she looked up “pregnancy test” in the Yellow Pages. Pregnant and terrified in a strict Southern Baptist community north of Little Rock, Arkansas, she was happy to take whatever free services were closest to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was nothing clinical about it,” recalls Metz, who went on to have two children by the age of 20. “I peed on the stick, and then a woman pulled me into a room and took out her Bible … and kind of held me hostage for two hours. She showed me pictures of little plastic babies with arms and legs and said, ‘This is what your baby looks like now.’ There was nothing about how to [take care of myself]. Their focus was just baby, baby, baby.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1534px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11937406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM.png\" alt=\"a young teen girl with brown hair in a school photo at left, and in a portrait with her infant son on the right\" width=\"1534\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM.png 1534w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM-800x451.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM-1020x574.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1534px) 100vw, 1534px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, Lynda Metz in a photo from her sophomore year of high school, the year before she became pregnant. On the right, Metz a month before her 18th birthday, with her son Matthew. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lynda Metz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly three decades later, search engines have taken the place of the Yellow Pages — with arguably more complicated results. Last August, responding to mounting public pressure, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/yelp-crisis-pregnancy-centers/index.html\">Yelp\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/25/google-maps-abortions/\">Google Maps\u003c/a> announced that their apps would begin labeling so-called crisis pregnancy centers differently from health clinics that provide abortion care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would appear they’ve followed through, to a point: Up until July, a search for “abortion” on Google Maps returned nearly two dozen anti-abortion centers across the Bay Area’s nine counties, including one in San Francisco, one in Oakland and several in the South Bay. Six months later, that’s no longer the case. However, a search for “pregnancy center” or “women’s clinic” still returns most of these centers. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-google-search-abortion-clinic-crisis-pregnancy-center-ads/\">paid advertisements for anti-abortion centers still regularly appear in Google’s search results\u003c/a> without any disclaimers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carly Thomsen, assistant professor of gender and sexuality at Middlebury College in Vermont, thinks the algorithm update was a small, overdue step in the right direction — but she doesn’t expect it to put much of a dent in anti-abortion centers’ business model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can see how people would think crisis pregnancy centers are using technology to transform their approach, but I actually don’t think that’s true. I think technology has allowed them to make their same strategies more sophisticated and more wide-reaching,” says Thomsen, who recently co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/12/opinion/crisis-pregnancy-centers-roe.html\">deeply researched opinion piece on these facilities for \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “And that strategy is to use scare tactics and deception to make claims about what they will offer you in terms of support, even though they’re never held accountable for any of these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937631\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt='a mural that says \"live life love\" is seen on the side of a building labeled \"alpha pregnancy center\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alpha Pregnancy Center, a faith-based anti-abortion center on Mission Street in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco. After months of public pressure, Google Maps recently updated its algorithm so this center no longer appears when a user searches the word ‘abortion.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, Thomsen was part of a successful effort in 2010 to ban anti-abortion centers from advertising on campus. It’s still the only school, to her knowledge, with that restriction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the most insidious tactic, says Thomsen, remains simple geography: By design, religious groups open anti-abortion centers in close proximity to clinics that offer abortion care. In Thomsen’s research on these geographic relationships, she found that more than 99% of clinics that offer abortion care nationwide have an anti-abortion center located close by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any place there’s an abortion clinic, there’s a crisis pregnancy center,” she says. “And that’s very intentional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, say experts: these facilities count on vulnerable people making mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dynamic is especially evident in places like Napa, where anti-abortion activists work blatantly to direct people away from Planned Parenthood and toward the Napa Women’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients get confused,” says Gloria Martinez, senior director of operations for Planned Parenthood Northern California, of the situation at those two facilities. “Especially if it’s their first time with us or visiting that location, and there’s this person out there in scrubs and this person is telling them, ‘Oh, come over here instead.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/napa-council-votes-for-30-foot-buffer-at-planned-parenthood-center-after-years-of-abortion/article_5338519e-c089-5a82-8bcd-562d833ea369.html\">so-called buffer zone\u003c/a> is supposed to render the clinic’s entrance off-limits to protesters, Martinez says local law enforcement seems hesitant to enforce it due to fears “that the opposition will take action against them” with lawsuits that claim the buffer violates their First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presence of protesters is one major reason this Napa location of Planned Parenthood is scheduled to close in 2023 after more than 20 years. It will reopen in a new, larger facility elsewhere in Napa — staff are hesitant to say exactly where, lest anti-abortion activists begin planning protests there as well — in the hopes of a better patient experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the current patient experience, it’s difficult to quantify exactly how many people who intend to visit Planned Parenthood end up at the anti-abortion center next door. But there are indicators. During the twice-yearly campaigns by 40 Days for Life — in which anti-abortion protesters are present in larger numbers for, yes, 40 days — Martinez says the no-show rate for appointments at that Planned Parenthood doubles: It normally hovers at around 19%, but during campaigns, the number “skyrockets to 40, sometimes 50%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937702 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The hand of an older white woman holds a pamphlet describing inaccurate side effects of abortions\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">40 Days for Life volunteer Teresa Conemac holds pamphlets she distributes outside Planned Parenthood in Napa. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just another barrier [for patients], when there are already so many barriers,” says Martinez. “So many of our patients are low-income, or maybe they’re facing a language barrier or a transportation barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then this is another layer that they have to face: harassment. Harassment when seeking health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Targeting communities of color\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even if a person mistakenly visits an anti-abortion center, then eventually finds their way to a clinic that offers abortion care, it’s difficult to overstate the trauma that such an experience can inflict, says Susy Chávez Herrera, communications director for California Latinas for Reproductive Justice in Los Angeles (CLRJ).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be really intense, and it can really hurt a person’s well-being,” says Chávez Herrera. “Whether physically, by delaying a procedure that might be needed for medical reasons, or mentally, because of the toll it takes on folks who are seeking a medical service and met with this series of misinformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be especially true considering the already vulnerable communities targeted by anti-abortion centers, according to advocates: immigrants, first-generation Americans, Black and Latinx people, young people and people from lower-income families living in rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-800x529.jpg\" alt='pamphlets in English and Spanish on a shelf show a Black woman and a Latina woman who are pregnant. The pamphlet is titled \"the first 9 months\"' width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-1920x1270.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamphlets available at the Alpha Pregnancy Center in San Francisco. The APC, unlike the majority of anti-abortion centers, has a medical license. \u003ccite>(Emma Silvers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know they target the Latinx community,” says Chávez Herrera. “Just driving down the street here in LA, you see billboards from these groups, with this misinformation, in neighborhoods that we know have largely Latinx communities. And we know these anti-abortion clinics set up shop in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study by The Alliance, a consortium of law organizations and policy groups studying reproductive justice, found that \u003ca href=\"https://alliancestateadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/Alliance-CPC-Study-Designed-to-Deceive.pdf\">some anti-abortion centers try to appeal to Black communities (PDF)\u003c/a> — which already face disproportionate maternal mortality rates — by “blackwashing” their websites or pamphlets, prominently featuring images of Black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Latinx community, advocates say anti-abortion centers prey on fears undocumented immigrants might have about visiting a government-funded health clinic, wary that it could lead to deportation; others note that anti-abortion centers make a point of advertising on Spanish-language radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-800x439.png\" alt=\"a screenshot of a spanish language website of a crisis pregnancy center called real options medical clinics, featuring a woman in scrubs talking to another woman, a patient\" width=\"800\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-800x439.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-1020x560.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-1536x844.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-2048x1125.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-1920x1055.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the website of Obria Medical Clinics, a network of anti-abortion centers that operates five facilities in the Bay Area, funded partially by federal grants it received under the Trump administration. Obria clinics also advertise that they accept Medi-Cal, which means their clinics receive reimbursements from the taxpayer-funded state program.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Care Net, one of the two biggest national networks of anti-abortion centers, has had \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9189146/\">a programming arm explicitly devoted to outreach in Black and Latinx communities\u003c/a> since 2003, according to a study in the \u003cem>International Journal of Women’s Health\u003c/em>. Initially dubbed the “Urban Initiative,” tactics include advertising on Black Entertainment Television (BET) and “drawing comparisons between abortion and slavery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that they target communities of color,” says Thomsen. “So we also need to be talking about crisis pregnancy centers as something that is impeding racial justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-800x338.png\" alt=\"a Black woman is seen on a website for the Alpha Pregnancy Center, a Christian anti-abortion center \" width=\"800\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-800x338.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-1020x431.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-160x68.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-1536x650.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-2048x866.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-1920x812.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the website of the Alpha Pregnancy Center, an anti-abortion center in San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One small step in the right direction, according to abortion rights advocates, is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2586\">Assembly Bill 2586\u003c/a>, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September as a means of addressing “the reproductive and sexual health inequities that Black, Indigenous and other communities of color face” by issuing grants to community-based organizations that focus on culturally relevant care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Carly Thomsen, assistant professor of gender and sexuality, Middlebury College\"]‘There’s no question that they target communities of color. So we also need to be talking about crisis pregnancy centers as something that is impeding racial justice.’[/pullquote]The bill’s text included a pointed section about how the “dissemination of misinformation … particularly at the hands of organizations with a demonstrated interest in limiting choice that often misrepresent themselves as health centers, imposes a harmful barrier to reproductive health care access, especially for communities most impacted by a number of other obstacles to care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While abortion-rights advocates applaud the bill — CLRJ endorsed it enthusiastically — some also note that funding legitimate reproductive health organizations does little to directly curtail the impact that anti-abortion centers have in communities of color, the result of decades of groundwork by anti-abortion activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re talking about is an organized campaign of misinformation,” says Chávez Herrera. “And that has been around since well before the repeal [of Roe v. Wade], even in states that are trying to protect abortion rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘God works in mysterious ways’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the street in Napa, as Conemac and a fellow volunteer perform their “sidewalk counseling” next to signs they’ve brought that read “EXPOSE PLANNED PARENTHOOD,” people drive by and honk every few minutes in response. In some cases the honk is followed by a middle finger, or a yelled epithet. They also receive thumbs-up signals, and in one case a shout of “God bless you!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inside the Napa Women’s Center, it’s quiet; the paint and furniture are all soothing beige and pastels. In a room often used to counsel pregnant people, Julie Murillo, executive director of the center, declines to estimate what percentage of the people entering the center are doing so mistakenly, thinking they will be able to access birth control or abortion care. It happens, she says casually, “all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a car with signs that read 'expose planned parenthood' outside a crisis pregnancy center\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car with signs for the organization 40 Days for Life sits outside the Napa Women’s Center, an anti-abortion center opened by faith-based nonprofit Napa Valley Culture of Life. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I tell them that we’re not Planned Parenthood, we’re the Napa Women’s Center, and then I ask them if we can help them on what they need,” she says. She’s seated by a shelf full of English and Spanish brochures with titles like “Life Before Birth,” “What You Need to Know About Abortion Procedures” and one advertising information about “abortion pill reversal” — an experimental hormonal treatment not approved by the FDA, which the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said is potentially dangerous and not supported by science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not here to lie to anybody,” says Murillo. “We are here to try and tell them the truth about what happens to their bodies, and to help them make good decisions for their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937683 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three printed-out signs advertising, among other things, 'abortion pill reversal' in a row of glass panels in a front door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs on the door for the Napa Women’s Center advertise ‘abortion pill reversal’ at the facility in Napa on Nov. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like most anti-abortion centers, the Napa Women’s Center has no medical professionals on staff. But the organization is in the process of recruiting a nurse practitioner; then, the center plans to begin offering ultrasounds, which anti-abortion activists consider a powerful tool in dissuading a person from having an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alpha Pregnancy Center in San Francisco may be an example of what many anti-abortion centers would like to achieve. The facility — which is not located near an abortion care clinic, and which states clearly on its website that it does not offer abortions — \u003ca href=\"https://www.alphapc.org/our-beginnings\">was founded by a group of pastors in 1983. \u003c/a>But the center completed a two-year process to obtain a medical license in 2015, and now has a full-time registered nurse overseeing its medical services, including ultrasounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For certified OB-GYNs like Henneberg, ultrasounds are also, notably, often the first indication that a patient has mistakenly been to an anti-abortion center before landing in a legitimate medical office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll ask me questions like, ‘Do I have to look at the ultrasound?’ And I’ll say, ‘No, of course not.’ And they’ll say, ‘Oh, well, the other place made me look at the ultrasound, and I really don’t wanna see it,’” she says. In some cases, according to several reports, \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2021/10/crisis-pregnancy-centers-ultrasounds-accuracy-stakes/\">an anti-abortion center might perform an ultrasound, then show patients a falsified image of a fetus at a later stage of development\u003c/a> to dissuade them from seeking an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you probe a little, often you’ll hear, ‘Yeah, I went to this place first and they told me not to get [an abortion]. And they’re obviously usually annoyed by that,” says Henneberg. “That’s not why they went there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a gray building with words that say 'free pregnancy tests' and 'Napa Women's Center, health and wellness matter'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Napa Women’s Center, a facility opened by faith-based nonprofit Napa Valley Culture of Life, advertises free pregnancy tests. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Murillo remains adamant that Napa Women’s Center staff are not out to trick anyone. And she says that while the center and 40 Days for Life share the same beliefs about abortion — they are hoping to “help people choose life” — they are separate organizations. (Technically, the two nonprofits do have separate tax ID numbers. But in a video advertising the Napa Women’s Center, Napa Valley Culture of Life president Gerry Cruz details how the center grew directly out of 40 Days for Life’s 2009 campaign in front of Planned Parenthood. Volunteers and staff are on a first-name basis, many belong to the same church, and so on.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In discussing the center’s offerings, Murillo is especially proud of the center’s “baby boutique”: In exchange for watching videos on relationships, fetal development and parenting, visitors can earn points, which can be exchanged for diapers or formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Murillo, she comes from a wine and hospitality background. “God works in mysterious ways,” she says, by way of explaining how she landed in this profession, which amounts to a combination of unlicensed social work and, ostensibly, distributing medical information. “You never know where you’re going to end up, and sometimes you just say yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt tricked’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are encouraging signs, say some abortion-rights advocates, that anti-abortion centers may finally be garnering attention. In June, a group of four Democratic congressmembers including Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4469/text?r=18&s=1\">Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act\u003c/a>, which would have the Federal Trade Commission issue rules regarding deceptive advertising by anti-abortion centers. And the newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-launches-california-reproductive-rights-task-force\">California Reproductive Rights Task Force\u003c/a> lists “enforcing consumer protection laws against deceptive or unlawful conduct concerning reproductive healthcare” as one of its objectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the anti-abortion movement may already be adjusting its strategies in response. Anti-abortion activists have explicitly stated that they view the Dobbs decision as a chance to expand their networks, including opening new centers. The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates has led an effort to help existing anti-abortion centers hire trained nurses and obtain medical licensing — potentially shielding them from lawsuits about false advertising. And some facilities have increasingly touted their so-called baby boutiques, branding themselves primarily as charities, though due to lack of oversight there’s very little data on how much they actually give away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a white woman with short blond and gray hair in a pink suit speaks in front of the Capitol building\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), seen here speaking about abortion rights at a press conference on June 15, 2022, is one of the members of Congress behind the Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act, which would have the Federal Trade Commission issue rules regarding deceptive advertising by anti-abortion centers. \u003ccite>(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, according to the Alliance study, as of a 2021 count, anti-abortion centers outnumbered clinics that offer abortion care nationally by an average ratio of 3 to 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, roughly 170 anti-abortion centers continue to operate — and at least 10 have received state funding through Medi-Cal reimbursements, also according to the Alliance study, which noted that “[i]nvestment of public money in CPCs is escalating, especially in the states, with virtually no government oversight, accountability, or transparency.” An untold number of centers also received both federal and state funds during the pandemic through the Paycheck Protection Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa, as daylight wanes, the 40 Days for Life volunteers pack up their things; Conemac likes to focus on the hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., since that’s when she believes Planned Parenthood pharmacists give out RU-486, otherwise known as the abortion pill. (This location does not perform surgical abortions.) In her place, a group of teenage volunteers from the organization gathers with anti-abortion signs, and stands laughing and talking, flanking the space between the two centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937681 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a row of young teens holds anti-abortion signs on the sidewalk in between a Planned Parenthood and a crisis pregnancy center. From across the street, they seem to be diverse in terms of ethnicity, age., and gender.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young volunteers for 40 Days for Life stand with anti-abortion signs on the sidewalk between Planned Parenthood and the Napa Women’s Center in Napa on Oct. 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Emma Silvers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of them look to be around 17. That’s the age Lynda Metz was when she first set foot in an anti-abortion center, scared and confused. Some 27 years later, Metz — now a proudly pro-abortion-rights grandmother still living in a conservative area of Arkansas — can’t help but think about her experience. For one, that center is still in operation, and occasionally she has to drive by it. Or she’ll see a sign from a local business announcing they donate to that facility, and she makes a mental note not to shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also makes a point to talk to other young women in her community, and lets them know they have options. However, as Arkansas is now a state where abortion is “completely banned with very limited exceptions,” according to the Guttmacher Institute, those options are severely limited: A person seeking an abortion has to drive \u003ca href=\"https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/arkansas/abortion-statistics\">an average of more than 300 miles one-way to visit a clinic\u003c/a> that offers them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly, when Metz thinks about her experience, it still feels fresh, and she still feels confused. She can place herself in that room, trapped with that woman and the Bible, realizing she was not going to receive any support or information about her health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt tricked,” she says. And nearly three decades later, she says, “I still just don’t understand. It’s not a necessary service. You are literally tricking people into thinking that this is a certified health clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, how is this still legal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story has been updated to reflect The Associated Press’ new guidance on language to describe anti-abortion centers.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n a sunny October afternoon, a young woman exits the Planned Parenthood office in Napa carrying a small white paper bag. She hasn’t taken more than five steps toward her car before she’s approached: “Hi, can I give you some information about free resources?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the Friday before Halloween of 2022, four months after the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/24/1107126432/abortion-bans-supreme-court-roe-v-wade\">leading to bans on most abortions in about 13 states\u003c/a> (so far). It’s about a week before the midterms, when California voters will decide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931183/californians-vote-to-protect-abortion-in-constitution\">enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, here in Napa, the abortion conversation looks like this: A woman named Teresa Conemac sits on a stool steps away from the Planned Parenthood entrance, wearing scrubs and a badge that reads “client advocate,” praying and performing what she and her fellow volunteers with the Christian anti-abortion organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.40daysforlife.com/en/\">40 Days for Life\u003c/a> call “sidewalk counseling.” She talks to people approaching or exiting the clinic, and gives them pamphlets featuring widely debunked claims about the dangers of abortion and birth control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937384 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a older white woman in orange scrubs talks to a Black woman in dark clothing outside a Planned Parenthood health clinic\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59821_009_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conemac talks to a person leaving a Planned Parenthood clinic in Napa. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Conemac also tells them about resources at, and distributes cards for, the facility next door: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xuUaKU87J8\">Napa Women’s Center\u003c/a>, opened by the Christian nonprofit Napa Valley Culture of Life in 2020. No medical professionals work at this facility, but a visitor can take a free pregnancy test, learn about adoption agencies and pick up pamphlets that inaccurately link abortion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/medical-treatments/abortion-and-breast-cancer-risk.html\">breast cancer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/well/can-an-abortion-affect-your-fertility.html\">infertility\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/09/news-facts-abortion-mental-health\">depression\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22270271/\">death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa Women’s Center is an anti-abortion center — sometimes known as a “crisis pregnancy center.” It’s one of approximately 3,000 such facilities across the country. Established by faith-based organizations, anti-abortion centers exist primarily to dissuade people from having abortions. They often attract clients by opening in close proximity to abortion care clinics and by advertising reproductive health services, despite the vast majority operating without medical licensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa, it is no accident that an anti-abortion center operates right next to the city’s lone Planned Parenthood, in a state of uneasy tension, on one small city block. Connected by a 6-foot wooden fence, their facades are plain, and notably similar to the casual observer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But behind those doors lie two vastly different worlds. For a pregnant person seeking health care, the choice of which one to enter comes with potentially life-changing consequences. None of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11926949/newsom-signs-slate-of-abortion-protection-bills\">new state laws aimed at strengthening abortion rights\u003c/a> can help a patient who’s standing on the sidewalk outside, deciding between the two, confused about what they’re seeing. And as long as California fails to regulate anti-abortion centers, advocates say, calling itself a sanctuary state won’t change a thing about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We don’t have a moment to lose’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anti-abortion centers have existed in some form since the late 1960s, when Catholic activists first sought to counter the growing legalization of abortion in the United States. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the right to an abortion was protected by the Constitution in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision — which, had it been upheld, would have celebrated a 50th anniversary Jan. 22 — the so-called crisis pregnancy center movement expanded to include evangelical Christians. That expansion led to networks like Heartbeat International, which operates more than 2,000 centers worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-abortion centers proliferated throughout the ’90s and aughts, in part thanks to federal grants for abstinence-only education under President George W. Bush; many received further federal funds due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11730464/california-sues-trump-administration-over-new-abortion-restrictions\">changes made to Title X under the Trump administration\u003c/a>. In 2019, for example, the California-based network of centers calling itself Obria Medical Clinics — which operates in Oakland, Redwood City, Union City and San José — was awarded $5.1 million over three years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But with the fall of Roe, abortion-rights advocates say these centers have assumed an even more powerful role in the landscape, becoming an increasingly valuable tool in the anti-abortion movement’s arsenal. At the same time, advocates charge, anti-abortion centers only intensify the inequities in abortion access along racial and socioeconomic lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These centers’ impact might be most dramatic in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html\">26 states that either recently banned or plan to heavily restrict abortions\u003c/a>, where even seeking out abortion information could put a pregnant person on the wrong side of the law. But advocates say anti-abortion centers also play a surprisingly significant role in blue states like California, where they \u003ca href=\"https://www.cwlc.org/report-shows-anti-abortion-cpcs-receive-federal-and-state-funding-to-mislead-clients-provide-few-services/#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20CPCs%20in,than%20CPCs%20in%20other%20states\">outnumber clinics that provide abortions by 20%\u003c/a> — and where as many as \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Center_on_Reproductive_Health/California_Abortion_Estimates.pdf?campaign_id=49&emc=edit_ca_20220627&instance_id=65130&nl=california-today®i_id=161520323&segment_id=96906&te=1&user_id=fa2fb80d2a88c6eb21eaedcb8ce6386f\">16,000 people are now expected to travel each year in search of abortion care (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of those issues where time is of the essence to the women who are involved, whose lives are at stake,” says former Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer of the lack of regulation around anti-abortion centers. “And because of what’s happening nationally, we don’t have a moment to lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his last months as city attorney in 2022, Feuer successfully introduced a city ordinance that makes it punishable by up to $10,000 for a facility to “mislead women into believing they offer a full range of reproductive health services, including abortion or abortion referrals” when they do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may already be in a situation where women who are utterly desperate to exercise their full reproductive choices are coming to our city,” says Feuer. “And we need to ensure that when they do, no pregnancy center misleads them about their services and what their options are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Going unmentioned in LA’s new ordinance is how difficult it’s proven to regulate these facilities — Democratic lawmakers have been trying, and mostly failing, for years. Most recently, California’s 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB775\">Reproductive FACT Act\u003c/a> required reproductive health care facilities to inform clients about the state’s programs that provide low-cost or free contraception and abortion, and forced unlicensed centers to post notices acknowledging that they were not licensed health care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, after the law was challenged by an anti-abortion legal organization, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/606427673/supreme-court-sides-with-california-anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers\">U.S. Supreme Court voted 5–4 to strike it down\u003c/a> on the grounds that it violated the First Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://christinehenneberg.com/\">Christine Henneberg\u003c/a>, a Bay Area OB-GYN and abortion provider — who says “a fair number” of her patients have interacted with an anti-abortion center by the time they land in her office — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-06-22/crisis-pregnancy-centers-abortion-deception-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continued lack of regulation\u003c/a> is “absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working at medical facilities, we have so many regulations on everything we do,” says Henneberg. “But then these places that are \u003cem>not\u003c/em> medical facilities — that are disguising themselves as medical facilities — are totally unregulated? It makes no sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absent meaningful regulation, some agencies have focused on education: In June of 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-issues-consumer-alert-warning-californians-crisis\">a consumer alert about anti-abortion centers\u003c/a>. And the state’s new hub for abortion resources, abortion.ca.gov, includes a section on \u003ca href=\"https://abortion.ca.gov/find-a-provider/#fake-abortion-information\">how to spot the differences between such centers and legitimate clinics that offer abortion care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to Henneberg, it’s unfair to put the onus of research on the consumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you send a patient to get their tonsils removed, the language is of informed consent: You tell them the risks, benefits and alternatives that you can offer them. That is the physician’s responsibility in an ethical sense, and it’s the law,” she says. “You don’t assume, oh, well, they can find out for themselves … it boggles my mind that anyone would think it’s the responsibility of the consumer seeking a legal service to figure this out on their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Patients get confused’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lynda Metz knew immediately that the building she’d entered wasn’t a health clinic. But it was 1995, she was 17, and the center had been the first thing listed when she looked up “pregnancy test” in the Yellow Pages. Pregnant and terrified in a strict Southern Baptist community north of Little Rock, Arkansas, she was happy to take whatever free services were closest to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was nothing clinical about it,” recalls Metz, who went on to have two children by the age of 20. “I peed on the stick, and then a woman pulled me into a room and took out her Bible … and kind of held me hostage for two hours. She showed me pictures of little plastic babies with arms and legs and said, ‘This is what your baby looks like now.’ There was nothing about how to [take care of myself]. Their focus was just baby, baby, baby.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1534px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11937406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM.png\" alt=\"a young teen girl with brown hair in a school photo at left, and in a portrait with her infant son on the right\" width=\"1534\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM.png 1534w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM-800x451.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM-1020x574.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-08-at-2.46.20-PM-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1534px) 100vw, 1534px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, Lynda Metz in a photo from her sophomore year of high school, the year before she became pregnant. On the right, Metz a month before her 18th birthday, with her son Matthew. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lynda Metz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly three decades later, search engines have taken the place of the Yellow Pages — with arguably more complicated results. Last August, responding to mounting public pressure, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/yelp-crisis-pregnancy-centers/index.html\">Yelp\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/25/google-maps-abortions/\">Google Maps\u003c/a> announced that their apps would begin labeling so-called crisis pregnancy centers differently from health clinics that provide abortion care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would appear they’ve followed through, to a point: Up until July, a search for “abortion” on Google Maps returned nearly two dozen anti-abortion centers across the Bay Area’s nine counties, including one in San Francisco, one in Oakland and several in the South Bay. Six months later, that’s no longer the case. However, a search for “pregnancy center” or “women’s clinic” still returns most of these centers. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-google-search-abortion-clinic-crisis-pregnancy-center-ads/\">paid advertisements for anti-abortion centers still regularly appear in Google’s search results\u003c/a> without any disclaimers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carly Thomsen, assistant professor of gender and sexuality at Middlebury College in Vermont, thinks the algorithm update was a small, overdue step in the right direction — but she doesn’t expect it to put much of a dent in anti-abortion centers’ business model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can see how people would think crisis pregnancy centers are using technology to transform their approach, but I actually don’t think that’s true. I think technology has allowed them to make their same strategies more sophisticated and more wide-reaching,” says Thomsen, who recently co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/12/opinion/crisis-pregnancy-centers-roe.html\">deeply researched opinion piece on these facilities for \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “And that strategy is to use scare tactics and deception to make claims about what they will offer you in terms of support, even though they’re never held accountable for any of these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937631\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt='a mural that says \"live life love\" is seen on the side of a building labeled \"alpha pregnancy center\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60260_002_KQED_AlphaPregnancyCenter_11172022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alpha Pregnancy Center, a faith-based anti-abortion center on Mission Street in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco. After months of public pressure, Google Maps recently updated its algorithm so this center no longer appears when a user searches the word ‘abortion.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, Thomsen was part of a successful effort in 2010 to ban anti-abortion centers from advertising on campus. It’s still the only school, to her knowledge, with that restriction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the most insidious tactic, says Thomsen, remains simple geography: By design, religious groups open anti-abortion centers in close proximity to clinics that offer abortion care. In Thomsen’s research on these geographic relationships, she found that more than 99% of clinics that offer abortion care nationwide have an anti-abortion center located close by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any place there’s an abortion clinic, there’s a crisis pregnancy center,” she says. “And that’s very intentional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, say experts: these facilities count on vulnerable people making mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dynamic is especially evident in places like Napa, where anti-abortion activists work blatantly to direct people away from Planned Parenthood and toward the Napa Women’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients get confused,” says Gloria Martinez, senior director of operations for Planned Parenthood Northern California, of the situation at those two facilities. “Especially if it’s their first time with us or visiting that location, and there’s this person out there in scrubs and this person is telling them, ‘Oh, come over here instead.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/napa-council-votes-for-30-foot-buffer-at-planned-parenthood-center-after-years-of-abortion/article_5338519e-c089-5a82-8bcd-562d833ea369.html\">so-called buffer zone\u003c/a> is supposed to render the clinic’s entrance off-limits to protesters, Martinez says local law enforcement seems hesitant to enforce it due to fears “that the opposition will take action against them” with lawsuits that claim the buffer violates their First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presence of protesters is one major reason this Napa location of Planned Parenthood is scheduled to close in 2023 after more than 20 years. It will reopen in a new, larger facility elsewhere in Napa — staff are hesitant to say exactly where, lest anti-abortion activists begin planning protests there as well — in the hopes of a better patient experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the current patient experience, it’s difficult to quantify exactly how many people who intend to visit Planned Parenthood end up at the anti-abortion center next door. But there are indicators. During the twice-yearly campaigns by 40 Days for Life — in which anti-abortion protesters are present in larger numbers for, yes, 40 days — Martinez says the no-show rate for appointments at that Planned Parenthood doubles: It normally hovers at around 19%, but during campaigns, the number “skyrockets to 40, sometimes 50%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937702 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The hand of an older white woman holds a pamphlet describing inaccurate side effects of abortions\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59835_022_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">40 Days for Life volunteer Teresa Conemac holds pamphlets she distributes outside Planned Parenthood in Napa. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just another barrier [for patients], when there are already so many barriers,” says Martinez. “So many of our patients are low-income, or maybe they’re facing a language barrier or a transportation barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then this is another layer that they have to face: harassment. Harassment when seeking health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Targeting communities of color\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even if a person mistakenly visits an anti-abortion center, then eventually finds their way to a clinic that offers abortion care, it’s difficult to overstate the trauma that such an experience can inflict, says Susy Chávez Herrera, communications director for California Latinas for Reproductive Justice in Los Angeles (CLRJ).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be really intense, and it can really hurt a person’s well-being,” says Chávez Herrera. “Whether physically, by delaying a procedure that might be needed for medical reasons, or mentally, because of the toll it takes on folks who are seeking a medical service and met with this series of misinformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be especially true considering the already vulnerable communities targeted by anti-abortion centers, according to advocates: immigrants, first-generation Americans, Black and Latinx people, young people and people from lower-income families living in rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-800x529.jpg\" alt='pamphlets in English and Spanish on a shelf show a Black woman and a Latina woman who are pregnant. The pamphlet is titled \"the first 9 months\"' width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2166-1920x1270.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamphlets available at the Alpha Pregnancy Center in San Francisco. The APC, unlike the majority of anti-abortion centers, has a medical license. \u003ccite>(Emma Silvers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know they target the Latinx community,” says Chávez Herrera. “Just driving down the street here in LA, you see billboards from these groups, with this misinformation, in neighborhoods that we know have largely Latinx communities. And we know these anti-abortion clinics set up shop in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study by The Alliance, a consortium of law organizations and policy groups studying reproductive justice, found that \u003ca href=\"https://alliancestateadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/Alliance-CPC-Study-Designed-to-Deceive.pdf\">some anti-abortion centers try to appeal to Black communities (PDF)\u003c/a> — which already face disproportionate maternal mortality rates — by “blackwashing” their websites or pamphlets, prominently featuring images of Black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Latinx community, advocates say anti-abortion centers prey on fears undocumented immigrants might have about visiting a government-funded health clinic, wary that it could lead to deportation; others note that anti-abortion centers make a point of advertising on Spanish-language radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-800x439.png\" alt=\"a screenshot of a spanish language website of a crisis pregnancy center called real options medical clinics, featuring a woman in scrubs talking to another woman, a patient\" width=\"800\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-800x439.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-1020x560.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-1536x844.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-2048x1125.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.53.34-PM-1920x1055.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the website of Obria Medical Clinics, a network of anti-abortion centers that operates five facilities in the Bay Area, funded partially by federal grants it received under the Trump administration. Obria clinics also advertise that they accept Medi-Cal, which means their clinics receive reimbursements from the taxpayer-funded state program.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Care Net, one of the two biggest national networks of anti-abortion centers, has had \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9189146/\">a programming arm explicitly devoted to outreach in Black and Latinx communities\u003c/a> since 2003, according to a study in the \u003cem>International Journal of Women’s Health\u003c/em>. Initially dubbed the “Urban Initiative,” tactics include advertising on Black Entertainment Television (BET) and “drawing comparisons between abortion and slavery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that they target communities of color,” says Thomsen. “So we also need to be talking about crisis pregnancy centers as something that is impeding racial justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-800x338.png\" alt=\"a Black woman is seen on a website for the Alpha Pregnancy Center, a Christian anti-abortion center \" width=\"800\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-800x338.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-1020x431.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-160x68.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-1536x650.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-2048x866.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-4.51.42-PM-1920x812.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the website of the Alpha Pregnancy Center, an anti-abortion center in San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One small step in the right direction, according to abortion rights advocates, is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2586\">Assembly Bill 2586\u003c/a>, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September as a means of addressing “the reproductive and sexual health inequities that Black, Indigenous and other communities of color face” by issuing grants to community-based organizations that focus on culturally relevant care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The bill’s text included a pointed section about how the “dissemination of misinformation … particularly at the hands of organizations with a demonstrated interest in limiting choice that often misrepresent themselves as health centers, imposes a harmful barrier to reproductive health care access, especially for communities most impacted by a number of other obstacles to care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While abortion-rights advocates applaud the bill — CLRJ endorsed it enthusiastically — some also note that funding legitimate reproductive health organizations does little to directly curtail the impact that anti-abortion centers have in communities of color, the result of decades of groundwork by anti-abortion activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re talking about is an organized campaign of misinformation,” says Chávez Herrera. “And that has been around since well before the repeal [of Roe v. Wade], even in states that are trying to protect abortion rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘God works in mysterious ways’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the street in Napa, as Conemac and a fellow volunteer perform their “sidewalk counseling” next to signs they’ve brought that read “EXPOSE PLANNED PARENTHOOD,” people drive by and honk every few minutes in response. In some cases the honk is followed by a middle finger, or a yelled epithet. They also receive thumbs-up signals, and in one case a shout of “God bless you!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inside the Napa Women’s Center, it’s quiet; the paint and furniture are all soothing beige and pastels. In a room often used to counsel pregnant people, Julie Murillo, executive director of the center, declines to estimate what percentage of the people entering the center are doing so mistakenly, thinking they will be able to access birth control or abortion care. It happens, she says casually, “all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a car with signs that read 'expose planned parenthood' outside a crisis pregnancy center\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59827_012_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car with signs for the organization 40 Days for Life sits outside the Napa Women’s Center, an anti-abortion center opened by faith-based nonprofit Napa Valley Culture of Life. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I tell them that we’re not Planned Parenthood, we’re the Napa Women’s Center, and then I ask them if we can help them on what they need,” she says. She’s seated by a shelf full of English and Spanish brochures with titles like “Life Before Birth,” “What You Need to Know About Abortion Procedures” and one advertising information about “abortion pill reversal” — an experimental hormonal treatment not approved by the FDA, which the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said is potentially dangerous and not supported by science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not here to lie to anybody,” says Murillo. “We are here to try and tell them the truth about what happens to their bodies, and to help them make good decisions for their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937683 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three printed-out signs advertising, among other things, 'abortion pill reversal' in a row of glass panels in a front door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59850_038_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs on the door for the Napa Women’s Center advertise ‘abortion pill reversal’ at the facility in Napa on Nov. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like most anti-abortion centers, the Napa Women’s Center has no medical professionals on staff. But the organization is in the process of recruiting a nurse practitioner; then, the center plans to begin offering ultrasounds, which anti-abortion activists consider a powerful tool in dissuading a person from having an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alpha Pregnancy Center in San Francisco may be an example of what many anti-abortion centers would like to achieve. The facility — which is not located near an abortion care clinic, and which states clearly on its website that it does not offer abortions — \u003ca href=\"https://www.alphapc.org/our-beginnings\">was founded by a group of pastors in 1983. \u003c/a>But the center completed a two-year process to obtain a medical license in 2015, and now has a full-time registered nurse overseeing its medical services, including ultrasounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For certified OB-GYNs like Henneberg, ultrasounds are also, notably, often the first indication that a patient has mistakenly been to an anti-abortion center before landing in a legitimate medical office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll ask me questions like, ‘Do I have to look at the ultrasound?’ And I’ll say, ‘No, of course not.’ And they’ll say, ‘Oh, well, the other place made me look at the ultrasound, and I really don’t wanna see it,’” she says. In some cases, according to several reports, \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2021/10/crisis-pregnancy-centers-ultrasounds-accuracy-stakes/\">an anti-abortion center might perform an ultrasound, then show patients a falsified image of a fetus at a later stage of development\u003c/a> to dissuade them from seeking an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you probe a little, often you’ll hear, ‘Yeah, I went to this place first and they told me not to get [an abortion]. And they’re obviously usually annoyed by that,” says Henneberg. “That’s not why they went there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a gray building with words that say 'free pregnancy tests' and 'Napa Women's Center, health and wellness matter'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59830_014_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Napa Women’s Center, a facility opened by faith-based nonprofit Napa Valley Culture of Life, advertises free pregnancy tests. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Murillo remains adamant that Napa Women’s Center staff are not out to trick anyone. And she says that while the center and 40 Days for Life share the same beliefs about abortion — they are hoping to “help people choose life” — they are separate organizations. (Technically, the two nonprofits do have separate tax ID numbers. But in a video advertising the Napa Women’s Center, Napa Valley Culture of Life president Gerry Cruz details how the center grew directly out of 40 Days for Life’s 2009 campaign in front of Planned Parenthood. Volunteers and staff are on a first-name basis, many belong to the same church, and so on.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In discussing the center’s offerings, Murillo is especially proud of the center’s “baby boutique”: In exchange for watching videos on relationships, fetal development and parenting, visitors can earn points, which can be exchanged for diapers or formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Murillo, she comes from a wine and hospitality background. “God works in mysterious ways,” she says, by way of explaining how she landed in this profession, which amounts to a combination of unlicensed social work and, ostensibly, distributing medical information. “You never know where you’re going to end up, and sometimes you just say yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt tricked’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are encouraging signs, say some abortion-rights advocates, that anti-abortion centers may finally be garnering attention. In June, a group of four Democratic congressmembers including Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4469/text?r=18&s=1\">Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act\u003c/a>, which would have the Federal Trade Commission issue rules regarding deceptive advertising by anti-abortion centers. And the newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-launches-california-reproductive-rights-task-force\">California Reproductive Rights Task Force\u003c/a> lists “enforcing consumer protection laws against deceptive or unlawful conduct concerning reproductive healthcare” as one of its objectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the anti-abortion movement may already be adjusting its strategies in response. Anti-abortion activists have explicitly stated that they view the Dobbs decision as a chance to expand their networks, including opening new centers. The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates has led an effort to help existing anti-abortion centers hire trained nurses and obtain medical licensing — potentially shielding them from lawsuits about false advertising. And some facilities have increasingly touted their so-called baby boutiques, branding themselves primarily as charities, though due to lack of oversight there’s very little data on how much they actually give away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a white woman with short blond and gray hair in a pink suit speaks in front of the Capitol building\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1403119190-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), seen here speaking about abortion rights at a press conference on June 15, 2022, is one of the members of Congress behind the Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act, which would have the Federal Trade Commission issue rules regarding deceptive advertising by anti-abortion centers. \u003ccite>(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, according to the Alliance study, as of a 2021 count, anti-abortion centers outnumbered clinics that offer abortion care nationally by an average ratio of 3 to 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, roughly 170 anti-abortion centers continue to operate — and at least 10 have received state funding through Medi-Cal reimbursements, also according to the Alliance study, which noted that “[i]nvestment of public money in CPCs is escalating, especially in the states, with virtually no government oversight, accountability, or transparency.” An untold number of centers also received both federal and state funds during the pandemic through the Paycheck Protection Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa, as daylight wanes, the 40 Days for Life volunteers pack up their things; Conemac likes to focus on the hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., since that’s when she believes Planned Parenthood pharmacists give out RU-486, otherwise known as the abortion pill. (This location does not perform surgical abortions.) In her place, a group of teenage volunteers from the organization gathers with anti-abortion signs, and stands laughing and talking, flanking the space between the two centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937681 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a row of young teens holds anti-abortion signs on the sidewalk in between a Planned Parenthood and a crisis pregnancy center. From across the street, they seem to be diverse in terms of ethnicity, age., and gender.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS59814_039_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young volunteers for 40 Days for Life stand with anti-abortion signs on the sidewalk between Planned Parenthood and the Napa Women’s Center in Napa on Oct. 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Emma Silvers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of them look to be around 17. That’s the age Lynda Metz was when she first set foot in an anti-abortion center, scared and confused. Some 27 years later, Metz — now a proudly pro-abortion-rights grandmother still living in a conservative area of Arkansas — can’t help but think about her experience. For one, that center is still in operation, and occasionally she has to drive by it. Or she’ll see a sign from a local business announcing they donate to that facility, and she makes a mental note not to shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also makes a point to talk to other young women in her community, and lets them know they have options. However, as Arkansas is now a state where abortion is “completely banned with very limited exceptions,” according to the Guttmacher Institute, those options are severely limited: A person seeking an abortion has to drive \u003ca href=\"https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/arkansas/abortion-statistics\">an average of more than 300 miles one-way to visit a clinic\u003c/a> that offers them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly, when Metz thinks about her experience, it still feels fresh, and she still feels confused. She can place herself in that room, trapped with that woman and the Bible, realizing she was not going to receive any support or information about her health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt tricked,” she says. And nearly three decades later, she says, “I still just don’t understand. It’s not a necessary service. You are literally tricking people into thinking that this is a certified health clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, how is this still legal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a cold day in November 2016, a man with long, blond locks and grungy blue overalls stumbled out of the woods. He had been living up in the mountains above Laytonville, in Mendocino County, and had walked eight hours into town in search of the police. He had found the body of a man he knew, Jeff Settler. And it looked like murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11791257,forum_2010101890551\"]On the other side of the country, in New Jersey, Sam Anderson had just moved back home to live with his parents. The people he grew up with were all buzzing about the lead suspect in a murder thousands of miles away: a kid they’d gone to high school with, Zachary Wuester. Wuester went out to California to make some money working on pot farms. Now it seemed he’d gotten caught up in something his friends back home couldn’t fathom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of [Wuester] being accused of murder was just absolutely insane,” Anderson told California Report host Sasha Khokha. “And I knew that finding out his involvement would be a window into this world: the Emerald Triangle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 411px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11938058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"a logo for a podcast titled 'The Emerald Triangle'\" width=\"411\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crooked City: The Emerald Triangle premiered in November.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three Northern California counties — Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity — make up what is known as the Emerald Triangle. In these mountainous regions, illegal pot farms have flourished. People come from all over to make quick money cultivating and trimming the marijuana. California legalized marijuana in 2016, but black market grows still operate, shipping their product to states where weed is still illegal and the profits are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he read more about the arrest, Anderson became fascinated with the Emerald Triangle and its outlaw culture. He packed up his car and drove out to Mendocino to try to uncover what really happened in the murder case. He showed up in Laytonville, known to be hostile to outsiders, asking questions about the illegal pot growing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over five years, Anderson would befriend local characters, get caught up in some scary situations and learn how to be an investigative journalist. He had to earn the trust of people close to the victim and the accused, all while living and working out of a tent, which became his “office” as he reported. Ultimately, he stumbled upon recordings of the police investigation, which helped crack open the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11938055 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-800x499.jpg\" alt=\"a young white man wearing headphones and a blue t-shirt and jeans smiles as he holds an audio recorder up to a cannabis plant on a farm with blue sky in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-800x499.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-1536x958.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-2048x1278.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-1920x1198.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Anderson recording at a legal cannabis farm in Laytonville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mickey Capper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Listen to Sasha’s interview with Anderson about the reporting process and what it was like to try to break into an insular community, all the while with a microphone in hand. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On the other side of the country, in New Jersey, Sam Anderson had just moved back home to live with his parents. The people he grew up with were all buzzing about the lead suspect in a murder thousands of miles away: a kid they’d gone to high school with, Zachary Wuester. Wuester went out to California to make some money working on pot farms. Now it seemed he’d gotten caught up in something his friends back home couldn’t fathom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of [Wuester] being accused of murder was just absolutely insane,” Anderson told California Report host Sasha Khokha. “And I knew that finding out his involvement would be a window into this world: the Emerald Triangle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 411px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11938058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"a logo for a podcast titled 'The Emerald Triangle'\" width=\"411\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crooked City: The Emerald Triangle premiered in November.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three Northern California counties — Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity — make up what is known as the Emerald Triangle. In these mountainous regions, illegal pot farms have flourished. People come from all over to make quick money cultivating and trimming the marijuana. California legalized marijuana in 2016, but black market grows still operate, shipping their product to states where weed is still illegal and the profits are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he read more about the arrest, Anderson became fascinated with the Emerald Triangle and its outlaw culture. He packed up his car and drove out to Mendocino to try to uncover what really happened in the murder case. He showed up in Laytonville, known to be hostile to outsiders, asking questions about the illegal pot growing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over five years, Anderson would befriend local characters, get caught up in some scary situations and learn how to be an investigative journalist. He had to earn the trust of people close to the victim and the accused, all while living and working out of a tent, which became his “office” as he reported. Ultimately, he stumbled upon recordings of the police investigation, which helped crack open the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11938055 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-800x499.jpg\" alt=\"a young white man wearing headphones and a blue t-shirt and jeans smiles as he holds an audio recorder up to a cannabis plant on a farm with blue sky in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-800x499.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-1536x958.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-2048x1278.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-1920x1198.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Anderson recording at a legal cannabis farm in Laytonville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mickey Capper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Listen to Sasha’s interview with Anderson about the reporting process and what it was like to try to break into an insular community, all the while with a microphone in hand. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 12 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> More rain and snow fell during the weekend in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_07\">storm-battered California\u003c/a>, making travel dangerous and prompting new evacuation orders over flooding concerns along a swollen river near Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bands of thunderstorms with gusty winds started Saturday in the north and spread south, with yet another atmospheric river storm following close behind Sunday, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up to 2 inches of rain was predicted for the saturated Sacramento Valley, where residents of semi-rural Wilton, home to about 5,000 people, were ordered to evacuate as the Cosumnes River continued to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 3 inches of snow and gusty winds were expected in the Sierra Nevada. Interstate 80, a key highway from the San Francisco Bay Area to Lake Tahoe ski resorts, reopened after being closed most of Saturday because of slick roads, snow and whiteout conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Sunday morning that it received 21.5 inches of snow in 24 hours. Its snowpack of about 10 feet was expected to grow several more feet by Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A backcountry avalanche warning was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Lake Tahoe area, through Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol rescued three people whose car slid off a rain-slicked road and ended up teetering at the edge of a cliff in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Friday. The occupants of the car “were scared for their lives and were in disbelief” when they were pulled safely from the car as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CHPSantaCruz/\">the vehicle’s front end hung precariously over the cliff’s edge\u003c/a>, the highway patrol said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot stress this enough. Please ONLY drive if it’s necessary,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to the south in Santa Cruz County, the tiny community of Felton Grove along the San Lorenzo River was under an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swollen Salinas River swamped farmland in Monterey County. To the east, flood warnings were in effect for Merced County in the agricultural Central Valley, where Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Saturday to take stock of problems and warn of still more possible danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not done,” Newsom said. He urged people to be vigilant about safety for a few more days, when the last of a parade of nine atmospheric rivers was expected to move through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, winter storm warnings and advisories were in place for mountain areas, where many roads remained impassable because of mud and rock slides. Two northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Castaic in northern Los Angeles County were closed indefinitely after a hillside collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series of storms has dumped rain and snow on California since late December, cutting power to thousands, swamping roads, unleashing debris flows, and triggering \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_07\">landslides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in the state and ordered federal aid to supplement local recovery efforts in affected areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 19 storm-related deaths have occurred, and a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-natural-disasters-paso-robles-0ed27eb4cf8696fa57d9bf4e170538bc\">5-year-old boy remained missing\u003c/a> after being swept out of his mother’s car by floodwaters in San Luis Obispo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry days are in this week’s forecast for California starting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 6:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Sacramento County’s Office of Emergency Services has issued an evacuation order for the Wilton Area due to an anticipated rise in the Cosumnes River levels. The evacuation orders are an upgrade from the warning earlier and will be in effect from 4:32 p.m. Saturday to 4:32 a.m. Sunday. Areas impacted are within the area of Highway 16 and Grantline West to Highway 99, South to Valensin, and North East to Dillard and Highway 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11938170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-800x622.png\" alt=\"A flood chart showing potential flooding.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-800x622.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-1020x793.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-160x124.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation shelter is located at the Chabolla Center, 600 Chabolla Avenue, Galt, CA 95632. Call 211 for additional information. Report flooded roads by calling 311.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 3 p.m. Saturday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3635-county-outage-information-update-1-10-8-00-pm\">PG&E had 5,258 customers without power\u003c/a> in the nine Bay Area counties, with another 5,326 customers without power in Santa Cruz County. For more information, see PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/\">power outage map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 3:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> The National Weather Service issued a flood watch and wind advisory for the Bay Area that runs from 3 a.m. Saturday through 9 a.m. Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locations prone to tidal flooding in coastal areas will likely see coastal flooding caused by a combination of high tidal cycles, onshore winds, heavy runoff and continued rainfall, the weather service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County today, for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/Portals/0/County/CAO/press%20releases/2023/PR%201.14.23%20South%20County%20evac.pdf\">low-lying areas of Corralitos or Salsipuedes Creeks (PDF)\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=514415440877803&set=pcb.514415770877770\">Rio Del Mar Esplanade\u003c/a>, and the low-lying residences along \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=514376710881676&set=pcb.514378467548167\">Soquel Wharf Road, Soquel Village and 3060 Porter Street\u003c/a>. County officials also said evacuations were underway in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1614366980852842496\">Holohan/East Lake/College, PAJ-E015, E024, E026, E027, E028\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Lorenzo River rose rapidly today, \u003ca href=\"https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mtr&gage=btec1&refresh=true\">reaching major flooding stage by midday before dropping back to moderate flooding stage\u003c/a> by 3 p.m. Emergency evacuations were underway in Felton Grove in Santa Cruz County as water levels rise, county officials said Saturday morning. Shelter sites at Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds remain open, county officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great visit from our federal, state and local officials to survey storm damage throughout Santa Cruz County. Thank you \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJimmyPanetta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJimmyPanetta\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenJohnLaird?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenJohnLaird\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmDawnAddis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmDawnAddis\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmGailPellerin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmGailPellerin\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Bruce_McPherson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Bruce_McPherson\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zachfriend55?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@zachfriend55\u003c/a> as well as \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAStateParksSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CAStateParksSC\u003c/a> for hosting this stop at SeacliffSB. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/ISPLMEtrA8\">pic.twitter.com/ISPLMEtrA8\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Santa Cruz County (@sccounty) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1614102709027901440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, evacuation orders have been issued for low-lying areas of Carmel River, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday in an alert sent out at 1 p.m. The order includes the Carmel River north of Klondike Canyon Road/Carmel Valley Road and south of Rancho San Carlos Road. The order upgraded evacuation warnings to evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation warnings for areas near Las Lomas were also effective immediately until further notice due to the storm, county officials said just after noon Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Highway 1 is closed in Point Reyes between Mesa and Cypress roads, Marin County officials said Saturday morning. PG&E is responding due to power lines that went down, officials said on social media. The closure is expected to last for most of the day. About 851 PG&E customers are affected by the outage, according to officials, who added that residents and the traveling public should avoid the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN\u003cbr>Have you heard about the atmospheric rivers hitting CA but aren't sure what they are? Learn all about atmospheric rivers & how \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NOAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NOAA\u003c/a> researches them in this new web article that explores the causes & impacts of these intense weather events: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Et7NFlvgvz\">https://t.co/Et7NFlvgvz\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/CP1jImsRkJ\">pic.twitter.com/CP1jImsRkJ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NOAA Research (@NOAAResearch) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NOAAResearch/status/1613584352432263169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 2 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Storm-battered California got more wind, rain and snow today, raising flooding concerns, causing power outages and making travel dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bands of rain with gusty winds started in the north and spread south, with more storms expected to follow into early next week, the National Weather Service said, adding “lighter rainfall could continue Sunday with another ramp-up late Sunday into early Monday ahead of a second system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 68,000 utility customers were without electricity by late morning, according to \u003ca href=\"https://poweroutage.us/\">poweroutage.us\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood warnings were issued for the region north of San Francisco Bay, including Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Marin counties.[aside postID=\"news_11936674\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-1-1020x680.jpg\"]A \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/01/13/fairfax-landslide-damages-homes-as-marin-storm-trials-continue/\">landslide in Fairfax, Marin County\u003c/a>, damaged six apartments and displaced 19 residents as the county continued to grapple with the effects of a drenching month, reported the Marin Independent Journal on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slide happened at a complex on Olema Road, sending mud and debris at the residences and in some spots breaking through walls, doors and windows, said Marin County Fire Department Chief Jason Weber in an interview with Marin Independent Journal reporter Alex N. Gecan. No injuries were reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the fact that our soils are completely saturated, we’re going to see quite a bit of land movement around the county,” Weber said. “Those that live on or around hillsides need to be cognizant of this, and make sure that their drainage is working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the south, warnings were posted for parts of counties including San Mateo and Santa Cruz, where the tiny community of Felton Grove along the San Lorenzo River was ordered evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county of Santa Cruz on Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/portals/0/county/CAO/press%20releases/2023/AssistanceRequest.01.13.2023.pdf\">formally requested state and federal assistance (PDF)\u003c/a> through the California Disaster Assistance Act on behalf of the region “to assist with losses and emergency repairs as a result of damages cause by the atmospheric winter storms which began on December 30, 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swollen Salinas River swamped farmland in Monterey County, and to the east, flood warnings were in effect for the San Joaquin Valley community of Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slick roads, snow and whiteout conditions plagued highways through the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Saturday morning that it received 21.3 inches of snow in 24 hours and that its snowpack of about 10 feet was expected to grow several more feet by Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A backcountry \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/\">avalanche warning\u003c/a> was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Lake Tahoe area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5:30 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> California will see another round of stormy weather through the weekend and into next week, in an unwelcome continuation of the atmospheric river pattern that has been soaking the state for the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief respite of dry weather on Thursday, rain — heavy at times — returned to the Bay Area Friday morning, with the possibility of more thunderstorms Friday afternoon and into the evening, particularly in the North Bay, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters say a new, similar cold front is likely to bring more intense rain Saturday morning, raising a new round of flood concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wind advisory has also been issued for the Bay Area for Saturday, from 4 a.m. to noon, with possible gusts of up to 50 mph possible in higher elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, falling debris, downed power lines and downed trees are once again expected to threaten human life throughout the storm’s duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief lull Sunday morning, yet another storm system, this time a warm front, is expected to reach the region by Sunday afternoon, with lighter but more consistent rain expected through Monday, said Eleanor Dhuyvetter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service based in Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know especially with the [49ers] playoff game tomorrow, people might be out and about, so do make sure to be aware of flash-flood warnings and especially be cautious with driving,” she said. “We’ve seen videos of a lot of potholes and sinkholes, which do creep up in areas that have had a lot of water … and that’s a lot of areas right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new wave of precipitation prompted the NWS to issue a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mtr/\">new flood watch\u003c/a> Friday for the entire Bay Area and Central Coast, remaining in effect through Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Bay and Santa Cruz and Monterey counties face the highest risk of flooding, high winds and high surf with waves of 20 to 25 feet during the storm, according to the weather service, as both areas are forecasted to receive between 4 and 6 inches of rain along the coast and at higher elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1613636978066747392\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not out of the woods yet,” Nancy Ward, director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said during a Friday media briefing. “People will become complacent, but the ground is saturated. It is extremely, extremely dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The threat to communities remains and waters will continue to rise even after these storms have passed,” Ward added. She said that the state is still gathering information from local governments about damage suffered so far in the recent storms, but estimated that the price tag for recovery could top $1 billion.\u003cbr>\n.\u003cbr>\nDeanne Criswell, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said during Friday’s briefing that the Biden administration is still reviewing a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare the storms a major disaster, a step that would clear the way for increased federal aid to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">guidance\u003c/a> from the California-Nevada River Forecast Center suggests the Russian River at Guerneville will crest late Sunday morning 1.5 feet above flood level. Nearby streams, including Mark West Creek east of Guerneville, are also at flood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood warnings were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SPRC1&scale=0\">in effect Friday for the Salinas River\u003c/a>, near the city of Salinas, in Monterey County, about 90 miles south of San Francisco. Drone footage from late Thursday shows a levee breaking and the river beginning to overflow its banks. Dhuyvetter said the river remains in a “minor flood stage” and is expected to crest later on Friday, before midnight, then come back down. She said she could not comment on which specific levees might have failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood concerns also continue along Bear Creek, a tributary of the Merced River that flooded earlier this week and inundated the town of Planada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 20,000 acres of farmland in the Salinas Valley, the so-called “salad bowl of the world,” were at risk of flooding, according to NWS reports. As of Friday, some 6,000 people were under evacuation orders throughout California, said Ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/1613961623026139137\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Monterey County’s Department of Emergency Management and the county Sheriff’s Office, flooding is expected on state Highway 68, River Road, Reservation Road, Blanco Road, several secondary roads and possibly state Highway 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders are already in effect for low-lying areas along the Salinas River from north of Highway 68 to the coast. Evacuation order information for Monterey County \u003ca href=\"https://montereyco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=905a9458324b4868804d96b5593eb978\">can be found here\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power outages continue to roil the region due to downed trees and power lines caused by high winds, which have reached hurricane strength in some parts of the state. On Friday, 20,000 households were without power, said Ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since late December, California has been drenched by a relentless string of “atmospheric river” storms, with the normally drought-plagued state averaging more than 9 inches of rainfall a day over the last 18 days — a remarkable amount that has seen some locations meet their average annual rainfall already, said David Lawrence, meteorologist with the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms have also spurred an onslaught of flooding, fallen trees, power outages and debris flows, and resulted in at least 19 storm-related deaths. Half of those have involved motorists, with some of the deaths preventable if drivers had heeded road closure signs, said Sean Duryee, acting commissioner of the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more rain and snow predicted through the weekend and into next week, the state’s Office of Emergency Services said it was preparing resources, including swift-water rescue teams and firefighting personnel, across eight counties in Central and Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Dan Brekke and Emma Silvers, The Associated Press and Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 12 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> More rain and snow fell during the weekend in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_07\">storm-battered California\u003c/a>, making travel dangerous and prompting new evacuation orders over flooding concerns along a swollen river near Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bands of thunderstorms with gusty winds started Saturday in the north and spread south, with yet another atmospheric river storm following close behind Sunday, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up to 2 inches of rain was predicted for the saturated Sacramento Valley, where residents of semi-rural Wilton, home to about 5,000 people, were ordered to evacuate as the Cosumnes River continued to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 3 inches of snow and gusty winds were expected in the Sierra Nevada. Interstate 80, a key highway from the San Francisco Bay Area to Lake Tahoe ski resorts, reopened after being closed most of Saturday because of slick roads, snow and whiteout conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Sunday morning that it received 21.5 inches of snow in 24 hours. Its snowpack of about 10 feet was expected to grow several more feet by Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A backcountry avalanche warning was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Lake Tahoe area, through Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol rescued three people whose car slid off a rain-slicked road and ended up teetering at the edge of a cliff in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Friday. The occupants of the car “were scared for their lives and were in disbelief” when they were pulled safely from the car as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CHPSantaCruz/\">the vehicle’s front end hung precariously over the cliff’s edge\u003c/a>, the highway patrol said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot stress this enough. Please ONLY drive if it’s necessary,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to the south in Santa Cruz County, the tiny community of Felton Grove along the San Lorenzo River was under an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swollen Salinas River swamped farmland in Monterey County. To the east, flood warnings were in effect for Merced County in the agricultural Central Valley, where Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Saturday to take stock of problems and warn of still more possible danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not done,” Newsom said. He urged people to be vigilant about safety for a few more days, when the last of a parade of nine atmospheric rivers was expected to move through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, winter storm warnings and advisories were in place for mountain areas, where many roads remained impassable because of mud and rock slides. Two northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Castaic in northern Los Angeles County were closed indefinitely after a hillside collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series of storms has dumped rain and snow on California since late December, cutting power to thousands, swamping roads, unleashing debris flows, and triggering \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_07\">landslides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in the state and ordered federal aid to supplement local recovery efforts in affected areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 19 storm-related deaths have occurred, and a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-natural-disasters-paso-robles-0ed27eb4cf8696fa57d9bf4e170538bc\">5-year-old boy remained missing\u003c/a> after being swept out of his mother’s car by floodwaters in San Luis Obispo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry days are in this week’s forecast for California starting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 6:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Sacramento County’s Office of Emergency Services has issued an evacuation order for the Wilton Area due to an anticipated rise in the Cosumnes River levels. The evacuation orders are an upgrade from the warning earlier and will be in effect from 4:32 p.m. Saturday to 4:32 a.m. Sunday. Areas impacted are within the area of Highway 16 and Grantline West to Highway 99, South to Valensin, and North East to Dillard and Highway 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11938170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-800x622.png\" alt=\"A flood chart showing potential flooding.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-800x622.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-1020x793.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-160x124.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation shelter is located at the Chabolla Center, 600 Chabolla Avenue, Galt, CA 95632. Call 211 for additional information. Report flooded roads by calling 311.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 3 p.m. Saturday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3635-county-outage-information-update-1-10-8-00-pm\">PG&E had 5,258 customers without power\u003c/a> in the nine Bay Area counties, with another 5,326 customers without power in Santa Cruz County. For more information, see PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/\">power outage map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 3:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> The National Weather Service issued a flood watch and wind advisory for the Bay Area that runs from 3 a.m. Saturday through 9 a.m. Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locations prone to tidal flooding in coastal areas will likely see coastal flooding caused by a combination of high tidal cycles, onshore winds, heavy runoff and continued rainfall, the weather service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County today, for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/Portals/0/County/CAO/press%20releases/2023/PR%201.14.23%20South%20County%20evac.pdf\">low-lying areas of Corralitos or Salsipuedes Creeks (PDF)\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=514415440877803&set=pcb.514415770877770\">Rio Del Mar Esplanade\u003c/a>, and the low-lying residences along \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=514376710881676&set=pcb.514378467548167\">Soquel Wharf Road, Soquel Village and 3060 Porter Street\u003c/a>. County officials also said evacuations were underway in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1614366980852842496\">Holohan/East Lake/College, PAJ-E015, E024, E026, E027, E028\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Lorenzo River rose rapidly today, \u003ca href=\"https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mtr&gage=btec1&refresh=true\">reaching major flooding stage by midday before dropping back to moderate flooding stage\u003c/a> by 3 p.m. Emergency evacuations were underway in Felton Grove in Santa Cruz County as water levels rise, county officials said Saturday morning. Shelter sites at Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds remain open, county officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great visit from our federal, state and local officials to survey storm damage throughout Santa Cruz County. Thank you \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJimmyPanetta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJimmyPanetta\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenJohnLaird?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenJohnLaird\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmDawnAddis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmDawnAddis\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmGailPellerin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmGailPellerin\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Bruce_McPherson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Bruce_McPherson\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zachfriend55?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@zachfriend55\u003c/a> as well as \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAStateParksSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CAStateParksSC\u003c/a> for hosting this stop at SeacliffSB. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/ISPLMEtrA8\">pic.twitter.com/ISPLMEtrA8\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Santa Cruz County (@sccounty) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1614102709027901440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, evacuation orders have been issued for low-lying areas of Carmel River, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday in an alert sent out at 1 p.m. The order includes the Carmel River north of Klondike Canyon Road/Carmel Valley Road and south of Rancho San Carlos Road. The order upgraded evacuation warnings to evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation warnings for areas near Las Lomas were also effective immediately until further notice due to the storm, county officials said just after noon Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Highway 1 is closed in Point Reyes between Mesa and Cypress roads, Marin County officials said Saturday morning. PG&E is responding due to power lines that went down, officials said on social media. The closure is expected to last for most of the day. About 851 PG&E customers are affected by the outage, according to officials, who added that residents and the traveling public should avoid the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN\u003cbr>Have you heard about the atmospheric rivers hitting CA but aren't sure what they are? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/01/13/fairfax-landslide-damages-homes-as-marin-storm-trials-continue/\">landslide in Fairfax, Marin County\u003c/a>, damaged six apartments and displaced 19 residents as the county continued to grapple with the effects of a drenching month, reported the Marin Independent Journal on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slide happened at a complex on Olema Road, sending mud and debris at the residences and in some spots breaking through walls, doors and windows, said Marin County Fire Department Chief Jason Weber in an interview with Marin Independent Journal reporter Alex N. Gecan. No injuries were reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the fact that our soils are completely saturated, we’re going to see quite a bit of land movement around the county,” Weber said. “Those that live on or around hillsides need to be cognizant of this, and make sure that their drainage is working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the south, warnings were posted for parts of counties including San Mateo and Santa Cruz, where the tiny community of Felton Grove along the San Lorenzo River was ordered evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county of Santa Cruz on Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/portals/0/county/CAO/press%20releases/2023/AssistanceRequest.01.13.2023.pdf\">formally requested state and federal assistance (PDF)\u003c/a> through the California Disaster Assistance Act on behalf of the region “to assist with losses and emergency repairs as a result of damages cause by the atmospheric winter storms which began on December 30, 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swollen Salinas River swamped farmland in Monterey County, and to the east, flood warnings were in effect for the San Joaquin Valley community of Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slick roads, snow and whiteout conditions plagued highways through the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Saturday morning that it received 21.3 inches of snow in 24 hours and that its snowpack of about 10 feet was expected to grow several more feet by Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A backcountry \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/\">avalanche warning\u003c/a> was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Lake Tahoe area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5:30 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> California will see another round of stormy weather through the weekend and into next week, in an unwelcome continuation of the atmospheric river pattern that has been soaking the state for the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief respite of dry weather on Thursday, rain — heavy at times — returned to the Bay Area Friday morning, with the possibility of more thunderstorms Friday afternoon and into the evening, particularly in the North Bay, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters say a new, similar cold front is likely to bring more intense rain Saturday morning, raising a new round of flood concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wind advisory has also been issued for the Bay Area for Saturday, from 4 a.m. to noon, with possible gusts of up to 50 mph possible in higher elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, falling debris, downed power lines and downed trees are once again expected to threaten human life throughout the storm’s duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief lull Sunday morning, yet another storm system, this time a warm front, is expected to reach the region by Sunday afternoon, with lighter but more consistent rain expected through Monday, said Eleanor Dhuyvetter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service based in Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know especially with the [49ers] playoff game tomorrow, people might be out and about, so do make sure to be aware of flash-flood warnings and especially be cautious with driving,” she said. “We’ve seen videos of a lot of potholes and sinkholes, which do creep up in areas that have had a lot of water … and that’s a lot of areas right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new wave of precipitation prompted the NWS to issue a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mtr/\">new flood watch\u003c/a> Friday for the entire Bay Area and Central Coast, remaining in effect through Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Bay and Santa Cruz and Monterey counties face the highest risk of flooding, high winds and high surf with waves of 20 to 25 feet during the storm, according to the weather service, as both areas are forecasted to receive between 4 and 6 inches of rain along the coast and at higher elevations.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The suspension “directly undermines Elon Musk’s claim that he intends to run Twitter as a platform dedicated to free speech,” Buzbee wrote. “Harwell was banished without warning, process or explanation, following the publication of his accurate reporting about Musk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CNN said in a statement that “the impulsive and unjustified suspension of a number of reporters, including CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, is concerning but not surprising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twitter’s increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter,” CNN’s statement added. “We have asked Twitter for an explanation, and we will reevaluate our relationship based on that response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. is also reconsidering its involvement with Twitter, according to Dujarric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another suspended journalist, Matt Binder of the technology news outlet Mashable, said he was banned Thursday night immediately after sharing a screenshot that O’Sullivan had posted before his own suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The screenshot showed a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department sent earlier Thursday to multiple media outlets, including The Associated Press, about how it was in touch with Musk’s representatives about the alleged stalking incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not share any location data, as per Twitter’s new terms. 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The photo is framed by shadowy, blurred leaves on the left, and perhaps a roof, a dark, triangle, in the bottom right.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Twitter building in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Late Thursday, Musk briefly joined a Twitter Spaces chat hosted by journalist Katie Notopoulos of BuzzFeed. Musk stood by the suspensions, saying, “You dox, you get suspended, end of story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He abruptly left the conversation, and, a short time later, all of Twitter Spaces went offline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the journalists who had been suspended, and the creator of the ElonJet Twitter account, were on the Spaces chat with Musk despite the suspension of their Twitter accounts due to what appears to be a technical quirk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk later tweeted, “We’re fixing a Legacy Bug,” and said that the service should be up and running again Friday. It remained dormant Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspensions come as Musk makes major changes to content moderation on Twitter. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a swath of federal desert land about an hour’s drive east of Palm Springs, construction workers drive row after row of big metal posts into the desert floor. These posts will soon be topped by thousands of solar panels. When construction is finished, the solar power project at Victory Pass will have a footprint of about 3,000 acres — that’s three times the size of Golden Gate Park. And when it’s connected to California’s energy grid, the facility will generate enough power for more than 130,000 homes, according to Raisa Lee, project developer for San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.clearwayenergygroup.com/\">Clearway Energy\u003c/a>, which is building the project.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11922377,news_11898992,science_995050\"]The green energy boom is accelerating in the deserts of California. It’s a boom that’s been encouraged by the Biden administration, which has streamlined renewable energy development within \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/plans-in-development/california/desert-renewable-energy-conservation-plan\">nearly 11 million acres of federal desert land\u003c/a> in seven California counties. 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When it opens late next year, the energy plant will be the largest solar power and battery storage facility in the state, and buyers for power are already lined up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11935145 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"posts in the ground in the desert are part of the construction process for solar energy farms\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of the construction of industrial-scale solar, desert land is graded and thousands of posts are driven into the ground at Victory Pass. The posts will be topped with solar panel modules moved by motors to track the movement of the sun. Renewable energy companies are attracted to the desert for both the abundance of sunshine and available land. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Woody argues the company’s work is about more than profit: “We’re just doing our small part to help California meet those goals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some environmentalists disagree that such large-scale construction in the desert is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are ways to do this without bulldozing old-growth desert with millennia-old plants, endemic populations of rare organisms, and endangered and threatened species,” said Chris Clarke, associate director of the California Desert Program at the National Parks Conservation Association and the co-host of \u003ca href=\"https://90milesfromneedles.com/\">a podcast about threats to the desert\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other environmentalists, Clarke worries about the habitat of endangered animal life, like the desert tortoise, as thousands of acres of desert land are turned into solar power farms. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The green energy boom is accelerating in the deserts of California. It’s a boom that’s been encouraged by the Biden administration, which has streamlined renewable energy development within \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/plans-in-development/california/desert-renewable-energy-conservation-plan\">nearly 11 million acres of federal desert land\u003c/a> in seven California counties. Many of those projects are industrial-scale solar facilities built by companies like Clearway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the state’s deserts play a growing part in helping to create the green energy revolution, a backlash is also growing among those who argue that desert wilderness is being sacrificed for renewable power goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Woody, vice president at Clearway Energy, says these huge desert solar projects are necessary if California is going to meet its goal of ending dependence on fossil fuels and fighting climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California needs to add about 6 gigawatts a year of these renewable energy and storage projects to meet their clean energy goals, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2045,” said Woody in a recent interview at the company’s Daggett project in San Bernardino County. When it opens late next year, the energy plant will be the largest solar power and battery storage facility in the state, and buyers for power are already lined up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11935145 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"posts in the ground in the desert are part of the construction process for solar energy farms\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/DSCF1912-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of the construction of industrial-scale solar, desert land is graded and thousands of posts are driven into the ground at Victory Pass. 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Renewable energy companies are attracted to the desert for both the abundance of sunshine and available land. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Woody argues the company’s work is about more than profit: “We’re just doing our small part to help California meet those goals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some environmentalists disagree that such large-scale construction in the desert is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are ways to do this without bulldozing old-growth desert with millennia-old plants, endemic populations of rare organisms, and endangered and threatened species,” said Chris Clarke, associate director of the California Desert Program at the National Parks Conservation Association and the co-host of \u003ca href=\"https://90milesfromneedles.com/\">a podcast about threats to the desert\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other environmentalists, Clarke worries about the habitat of endangered animal life, like the desert tortoise, as thousands of acres of desert land are turned into solar power farms. 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