What's an "anti-abortion clinic"? Not a clinic.
I saw way too many "what is an anti-abortion clinic" comments in this thread so here's an article about what those "clinics" are. The tl;dr is that they are not medical clinics, but activist centers that try to cultivate a supportive and medical-adjacent atmosphere to hide their agenda of ensuring that people who might otherwise choose to get an abortion don't follow through.
The "support" they provide are often a pack of diapers and a $100 visa card; maybe a baby shower if it's got some resources. Almost universally, they require some form of religious programming.
In some states, they get money from the government.
ETA: They do not provide medical care. At the very most, they'll have an ultrasound machine to confirm a pregnancy and might offer prenatal vitamins. People will go to them regularly, thinking they're getting medical care. They're not.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolefallert/abortion-bans-crisis-pregnancy-centers
But the college student, then 21, knew what they were saying was bogus.
Garcia had already been pregnant once before and had gotten a medication abortion. Here she was, pregnant again, her own proof that what they were telling her wasn’t true. At the time, she had no way of knowing that she had made an appointment at a crisis pregnancy center (CPC), an organization with the primary mission of turning people away from choosing abortion. (Pro–abortion rights advocates may use the term “CPC,” whereas anti-abortion advocates typically call these sites as “pregnancy care centers.”)
These centers promise free services, including pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, in addition to social resources and products, like baby supplies, typically for low-income people. CPCs provide essentials for pregnant people who may not be able to afford help anywhere else, but research shows these facilities typically only give out supplies and support to those who attend their programming, such as counseling sessions, and are thereby “plugged into the global anti-abortion movement’s sophisticated digital infrastructure,” according to a new study of CPCs in nine states by the Alliance.
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