One Florida case shows how little oversight pregnancy centers face, even when they put patients’ health at risk.
about their deceptive tactics have intensified. But there’s been very little scrutiny of how these centers operate under the regulatory radar.set out to understand how pregnancy centers have managed to get away with practices that would get other types of health care providers into trouble with regulators and consumers.
We found that there’s shockingly little oversight of the pregnancy help industry. The vast majority of states don’t require centers that provide medical services to be licensed or inspected. In many states, tanning salons, massage parlors and even pet stores face significantly stricter oversight. But because the vast majority of pregnancy centers don’t charge for their services and aren’t part of hospital systems, they escape those layers of scrutiny, too.
Yet Florida investigators ended up at the Women’s Help Center only after one patient finally came forward, triggering a broader review. Even when the state Department of Health did substantiate those complaints, it did not make the report public. The case came to light only afterOther notable findings fromMost pregnancy centers don’t list a medical director in their publicly available documents.
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