There are not many things that are free in this life.
The article for the headline is on one of the websites that I recommend on this site. If you have never visited them, you should; most of them are very informative.
Also known as crisis pregnancy centers, anti-abortion centers look like clinics that offer an array of family health and women’s health services. But they are something entirely different according to the reproductive justice leaders who’ve looked inside the centers and investigated who runs them, and who funds them. They have found that AACs draw people in with a promise of free resources such as pregnancy tests and diapers, but their ulterior motive is to influence decisions about pregnancy, abortion and sex. Advocates say they’re preying on people of color and using taxpayer money to do it.
Almost half of American families (47%) struggled to afford diapers last year, according to The National Diaper Bank Network. But Ashley Underwood, director of Equity Forward, an organization that produces and shares investigative research on human rights, says these resources come at a cost. Recipients usually have to sit through some presentation which often includes a religious component.
“People have to sit through classes, sometimes known as ‘earn while you learn curriculum,’ to be able to basically exchange their time to receive support. (This occurs) particularly when we’re talking about communities of color,” Underwood said. Source
That is also how they are luring many Latinos into the Republican Party, they give money to the small evangelical churches that one sees also in every shopping center where immigrants live.
The patrons who organize these consultation? The conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and their deep-pocketed pals who are continuing to spend millions to help promote free-market ideas in Latino communities across the country. Through the Koch network’s LIBRE Initiative, volunteers and advisers are helping immigrants study for drivers’ license exams so they have some form of government ID, others prepare for citizenship tests and still others earn a G.E.D. And it doesn’t matter if they are here legally or not.
“We do not ask what anybody’s legal status. To us, that’s irrelevant. We want to help people drive. We let the politicians worry about whether someone is documented or not documented,” said Daniel Garza, a longtime Koch lieutenant who manages the network’s work in Spanish-speaking and Latino communities. “Our immigration system is broken. Real people are getting tied up in this,” he said as he awaited a plane in Abilene, Texas, bound for Orlando, Fla. “We want people to become legal as fast as possible and to get on with the business of assimilation.” Source