Evidence on crisis pregnancy centers, in one place.
Replacing anecdote with a public record
Crisis pregnancy centers publish extensively to the public through their websites, but that material is scattered, frequently revised, and rarely preserved. ChoiceWatch captures it systematically and time-stamps it, so a claim made today can be compared with the same center’s claims a year ago.
The result is a shared factual basis for scientists, journalists, regulators, and clinicians — one that can be searched, filtered, exported, and cited.
ChoiceWatch is open-access and has no political or moral agenda. Legislators, journalists, scientists, and advocacy organizations have all used it to understand the scope and practices of these centers. The purpose is to make the data available for independent interpretation.
The most comprehensive public assembly of crisis pregnancy center websites
ChoiceWatch rests on a search engine that parses more than three million unique subpages, indexed to the page level and organized by state, affiliation, organization, and mentioned service. The full detail is published: how centers are identified and verified, how each archive is captured, and the exact keywords behind every figure.
- 3,359 Center websites archived
- 0 Total pages indexed
- 50 States covered
- 882 Heartbeat International affiliates
- 223 Care Net affiliates
- 3 Annual archives
Built by medical, public health, and computer scientists
Our research spans big data analysis, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence, producing applications for public health and clinical informatics.
Karan Desai
Karan is a University of Michigan medical student with a background in computer science, consulting, and research. He focuses on using data science and AI to drive innovation in health care.
John W. Ayers
John is a computational epidemiologist who uses digital data, machine learning, and AI to identify public health needs and improve care. His work spans population health to the bedside.
Mark Dredze
Mark is an internationally recognized computer scientist and an authority on data science in health care. His work has unraveled insights across the full breadth of medicine and public health.
Independently funded
ChoiceWatch was funded by Reproductive Health and Freedom Watch, and we are grateful for it. But the people who run ChoiceWatch decide everything about it. Funders have no role in what we collect, how we analyze it, or what we publish. We manage the platform, not them.
