continuing the story: Center for Client safety & americans united for life

For over six years, the Center for Client Safety (CCS) has pursued a simple but vital mission: protecting women and saving preborn lives by ensuring that abortion providers are held accountable under the law.

From investigating unsafe abortion facilities and filing regulatory complaints to uncovering patterns of illegal conduct and advocating for stronger enforcement, CCS has focused on one critical truth:

Laws only matter if they are enforced.

Today, we're excited to share an important milestone in that mission. The Center for Client Safety has officially become an affiliate of Americans United for Life (AUL), bringing our organizations into an even closer working relationship.

This new chapter allows us to combine AUL's nationally recognized legal and policy expertise with CCS's investigative and enforcement work, creating a more comprehensive strategy to protect women, defend life, and hold the abortion industry accountable.

What Has Changed?

Administratively, beginning July 1, gifts given through the Center for Client Safety website, including recurring gifts, will be processed through Americans United for Life. If you’re a recurring donor, there is nothing you need to do. Your donation has been securely transferred to the new processor. More details about giving to CCS are below.

What hasn't changed is even more important.

Our mission remains the same. Our commitment to protecting women remains the same. Our determination to hold dangerous and unlawful abortion providers accountable remains the same.

What has changed is our capacity to do even more.

Like many small nonprofit organizations, CCS has historically devoted significant time and energy to administrative responsibilities. By becoming an affiliate of Americans United for Life, many of those responsibilities are now handled by AUL, allowing our investigative team to spend substantially more time where it belongs: in the field, uncovering violations, pursuing accountability, protecting women, and saving preborn lives.

Already, this increased capacity is producing results.

Greater Capacity. Greater Impact.

In recent months, CCS has:

• Investigated a Michigan abortion facility after improperly discarded medical waste was reportedly discovered outside the clinic.

• Opened a new investigation involving a young woman who reportedly experienced multiple violations during her abortion care.

• Identified hundreds of instances of potentially unlawful chemical abortion prescribing.

• Expanded investigative efforts across multiple states to ensure abortion providers comply with existing laws.

Every investigation represents more than a case file. It represents a woman whose experience deserves to be heard. It represents laws that deserve to be enforced. And it represents another opportunity to protect future women and preborn children from devastation.

Looking Ahead

This work is only beginning.

In the months ahead, Americans United for Life and the Center for Client Safety will launch an ambitious national public awareness campaign focused on the risks associated with chemical abortion. This initiative will educate women and the public at large about potential complications. At the same time, it will encourage those who have experienced coercion, inadequate medical care, or other harmful experiences to come forward.

Those reports will help identify potential violations of the law and create new opportunities for investigation and accountability.

AUL will also continue leading the nation in drafting and defending life-affirming laws, educating lawmakers, strengthening pregnancy resource centers, and providing legal leadership on behalf of women and children across America.

Together, our organizations are uniquely positioned to address every stage of the fight for life:

• Drafting and defending good laws.

• Educating policymakers and the public.

• Strengthening pregnancy resource centers.

• Investigating abortion providers.

• Enforcing existing laws.

• Holding the abortion industry accountable.

Because passing laws is only the beginning. Laws mean nothing if they are not enforced.

administrative updates

Your support of the Center for Client Safety over the years has made this exciting new chapter possible. We cannot thank you enough.

As we move forward as an affiliate of Americans United for Life, we're more hopeful than ever about what lies ahead. Before we close, I want to share two important administrative updates.

Beginning July 1, all gifts made through the Center for Client Safety website, including recurring monthly gifts, will be processed through Americans United for Life. If you currently support CCS through recurring giving, there is nothing you need to do. Your recurring gifts have been securely transferred to our new processor.

Most importantly, every gift made through the Center for Client Safety website will continue to support the work of CCS exclusively. While gifts are now processed through Americans United for Life, your designation remains the same, ensuring your support continues to fuel CCS's investigative and enforcement work.

If you support CCS through your IRA, a donor-advised fund, gifts of stock or other appreciated securities, or another investment account, those gifts should now be directed to Americans United for Life.

Please direct these gifts to:

Americans United for Life
1150 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 500
Washington, D.C. 20036

EIN: 36-3906065

If possible, please contact Amy Gehrke at (414) 248-0522 (call or text) to let her know your gift is coming. This helps us properly identify and acknowledge your generous support. If you don’t remember to contact us, don’t worry! We are tracking donors coming from CCS.

Thank you again for believing in this mission.

Together, through this closer partnership between Americans United for Life and the Center for Client Safety, we are building a stronger movement, one that not only defends life in our legislatures and our courts, but also works every day to ensure that women and preborn childreb are protected, the law is upheld, and those who violate it are held accountable.

The best is yet to come.