Early this year, Garnet investigated Georgia Wellness Group, an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center that received more than $1 million in federal housing funds since 2020. She was tipped off by advocates alarmed at the center’s plans to open a maternity home, evoking a long history of coercive and abusive practices in the U.S. prior to Roe v. Wade.
The commissioners of Gwinnett County granted Georgia Wellness $450,000 in funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development last summer, despite strong objections raised at public meetings, including serious allegations of medical licensing issues and false advertising. Garnet dug into these allegations, revealing a troubling lack of oversight from state regulators. Worst of all, she discovered that the the Biden administration failed to act after one local elected official appealed to its gender policy czar directly.
But this year, Georgia Wellness is not on the list of groups that the county will consider for housing grants. In other words, at least one source of its federal funding has been cut off.
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Garnet and Susan
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