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In March 2019, right-leaning and pro-life websites criticized the Girl Scouts of the USA in response to reports about a member in Southern Arizona who planned to achieve the organization's Gold Award with a project about women's reproductive health. On 5 March, the website LifeNews.com published an article with the headline Girl Scouts Gives Its Highest Award to Teen Who Organized Campaign Promoting Abortion, which continued: The right-leaning website Daily Wire published an article with a headline that similarly claimed Girl Scouts Give Highest Award to Girl Who Organized a Pro-Abortion Campaign. Also, MyGirlScoutCouncil.com, a pro-life website that publishes criticisms and concerns about the iconic civic group, posted to Facebook, describing the controversy as follows: A project to educate people about and destigmatize access to women’s healthcare earns Girl Scouts Gold Award, its highest award. Completing this Girl Scout project for reproductive health justice began by joining the Women’s March. The original source of these outraged responses was a November 2018 article published by the website This is Tucson, which featured a brief interview with Gopalan. The article read:
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