Category: Pregnancy Help Centers

Study gives emphasis to abundance of care for women and families By Lisa Bourne Pregnancy help centers in the United States served scores of people in need last year, according to a new report, providing hundreds of millions of dollars in essential medical, education and support services – doing so frequently at no charge. The extensive …

By Gayle Irwin Twenty years ago, Pregnancy Care Center (PCC) began offering alternatives to abortion for women in southwestern Missouri.  Today, the organization continues its mission of saving lives and strengthening families through medical services, pregnancy options education, and numerous online and in-person classes, assisting women and men facing unplanned pregnancies. In the beginning The …

By Gayle Irwin  “Stacy” nervously sat in the lobby of a Chicago-area abortion clinic. The wait was longer than she expected, and the more she waited, the more anxious she felt. She started scrolling through her phone, looking for other options, and came across the website for Caring Network Illinois. She made a phone call. …

By Lisa Bourne A North Carolina pregnancy help center got a surprise visit from Lara Trump Tuesday, giving the ministry a refreshing boost in its life-affirming work.  Trump visited the HELP Pregnancy Center in Monroe, NC, toured the center, visiting with a client and her baby, learning more about the work performed by pregnancy help …

By Lisa Bourne Seven of 12 Life Launch Grant recipients have opened their doors for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic, a remarkable feat with the economic climate. Additionally, seven Life Launch centers whose doors had already been opened kept their doors open during the pandemic, bringing this to a total of 14 start-up …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation On a website ironically titled Well + Good, an article has appeared which lauds a new tool which purports to make finding an abortion operation easier. So much for “making abortion rare,” a one-time  common slogan of pro-abortion politicians. The tool being championed by abortion advocates …

By Gayle Irwin “Melinda” came to Care Net Pregnancy Center of Milwaukee in early 2020 with an intention to abort.  “She was early in her pregnancy,” said Rachel Schepp, executive director of the center. “We met with her, gave her options counseling and an ultrasound, encouraged her, and did anything we could to support her.” …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Recently I attended an event that was “very 2020”—a virtual celebration of the work of a local pregnancy resource center. Speaker after speaker during the cyberspace event attested to the tremendous achievements of one of the busiest pro-life pregnancy help centers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. …

By Kim Hayes Beverly Kline founded Living Alternatives in 1982 in Tyler, TX, because a teenage girl who believed she was pregnant needed help.  The longtime pregnancy help ministry director recently stepped aside, ushering in a new era of leadership that will be augmented by her ongoing involvement and support. Kline had discovered back then that the …

By Kim Hayes If you are providing life-saving services to families in need and are not getting taxpayer funding, why not?  Real Alternatives recently celebrated 25 years of serving 322,813 clients through 1,888,825 client visits in Pennsylvania. As the statewide administrator for Pennsylvania’s Pregnancy and Parenting Support Program, Real Alternatives assisted those 300-thousand-plus Pennsylvania residents …

By Laura Roesler  An abortionist’s decision to come to town sparked the dream of providing something better for babies as well as for young men and women in a small Louisiana community. Something better came in the form of a new pregnancy care center, which will have its grand opening soon.  Heartbeat International’s Life Launch …

By Lisa Bourne Four million individuals have received assistance from Option Line, Heartbeat International’s pro-life contact center providing round-the-clock support for women and families in need. This week Heartbeat International’s Option Line, the only fully staffed, 24/7 bilingual pro-life contact center in the United States, hit the major milestone of having served its 4-millionth client with …