Posted on 10/27/2025 10:57:44 PM PDT by Morgana
Pregnancy resource centers across the country are expanding into full-service medical clinics to help mothers in need — and pro-abortion activists are responding with criticism.
According to an Associated Press report, hundreds of pro-life centers — which are long known for offering free ultrasounds, baby supplies, and counseling to women in crisis — are adding services such as testing for sexually transmitted diseases, primary care, and prenatal treatment.
The growth follows the Trump administration’s decision to cut Medicaid funding to abortion providers under the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which blocks federal funding for one year. As CatholicVote previously reported, Planned Parenthood projected that the cuts could lead to the closure of 200 of its facilities.
Heather Lawless, founder of the pro-life Reliance Center in Lewiston, Idaho, said her organization “ultimately want[s] to replace Planned Parenthood with the services we offer,” according to AP News. She added that about 40% of the center’s patients now visit for non-pregnancy-related care, such as using its nurse practitioner as a primary provider.
Moira Gaul of the Charlotte Lozier Institute said the pro-life centers “are prepared to serve their communities for the long term,” the outlet reported.
In Sacramento, California, Alternatives Pregnancy Center (APC) has added family doctors, a radiologist, and even a high-risk pregnancy specialist, AP News reported. One patient, Jessica Rose, 31, said APC supported her through her decision to detransition after spending seven years attempting to live as a man, during which she received cross-sex hormones and a double mastectomy.
“APC provided me a space that aligned with my beliefs as well as seeing me as a woman,” Rose told AP.
She said other clinics “were trying to make me think that detransitioning wasn’t what I wanted to do.”
Pro-abortion activists have criticized the expansion, arguing that pro-life centers lack oversight and perform limited ultrasounds that cannot detect fetal abnormalities due to limited training, according to AP News. They also object to the centers’ refusal to provide birth control and their use of what they call “unproven” abortion-pill reversal treatments.
CatholicVote has reported that abortion pill reversal treatments are effective in many cases. A 2018 peer-reviewed study found the treatment is effective in 64%-68% of cases and did not increase the likelihood of birth defects, and the Abortion Pill Rescue Network says it has saved thousands of babies since its founding in 2008.
Jennifer McKenna, a senior adviser for the pro-abortion Reproductive Health and Freedom Watch, questioned whether the pregnancy center industry has “the clinical infrastructure to provide the medical services it’s currently advertising,” the outlet reported.
In Louisiana, where Planned Parenthood closed its clinics in September, Abortion in America founder Kaitlyn Joshua reportedly said she fears women won’t receive adequate care at pro-life centers.
“Those centers should be regulated. They should be providing information which is accurate,” she said, “rather than just getting a sermon that they didn’t ask for.”
Pro-life leaders have pushed back, saying the criticism is motivated by politics rather than concern for women’s health. Thomas Glessner, president of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, which supports 1,800 centers nationwide, reportedly said the attacks stem “from a political agenda.”
According to AP News, Choices Medical Services in Joplin, Missouri — which does not provide or refer for abortions but offers “factual, unbiased information” on all options — helped a woman who worked at a strip club receive testing for sexually transmitted infections and later choose life after learning she was pregnant.
Hayley Kelly first met Choices volunteers in 2019 when they brought weekly dinners to dancers at the strip club where she worked. In 2023, while struggling with drugs, she turned to the clinic to confirm a pregnancy. Though she initially considered abortion, Kelly said the staff answered her questions and guided her through her pregnancy. Kelly chose life for that baby, and later, another.
“It’s an amazing place,” Kelly said. “I tell everybody I know, ‘You can go there.’”
Pro-life pregnancy centers have garnered increasing state support in recent years. AP News reported that nearly 20 states now direct millions in funding to these pro-life centers to assist women in crisis; Texas allocated $70 million to pregnancy centers this fiscal year, while Florida dedicated more than $29 million to its “Pregnancy Support Services Program.”
There is at least one Dem candidate in Va that is running an ad criticizing her opponent for supporting crisis pregnancy centers. Saying, “they prevent women from receiving ‘essential’ medical care.”
Such is life, be it good, indifferent or bad. Every
one has to make them and do so as they are taught or
as they believe. To a degree they can make them as
opposed to being forced into the choice.
The bloodlust of the left is insatiable.
They do NOT know how to not kill or destroy.
Just like hamas.
When Planned Parenthood started out, that was their purpose...to help women with their pregnancy and babies. I went there to get tested for pregnancy and I appreciated the help because I didn’t have the money to pay for a doctor and the test. Who remembers “The rabbit died” saying??
Butchering babies and leaving mothers to deal with the medical problems of their abortion on their own isn't exactly *medical services*.
It's murder for hire.
The whole point is to ban opposition speech. Get as many children killed and protect themselves.
I remember the rabbit dying days.
But by the time I got pregnant, it was an in office test that gave quick results.
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