Going mobile is a proven method to reach women contemplating abortion, as many of them have never heard of pregnancy centers or the resources offered there. Stork Mobile Medical Units allow pregnancy resource centers to reach those women with love, compassion, and hope in their moment of need. Our Stork Buses allow pregnancy resource centers…
This article originally appeared on Pregnancy Help News and was written by Jay Hobbs. While his upcoming appearance at a kickball tournament isn’t likely to help Philadelphia Eagles free safety Chris Maragos get ready for the 2017 NFL campaign, he still considers it among the most important things he’ll do this offseason. Maragos, who won a…
In the early days of the pro-life movement, activists used confrontational, sometimes angry, often judgmental, and a seemingly uncaring approach that focused on the baby’s right to life. I’m not at all judging the early pioneers of the pro-life movement because the climate of the 70s and 80s was much different than it is now….
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a very crucial case concerning the First Amendment and a pregnancy center’s right to operate within their values and convictions. This is a big day for the pro-life movement and one of its largest umbrella organizations, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) as we have an…
Before every great idea is birthed, there’s usually a moment or series of moments to point out and say, “That’s it. That’s when my eyes were opened to the need.” For the team at Life Choices, a pregnancy help organization in Kittanning, Pa., those pivotal moments were in 2013. Now, four years later, that idea is…
I’ve always been pro-life. That said, 10 years of working at a pregnancy center has given me a greater resolve and broader perspective concerning the sanctity of human life than I ever had before. The pro-life mission is bigger than rescuing pre-born babies from death by abortion (though we do hope to accomplish this). It’s…
I enter the room quietly, take my seat across from the nervous teen, and gently ask how she is feeling. Her eyes pool. “Not so good. I can’t believe this is happening to me.” Her story unfolds. “Courtney” hasn’t yet finished high school, let alone pursued her field of study and career of choice. Her dreams…
Perhaps I’m just getting old, but reading about the abortion-lobby’s fizzled protest outside of [Atlanta Women’s Care Clinic] had me quoting Ecclesiastes and the words, “there is nothing new under the sun.” Before the scheduled protest, which drew from 3,000 at a downtown Atlanta conference and dropped to 150 when the protestors were asked to walk one…
Intellectual consistency and honesty is very important to me. Unfortunately, however, we live in a clickbait headline-driven world where intellectual consistency and honesty tends to take the backseat. We are seeing this type of faux journalism more and more as our political culture continues to careen into a polarizing heap of nonsense. What is often…
Live Action News—This week, the pregnancy center I work for was met with a protest from NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut activists. The protest against our ‘fake clinic,’ as they call it, was meant to be an ambush, but thankfully we received a warning beforehand. At 4pm on Wednesday, a group of women (one wearing a Planned Parenthood shirt)…
When “Jamie” first caught wind of pro-abortion activists’ “Expose Fake Clinics” crusade, she laughed. After all, the campaign’s assertions that pregnancy centers not only lie to and shame women, but even confiscate their cell phones during appointments, were too absurd for someone like Jamie to take seriously. But soon, it became clear to Jamie that…
Just before Kerri Williams’ last day on staff at Hands of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center in Tucson, Arizona, a woman about her own age came into the center looking for help in the aftermath of aborting her unborn child. After participating in a post-abortion support group, the woman shared that if she’d known about Hands…
The phone rang at Save the Storks’ headquarters last Friday. This call was quite literally one of life and death. A donor of ours informed us of Katy, a friend who was 22 weeks pregnant and whose father had just been put on hospice. Nearing the end of a long battle with pancreatic cancer, his…
This is based on a real woman’s story and was edited by Jenny A. Farrell. I was following my dream. I had worked hard, and my goal of becoming an occupational therapist was within my grasp. In just a year I would have my Master’s Degree. So why did I feel so empty? I was…
From the moment I met Haley, I knew she was special. She came to our center for help with an unplanned pregnancy, and by the look of fear and pain in her eyes, it was evident she was deeply troubled. During the initial interview, Haley readily answered my questions. However, when I inquired about the…
This article originally appeared on Pregnancy Help News and was written by Jay Hobbs. While his upcoming appearance at a kickball tournament isn’t likely to help Philadelphia Eagles free safety Chris Maragos get ready for the 2017 NFL campaign, he still considers it among the most important things he’ll do this offseason. Maragos, who won a…
The following story comes from Your Choice Resource Center in Rocky Mount, NC. I had no idea what I was in for when my parents dropped me off at college last fall. I grew up in a strong Christian home—my dad was an usher at our church and my mom led the women’s ministry. I…
I was unprepared for motherhood. By all appearances most anyone would have suspected I was ready. My pregnancy was no surprise. In fact we had been trying for quite a while to have a child and I wanted so much to be a mother. But I had no idea what was about to happen. I…
This piece was written by Jenny A. Farrell, a nurse on one of our mobile medical units and the author of the book “Ribbon of Redemption.” One afternoon, I picked up the phone at Pregnancy Resources, hearing the words that never fail to make my heart race: “Do you do abortions?” Those words still have…
This piece was reprinted with permission from Pregnancy Help News and was written by Jay Hobbs. For the second time in the past three months, Option Line—a 24/7 pregnancy helpline operated by Heartbeat International—is celebrating a high-water mark, having reached 28,414 women with life-affirming help in the month of March. Far outpacing the previous single-month record…