Every community has charitable nonprofit organizations that help people navigate difficult situations. Some of those local, compassionate outreaches, however, are being bullied.
An unintended pregnancy is an unexpected battleground across the United States. Every woman should be loved and supported in her pregnancy. Compassionate help dedicated to encouraging women with unplanned pregnancies to say yes to their babies is not something that should be controversial.
Nor should such altruistic help be the target of the bullies of Big Abortion and its axis of political powerhouses and angry activists. Yet here we are with pro-abortion state attorneys general willing to expend untold sums of taxpayer dollars to pursue unfounded legal actions that threaten, deride, and intend to diminish the life-affirming work of local pregnancy help centers. The same lawfare so common in recent nationwide, even global, headlines is also being deployed against these small nonprofits merely out to help women choose life.
This follows on the heels of a season of vicious vandalism by radical pro-abortion activists who perpetrated over 100 attacks on pregnancy help locations following the leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. After the official opinion was filed overturning the so-called right to abortion invented in Roe v. Wade, the attacks intensified. More than a half dozen of these attacks included acts of fire-bombing arsonists. Suddenly, these small nonprofits were faced with massive increases in security costs to protect their right to help women free of charge.
Big Abortion’s paid-for politicians are in on the act as well. One can only assume that several bills designed to use the Goliath power of the state against the David that is pregnancy help were crafted by lawyers employed by Big Abortion’s massive litigation teams. Instead of helping women overcome temporary challenges, some politicians moved to protect abortion and abortionists. This included efforts to curtail, if not demonize, the caring services offered by pregnancy help centers.
Lawmakers bent on bullying pregnancy centers would do well to remember the foundations of our nation’s tax code. In its early language, one of the examples given for charitable contributions involved the collective efforts toward the “prevention of cruelty to children.” What is abortion if not the ultimate cruelty against the smallest children among us?
Yet Big Abortion’s voracious full-time government lobbyists can be counted by the dozens, maybe the hundreds, as they ply the halls of power to enrich the abortion industrial complex. These lackeys for the culture of death have secured hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds for the nation’s largest purveyor of abortion, Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile there are no such lobbyists to counter the abortion profiteer’s protection racket.
Pregnancy centers are called to help women, families, and their babies. They weren’t called to the rough and tumble politics funded and fueled by Big Abortion’s demands for abortion anywhere, anytime, and paid for by the American taxpayer.
This is why the “Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act of 2025” is so necessary. Legislation against bullying small nonprofits shouldn’t be necessary, but it is. The American people’s ingenuity is to create self-reliant communities that seek to solve neighborhood needs in a neighborly way. The government should only help, not hinder grassroots altruism.
This bill will help every woman be loved and supported during her unexpected pregnancy. In a commonsense world, helping women have an alternative to abortion should be celebrated and supported by everyone. No woman should be coerced into an abortion decision she doesn’t really want.
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Everyone should want to let pregnancy centers serve the women in their communities. Pregnancy centers have been supporting women for more than five decades now. They are desperately needed for this new post-Roe environment in both pro-abortion states and pro-life states.
After all, pregnancy help centers are a collective of compassionate community members. They aren’t vertically integrated soulless entities preying on women’s fears like the abortion industry. Instead, they give of themselves for the good of others and the value of life. Rather than a battleground, an unexpected pregnancy should be a genuine moment to help overcome obstacles, envision the future, and cherish mother and baby.
Jor-El Godsey is president of Heartbeat International.