Pregnancy centers ‘crucial’ to national safety net, provide over $452M to families in 2024

By Tate Miller
The Center Square

Pregnancy centers in 2024 provided over $452 million in goods and services to women and families across the nation, while its client satisfaction rate rose to 98%, according to a new report.

Charlotte Lozier Institute Executive Director Karen Czarnecki told The Center Square that her organization’s report “demonstrates pregnancy centers are crucial to the national safety net.”

Charlotte Lozier Institute is the education and research arm of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and released the report on pregnancy centers this week.

Czarnecki told The Center Square that “pregnancy centers are providing medical care, support and education services, and material goods not only for pregnant women in need, but also their families.”

“Many times, pregnant women lack support, affordable health care, prenatal education or basic materials, but pregnancy centers are there to serve them with minimal (or no) cost and no judgment,” Czarnecki said.

Czarnecki noted that the data in Charlotte Lozier’s report shows that post-Dobbs “more women are seeking the holistic, compassionate care pregnancy centers provide.”

“Pregnancy centers are answering that call,” Czarnecki said.

Indeed, according to a press release, Charlotte Lozier’s report reveals that in 2024, 2,775 pregnancy centers nationwide provided over $452 million in goods and services to mothers and families, while also serving over 1 million new clients and seeing client satisfaction rise to 98%.

Additionally, 8 in 10 centers provide “free or low-cost medical services.”

Czarnecki told The Center Square that “despite ongoing political attacks from abortion advocates, pregnancy centers remain steadfast in their mission to serve pregnant women, and their impact speaks for itself,”

SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told The Center Square that “pregnancy centers are the beating heart of the pro-life movement.”

“They’re heroes in our communities, providing the authentic help women need and want to choose life for their children, in contrast to the profit-driven abortion industry which just hands them deadly abortion drugs and sends them out the door,” Dannenfelser said.

Dannenfelser also told The Center Square about the attacks against pregnancy centers.

For instance, “the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin,” on December 2, Dannenfelser said.

“This is a case in which the New Jersey Attorney General’s office coordinated with abortion giant Planned Parenthood to issue a so-called ‘consumer alert’ against pregnancy centers, smearing them with false accusations,” Dannenfelser said.

“From Elizabeth Warren to Kamala Harris, Democrats have waged a campaign of harassment towards pregnancy centers and seek ultimately to shut them down, proving they are not ‘pro-choice’ but merely pro-abortion,” Dannenfelser said.

“In a time of rising political violence, when 70% of abortion-related threats investigated by the FBI since Dobbs have been against pro-life groups, it’s not just hypocritical – it’s dangerous,” Dannenfelser said.

Other pro-life organizations also recognize the importance of pregnancy centers, with executive director of Priests for Life Janet Morana telling The Center Square that as most pregnancy centers are not simply places with free diapers and formula, but are medical clinics that “are concerned with a mother’s health, the whole picture.”

“They just don’t diagnose her pregnancy or give her an ultrasound,” Morana added. “They also find out what her non-medical needs are – parenting classes, job training, education, housing, help with accessing available resources.”

“The only service an abortion mill provides is the destruction of her baby,” Morana said. “If more women and girls facing unexpected pregnancies knew about pregnancy centers, more of them would choose life.”