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By: Chuck Donovan, originally published December 1, 2025, The Washington Stand<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest report on the work of pregnancy care centers is out from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), and it is the most encouraging yet. Titled \u201cPregnancy Centers: Rising to the Occasion with Unwavering Care,\u201d the research concludes that 2,775 of these life-affirming centers provided over $452 million worth of medical care, education, and material support to women, babies, and families in 2024. Medical professionals associated with the centers now number more than 10,000 women and men, and the centers saw more than 1,000,000 new clients for support, care, and counsel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An article published\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0last week lays out more details of the CLI-directed survey, the sixth of its kind published since 2009. The report represents a unique collaboration of pro-life service providers across the United States. Contributors besides CLI include Heartbeat International, CareNet, Focus on the Family\u2019s Option Ultrasound Program, and center coalition leaders in the states. The history of the report is interesting and offers a model for future efforts to protect babies and their mothers in a culturally hostile moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0first pregnancy center report<\/a>\u00a0was published by Family Research Council in the first year of the Obama administration. Its title was \u201cA Passion to Serve, a Vision for Life: Pregnancy Resource Center Service Report 2009.\u201d The report was produced by FRC after a meeting of pregnancy center leaders identified the utility of combining information from their center networks to demonstrate the breadth of their efforts. The report authors were keenly aware of the annual reports released by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), which detailed their total clients and service numbers, including a steadily growing toll of abortions. The PPFA reports consistently yielded sizable numbers, secured thanks to the affiliation structure of PPFA and a uniform reporting system managed by a special affiliate. The pregnancy center movement, in contrast, although it had been in existence for nearly four decades, was more diffuse and had never combined data about its accomplishments, impressive though they proved to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FRC produced the report in the face of significant challenges. The various networks in existence at that time did not generally produce national totals for service reports. FRC staff members, some of whom continued to contribute to later reports, were forced to rely on an array of documents obtained from individual centers and from Internal Revenue Service Forms 990s. The latter contained audited numbers on personnel and finances and service provision but suffered from a lack of detail and varying fiscal year end-dates. The process led to a significant amount of estimation. In turn, this report included valuable historical information on the founding of pregnancy held centers prior to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. Even more important, the 2009 report created a mode of cooperation that has only deepened with each report, bringing in new centers and leading to ever-stronger reports on what now assuredly stands as one of the most effective nonprofit movements in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FRC was also the issuing organization for the\u00a0second national PHC report<\/a>, released in 2011. It was likewise named \u201cA Passion to Serve,\u201d with the subtitle, \u201cHow Pregnancy Centers Empower Women, Help Families, and Strengthen Communities.\u201d The report tabulated the results from 1,969 PHCs for 2010, relying on data from CareNet, Heartbeat International, and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, the three largest U.S. networks. As subsequent reports did with increasing detail, the second edition estimated the public cost savings emerging from the private, free-to-the-client services rendered to PHC patients. The estimate for all services was $108.9 million, with more than two-thirds of the savings due to free patient consultations and free ultrasounds. The total number of people served exceeded 2.3 million. The value of services performed by PHC employees and their 71,000 volunteers, including medical professionals, was calculated based on then-current federal data for social agency employees and other national sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the second edition, a hiatus of several years occurred in the conduct of analyses and release of reports. Then, at mid-decade, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins generously granted permission to the Charlotte Lozier Institute to carry on the PHC report tradition. Rechristened \u201cA Legacy of Life and Love,\u201d the\u00a0third edition<\/a>\u00a0in the series was researched and written by former FRC staff member Moira Gaul, MPH, with new support from statistics expert Mai Bean, a CLI associate scholar. It should be noted that nationally recognized\u00a0scholar<\/a>\u00a0Michael J. New, Ph.D. has contributed enormously to these works, responding to the challenges of synthesizing accurate data across organizational practices. Appearing a decade after \u201cA Passion to Serve,\u201d the third edition \u2014 called \u201cA Half Century of Hope\u201d \u2014 benefited from vastly improved data collection by the national center groups and increasing participation by smaller PHC networks that fill a variety of important roles in the center matrix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report\u2019s findings demonstrated continued progress. All told, 2,600 centers responded via online surveys, allowing calculations that the centers provided nearly 2,000,000 women and youth with free services with an estimated community cost savings of $161 million in 2017. Released in 2018, the report confirmed a pattern of service expansion as the PHCs increased their range, adding post-abortion counseling; sexually transmitted disease testing and, in many instances, treatment; abortion pill reversal; and community referrals for employment training, housing issues and drug treatment. The report also described the lay\/health professional volunteer mix, identifying an estimated 7,500 medical professionals alongside approximately 67,400 volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the third edition, Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research and education arm of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America,\u00a0has maintained a schedule<\/a>\u00a0of releasing reports roughly every two years. They include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n