Women Love the Help They Get From Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

Pregnancy workers everywhere; be encouraged. Clients in remarkably high numbers are satisfied with the service you provide.

A study released in November by the Charlotte Lozier Institute chronicled the work done by U.S. pregnancy centers and also found that clients’ already quite high satisfaction rate for pregnancy help centers rose even higher. As of 2024, that satisfaction rate among clients in pregnancy centers is 98 percent.

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Since the Dobbs decision came down in 2022, we’ve seen a lot of push back from our opposition, but pregnancy centers have come a long way, baby.

While I am a contributing writer here with Pregnancy Help News, I am also a pregnancy center worker like so many of our readers. I serve as a client services manager at a center in central Pennsylvania. I feel the joys and the defeats of this ministry along with the rest of you.

Depending on the state where you live, the fight to prove yourselves as pregnancy center workers may be crucial just to keep your doors open.

I live in one of the blue, or abortion states. Our governor, Josh Shapiro, seemingly would love to close all of us down at the snap of a finger. He’s taken away funding from Real Alternatives, a program designed to financially fuel various pregnancy centers in the state. He’s opened his own state run pilot pregnancy center offering all of the services we offer on a daily basis – with the addition of abortion referrals.

We’ve had an attorney general set up a website for anonymous clients to complain about us and report us. Thankfully, a subsequent attorney general came to town and removed that slanderous site.

Just when we thought maybe we were out of the woods, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed an amendment  to our state constitution the week before Christmas that would protect women from “interference” with abortions in any way.

And who do you think is their biggest interference?

Pregnancy centers.

There is a bill awaiting approval that will penalize those of us who work in pregnancy centers in Pennsylvania with a $3,000 fine and/or time in jail if we dissuade someone from having an abortion. If any advocate, staffer, or medical employee of a center helps a woman who already has made an appointment with Planned Parenthood to change her mind and continue her pregnancy we would be breaking the law.

Our colleagues in other states are fighting battles, too.

Next door in Ohio, they have seen their share of pro-abortion agendas take over. Their state’s constitution now includes a woman’s right to an abortion, thanks to a voter referendum.

First Choice Pregnancy Center in New Jersey is before the Supreme Court with their state’s attorney general Matthew Platkin who is accusing the center of misleading clients.

And that is just a few. The list of cases like these across the country is long.

However, we must remember there are politicians and other groups out there fighting for us as well. We are so thankful for federal legislators who introduced a bill to protect pregnancy centers against discrimination in 2025.

When we feel like our backs are against the wall, any spark of good news is so comforting.

When my center executive director sent the pregnancy help client 98 percent satisfaction statistic to me in an email, I felt a little burst of cheer well up inside.

THIS is what matters.

Sure, I wish it were 100 percent, but who can complain about 98 percent? Who can argue with 98 percent? We have a better satisfaction rating than Chik-fil-A!

Here is what I want you to know as you face moments where you feel defeated in this work: Every effort matters.

If you ask any of us what motivates us to keep doing this every day, we may say the same thing in some form. It is the women and men who walk into our centers everyday seeking hope.

We certainly care about those babies in and outside of the womb. We care about making sure every flickering heartbeat on our ultrasound screens gets to beat outside his or her momma’s body.

Yet, it’s those women with the uncertainty and nervousness about their situations that make us want to be their advocates.

It doesn’t matter what the nightly news reports or online platforms say about “anti-abortion clinics.” It does not matter what pro-abortion protestors, vandals, and Planned Parenthood say about us.

It doesn’t matter what the Josh Shapiros or Matthew Platkins say about us.

Ninety-eight percent of individuals who have visited a pregnancy center in the United States say, “Thank you.”

Maybe today, as you read this, you had a client choose to terminate her pregnancy. Maybe today a client did not show up again for her appointment. Maybe someone who knows what you do for a living has commented negatively or criticized your efforts. Maybe your state government is dangling legislation over your head that could close your center or even imprison you.

Friend, we keep up the good fight.

Remember, as followers of Jesus Christ our battle is not against flesh and blood. It is against the powers of darkness.

He is fighting this battle with us and for us.

Today I urge you to remember each client whose hand you held, each client who whispered “Thank you” through her tears, and each client whose entire perspective shifted as soon as that image of her child wiggling with life on the ultrasound screen became visible.

Most of the time I feel like statistics are a farce. In this case, I know this satisfaction rating is 100-percent accurate.

Stay in the fight. Don’t dare give up. Pregnancy help is a calling. Those clients and their children need you to be their voice.

And that is also true of the two percent who might not have been satisfied. Whether they realize it or not, you were fighting for them, too.

LifeNews Note: Tabitha Goodling has been writing for media outlets for more than 20 years in her home state of Pennsylvania. She has served as a client services director at her local pregnancy center since 2018. She and her husband are raising four teenage daughters, which include a set of triplets. This column originally appeared at Pregnancy Help News.

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