State of Arkansas Has Awarded $1.6M in Pro-Life Grant Funding for 2025 Budget Cycle

The State of Arkansas has awarded more than $1.6 million in publicly funded grants to pro-life pregnancy help organizations this budget cycle, according to the state’s official transparency website.

The grant funding is part of a $2 million appropriation the Arkansas Legislature approved in 2024. The grants promote maternal wellness and help pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, adoption agencies, and other organizations that provide material support to women with unplanned pregnancies.

Arkansas does not give grant funding to abortionists or their affiliates.

Since 2022, Family Council has worked closely with elected officials in Arkansas to provide publicly funded grants to good, pro-life charities each year.

So far, 33 organizations have received funding during the 2025 budget cycle. That’s something to celebrate!

Pregnancy resource centers and similar organizations give women real options besides abortion. That’s why a growing number of states provide these organizations with public funding.

It’s important to pass laws to prohibit abortion, but we also need to assist women with unplanned pregnancies.

Family Council is working with lawmakers to continue providing grant money to pregnancy help organizations in the 2025-2026 budget cycle.

Below is a list of pregnancy help organizations and the amount of grant funding each has received from the State of Arkansas so far this fiscal year.

OrganizationDoing Business AsGrant Funding
INFORMED CHOICES WOMENS CENTER OF THE OZ$100,000.00
CRITTENDEN COUNTY CARES$50,004.00
PREGNANCY HELP CENTERPREGNANCY HELP CLINIC$50,000.00
OPTIONS A PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INCOPTIONS$50,000.00
HEART TO HEART PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER$50,000.00
ST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INCCOMMUNITY CLINIC$50,000.00
SOUTH ARKANSAS CARING PREGNANCY CENTERHANNAH PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$50,000.00
NEW BEGINNINGS PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF$50,000.00
OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER INC$50,000.00
ST JOSEPHS HELPERS OF PULASKI COUNTYARKANSAS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$50,000.00
NEW BEGINNINGS PREGNANCY CENTER$50,000.00
HOPEPLACE MONTICELLO$50,000.00
ST BERNARDS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$50,000.00
PLUM FOUNDATIONPEACE LOVE UNDERSTANDING MERCY$50,000.00
COMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD$50,000.00
HOPEPLACE – FORDYCE$50,000.00
CHANGEPOINT PREGNANCY CARE AND PARENTING$50,000.00
ARKANSAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOMES AND FAMLIVING WELL COUNSELING$49,980.00
CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL ARKANCARING HEARTS PREGNANCY CENTER$49,957.34
FORT SMITH CHRISTIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC1ST CHOICE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CENTER$49,850.00
HOPE OF THE DELTA CENTER$49,349.04
DISCERNMENT LLC$49,185.00
HOPEPLACE NEWPORT$49,000.00
CRADLE THE MATERNITY SUPPORT CENTER OF CKATHLEEN BLOSSOM$49,000.00
ACTS OF HOPE INCACTS OF HOPE, PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$48,776.00
PATHWAY RESOURCE CENTER$47,660.00
CHOICES PREGNANCY RESOURCE CLINIC INC$45,048.00
LIFES CHOICE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER$44,535.00
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD FAMILY SERVICESCOMPACT FAMILY SERVICES$44,273.00
PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST$43,700.00
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$43,500.00
HOPES FIRST CHOICE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CE$26,415.00
CENTRAL BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONBREATH OF LIFE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$26,249.00
TOTAL$1,616,481.38

Louisiana Grand Jury Indicts New York Doctor for Prescribing Abortion Pills

On Friday the Associated Press reported a Louisiana grand jury indicted a doctor from New York for illegally prescribing abortion drugs in Louisiana.

Louisiana law prohibits abortion, and it generally is illegal to deliver abortion drugs into Louisiana from out of state.

The AP says the case appears to be the first time criminal charges have been filed against a doctor for illegally sending abortion drugs across state lines since Roe‘s reversal in 2022.

Abortion-inducing drugs take the life of an unborn child. They also carry significant health risks for women — including risks of sepsis and death. In some cases, abortion drugs actually can be more dangerous for women than surgical abortion procedures. That is why states like Arkansas have prohibited the delivery of abortion drugs from out of state.

Last year Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued cease-and-desist letters to New York companies advertising abortion pills in Arkansas. The letters alleged the companies were violating Arkansas law. The A.G.’s office reported that the advertisements for abortion pills stopped as a result of their cease-and-desist.

However, NPR reported last year that lawmakers in some pro-abortion states have enacted “shield laws” to protect abortionists who ship abortion drugs across state lines. The shield laws give abortionists immunity from civil or criminal liability and prevent them from being extradited to the state where the abortion drugs were sent.

The AP reports that New York has a shield law protecting abortionists. Louisiana’s grand jury indictment could directly test the law’s constitutionality. That could shape how states like Arkansas enforce pro-life laws in the future.

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