Pregnancy Resource Centers Offer Arkansans Alternatives to Abortion

Recently, stories have appeared that highlight the good work of Arkansas’ pregnancy resource centers.

For example, Mary Kay Palmer, Marla Moore, and other Christians connected with First Baptist Church in Sheridan, Arkansas, opened The Blessings House Pregnancy Support Center.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette writes,

Moore and Palmer, along with a few other volunteers, recently opened the facility at 28 Gates Drive, directly behind First Baptist Church [in Sheridan]. The Blessings House has baby clothes, wipes and diapers, formula and baby food, and also has parenting classes and Bible study lessons and assistance with WIC and GED Registration. It is designed to help new and soon-to-be parents.

“The drive behind it, personally for me, is the feeling that there were mothers out there that were in an unplanned pregnancy and they might not know that they have an option other than abortion,” Palmer said. “And going down that road, exploring those options and seeing what we could do as the hands and feet of Christ.”

Further south in Camden and Magnolia, Hannah Pregnancy Resource Center has begun offering sonograms to abortion-vulnerable women thanks to a donation from the Psalm 139 Project.

Baptist Press reports,

Hannah Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC) celebrated Aug. 17 the placement of a portable ultrasound machine that will be used at its satellite locations in Camden and Magnolia, both about 40 minutes from the center in El Dorado. The machine and the training that accompanies it were made possible by gifts to the Psalm 139 Project, the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s (ERLC) ministry to help place sonogram technology in pro-life pregnancy centers across the country. . . .

The center’s past use of sonogram technology has made a dramatic difference with its clients. More than 96 percent of abortion-minded and abortion-vulnerable women at their centers choose life after viewing an ultrasound image of their child, according to the center.

And back in August we reported that a pregnancy resource center in Morrilton had saved at least three unborn children from abortion so far this year.

Stories like these underscore the good work that Arkansas’ pregnancy resource centers do.

These centers give women real options besides abortion.

Many of them provide everything from ultrasounds and pregnancy tests to maternity clothes and adoption referrals — typically free of charge. They often operate on very tight budgets and rely heavily on volunteers and donations.

Pregnancy resource centers play a vital role in making abortion unthinkable in Arkansas.