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

House Education Committee Backs Bill Bringing Ultrasound Images into Arkansas Classrooms

Above: Rep. Bentley presents H.B. 1180 in the Arkansas House Education Committee on February 4, 2025.

On Tuesday the House Education Committee passed H.B. 1180 to create the “Baby Olivia Act” in Arkansas.

This good bill by Rep. Mary Bentley (R — Perryville) and Sen. Clint Penzo (R — Springdale) ensures public schools show students a recording of a high-definition ultrasound video that is at least three minutes long as part of sex-education and human growth and development education courses.

The bill also ensures students see Live Action’s computer-animated “Meet Baby Olivia” video that teaches about human development from conception to birth.

In the past 50 years, improvements in medical science have made it clear that unborn children are distinct, living, human individuals. Ultrasound images help clearly demonstrate that.

Research indicates that some women are less likely to have an abortion if they see an ultrasound image of their unborn child. Very few medical advancements have done more to change hearts and minds on abortion than ultrasound technology.

H.B. 1180 will help ensure public school students learn about human development by watching a recording of an ultrasound video and the “Meet Baby Olivia” video in a classroom setting and in an age-appropriate manner.

H.B. 1180 now goes to the entire Arkansas House of Representatives for consideration.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.