Arkansas Awards $1.9M+ to Pregnancy Help Organizations for 2025 Budget Cycle

The State of Arkansas has awarded more than $1.9 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 with the Arkansas Legislature and the governor to secure funding every year for pregnancy resource centers. These state-funded grants have helped support dozens of charities that assist women and children in Arkansas.

Arkansas’ fiscal year ends on June 30. To date, 35 organizations have received funding this 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.

This year Family Council was pleased to work with lawmakers to secure another $2 million in grant money for pregnancy help organizations in the state’s upcoming 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$128,474.43
HEART TO HEART PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER$81,321.88
OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER INC$81,321.00
ARKANSAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOMES AND FAMLIVING WELL COUNSELING$81,301.88
CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL ARKANCARING HEARTS PREGNANCY CENTER$81,209.26
PATHWAY RESOURCE CENTER$78,981.88
LIFES CHOICE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER$75,856.88
CRITTENDEN COUNTY CARES$50,004.00
HOPEPLACE MONTICELLO$50,000.00
HOPEPLACE – FORDYCE$50,000.00
PREGNANCY HELP CENTERPREGNANCY HELP CLINIC$50,000.00
CHANGEPOINT PREGNANCY CARE AND PARENTING$50,000.00
ST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INCCOMMUNITY CLINIC$50,000.00
OPTIONS A PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INCOPTIONS$50,000.00
NEW BEGINNINGS PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF$50,000.00
PLUM FOUNDATIONPEACE LOVE UNDERSTANDING MERCY$50,000.00
NEW BEGINNINGS PREGNANCY CENTER$50,000.00
COMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD$50,000.00
ST BERNARDS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$50,000.00
SOUTH ARKANSAS CARING PREGNANCY CENTERHANNAH PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$50,000.00
ST JOSEPHS HELPERS OF PULASKI COUNTYARKANSAS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$50,000.00
ABUNDANT LIFE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$49,876.00
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
CRADLE THE MATERNITY SUPPORT CENTER OF CKATHLEEN BLOSSOM$49,000.00
HOPEPLACE NEWPORT$49,000.00
ACTS OF HOPE INCACTS OF HOPE, PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$48,776.00
CHOICES PREGNANCY RESOURCE CLINIC INC$45,048.00
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
ARKANSAS PREGNANCY NETWORK$20,423.82
Total$1,903,116.07

Arkansas’ 2025 Legislative Session Adjourns

On Monday the Arkansas House and Senate met to tie up loose ends and officially adjourn the 2025 legislative session.

Lawmakers passed several excellent bills this year. You can learn more about those new laws by downloading our 2025 General Assembly Report here.

You can also read our May edition of the Arkansas Citizen for a brief recap of the session’s highlights.

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

Planned Parenthood PAC Files Activity Report, Opposes Good Legislation in Arkansas

Earlier this month, Planned Parenthood’s political action committee for Arkansas filed a report with the secretary of state showing the organization did not spend any money campaigning in Arkansas from January through March of this year.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortionist. In 2024, the organization endorsed two candidates running for the Arkansas House of Representatives. In 2020, Planned Parenthood Federation announced it would spend at least $45 million working to unseat pro-life lawmakers and elect candidates who support abortion. As part of that plan, the group used its political action committee (PAC) to support candidates for state and federal office in Arkansas.

With that said, Planned Parenthood’s Arkansas PAC spent no money campaigning in Arkansas during the first quarter of 2025. However, the organization did actively oppose good bills at the legislature.

In a document published online, Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes Arkansas made statements against S.B. 444 and H.B. 1678 — two bills Family Council strongly supported.

S.B. 444 by Sen. Kim Hammer (R — Benton) and Rep. Lee Johnson (R — Greenwood) is a good law that strengthens the healthcare workers’ rights of conscience law Arkansas passed in 2021.

Among other things, this law adds whistleblower protections for healthcare workers, and it helps protect all medical professionals from having their rights of conscience violated.

S.B. 444 passed with strong support at the Arkansas Legislature and has been signed into law as Act 970 of 2025.

H.B. 1678 is a good bill by Rep. Wayne Long (R — Bradford) and Sen. John Payton (R — Wilburn) that would strengthen Arkansas’ Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act.

The bill would have increased the penalty for selling or prescribing illegal abortion-inducing drugs, and it would have made it easier to take a person to court for violating the Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act.

All of this would have provided additional options for enforcing Arkansas’ pro-life laws.

H.B. 1678 did not come up for a vote at the legislature, but lawmakers did refer it for interim study — meaning the legislature will have opportunities to meet and discuss the bill, but will not vote on it.

On the whole, Arkansas’ lawmakers are very pro-life, and Planned Parenthood’s opposition did not stop legislators from passing S.B. 444 or choosing to continue discussions on H.B. 1678.

Planned Parenthood’s PAC has a little over $11,500 at its disposal for the 2026 election cycle. Time will tell what role the organization might play in Arkansas in the coming months.

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