Arkansas Gave $1.7M+ to Pregnancy Resource Centers in FY 2026

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The State of Arkansas awarded more than $1.7 million to pregnancy resource centers during the 2026 fiscal year, according to the State’s transparency website.

Since 2022, Arkansas law has generally prohibited abortion except to save the life of the mother, and public health data shows that thousands of children are alive today thanks to the state’s many pro-life laws. But women with unplanned pregnancies still need help. That’s why Arkansas has appropriated millions of dollars to charities that support women and families with unplanned pregnancies.

Arkansas’ financial records show the State awarded a total of $1,735,585 in grants to more than three dozen different pregnancy help organizations before the 2026 fiscal year ended on June 30.

Last spring the Arkansas Legislature voted to increase its grant funding for pregnancy help organizations to $3.5 million for the 2027 fiscal year. That means even more grant money could go to organizations that are saving lives in Arkansas between now and next summer.

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Family Council outlined a three-part plan for eliminating abortion:

  • Encourage the Enforcement of Existing Pro-Life Laws
  • Work With Members of the General Assembly to Pass Any Additional Laws Necessary to End Abortion
  • Expand Our Efforts to Assist Pregnancy Help Organizations

Providing publicly funded grants for pregnancy resource centers is a major part of that plan, and we deeply appreciate the Arkansas Legislature and the governor for their commitment to supporting these good organizations.

Arkansas isn’t the only one awarding grants to pro-life charities. A growing number of states provide pregnancy help organizations with public funding, because they give women real options besides abortion.

Below is a list of pregnancy help organizations and the amount of grant funding each received from the State of Arkansas during the 2026 fiscal year.

OrganizationDoing Business AsGrant Funding
ARKANSAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOMES AND FAMARKANSAS BAPTIST CHILDREN & FAMILY$111,824.85
NEW BEGINNINGS PREGNANCY CENTER$96,014.25
OPTIONS A PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INCOPTIONS$77,151.00
HOPEPLACE NEWPORT$76,026.00
ST JOSEPHS HELPERS OF PULASKI COUNTYARKANSAS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$75,000.00
CHANGEPOINT PREGNANCY CARE AND PARENTING$72,343.59
CRADLE THE MATERNITY SUPPORT CENTER OF CKATHLEEN BLOSSOM$72,137.00
INFORMED CHOICES WOMENS CENTER OF THE OZ$70,197.75
ARKANSAS PREGNANCY NETWORK$67,618.02
PLUM PEACE LOVE UNDERSTANDING MERCYPLUM FOUNDATION$67,000.00
CABOT CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTEROPTIONS PREGNANCY CENTER$56,638.50
CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL ARKANCARING HEARTS PREGNANCY CENTER$56,500.00
OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER INC$52,418.00
ACTS OF HOPE INCACTS OF HOPE, PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$51,610.00
MADISON COUNTY HEALTH COALITION INC$51,587.50
HEART TO HEART PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER$45,000.00
CHOICES PREGNANCY RESOURCE CLINIC INC$39,863.38
HOPEPLACE – FORDYCE$38,250.00
COMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD$37,500.00
HOPE OF THE DELTA CENTER$37,500.00
PREGNANCY HELP CENTERPREGNANCY HELP CLINIC$34,900.00
ST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INCCOMMUNITY CLINIC$34,705.50
PATHWAY RESOURCE CENTER$34,596.00
LIFE CHOICES INC$34,398.00
ALPHA PREGNANCY PROBLEM CENTER OF BATESVTHE ALPHA CENTER INC$34,368.49
CRITTENDEN COUNTY CARES$33,900.00
LIFES CHOICE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER$33,270.00
SOUTH ARKANSAS CARING PREGNANCY CENTERHANNAH PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$32,750.00
FORT SMITH CHRISTIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC1ST CHOICE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CENTER$27,783.50
ST BERNARDS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$27,500.00
DISCERNMENT LLC$25,000.00
NEW BEGINNINGS PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF$25,000.00
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$24,812.50
PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST$23,865.00
HOPEPLACE MONTICELLO$17,660.00
CENTRAL BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONBREATH OF LIFE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$15,630.00
CONWAY REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$13,500.00
HOPES FIRST CHOICE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CE$9,766.50
Total$1,735,585.33

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

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Story Underscores How Commercial Surrogacy Hurts Women and Unborn Children

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A recent story from the pro-life group Live Action underscores how commercial surrogacy contracts turn women and unborn children into commodities.

In commercial surrogacy, corporate agencies hire women to carry children for paying customers. But if those customers back out of the contract, they may pressure the surrogate to abort the child. Live Action writes:

Unlike many other countries, the United States has relatively few restrictions on surrogacy — and that’s a problem.

News outlets have reported that a sex offender convicted of crimes involving children was able to obtain a child through surrogacy in Pennsylvania as a result of lax state regulations.

The Daily Wire recently visited several homes in Houston that the State of Texas says are helping Chinese nationals travel to the U.S. on tourist visas “for the sole purpose of giving birth.”

Last year The Wall Street Journal uncovered how Chinese billionaires are taking advantage of America’s surrogacy industry to create what some call “mega-families” with dozens or even hundreds of children.

The Wall Street Journal also has written about allegations of financial fraud among commercial surrogacy businesses.

In December, The New York Times and NBC News both reported about investigations into a surrogacy agency that abruptly shutdown, causing clients to lose an estimated $2 – $5 million total.

The list goes on.

Stories like these underscore why social commentators and policymakers worldwide have raised concerns about commercial surrogacy.

It’s bad when commercial surrogacy goes wrong — but it’s important to remember that surrogacy never “goes right” either.

Commercial surrogacy deliberately deprives children of their biological mothers or fathers.

It treats pregnancy like a “service” that can be purchased, and it treats women like commodities.

Human beings are not products that can be made to order and sold at a profit, but that is what commercial surrogacy does to unborn children. That’s why it’s essential for policymakers to enact real restrictions on commercial surrogacy contracts and agencies.

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

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