By Sarah Holliday

In its 2025 National Pregnancy Center Report, the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), the research arm of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, found some encouraging statistics. In 2024, pregnancy centers served over one million new clients. At least 2,775 centers were able to provide $452 million worth of services and material goods, including total medical care, support and education services, baby clothes, diapers, wipes, infant formula, strollers, car seats, and cribs. The value of these goods rose to over $116 million, which marks a 48% increase from 2022.

The medical procedures offered included ultrasounds and STD/STI testing and treatment. “In 2024,” CLI noted, “29% of pregnancy centers provided Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) as a service and 77% provided post-abortion support.” Overall, “client satisfaction rose to 98%.”

These affordable/free services bore fruit — there was a 16% increase from 2022 to 2024 of pregnant women who had ultrasounds, as well as an 18% increase in those who tested for sexually transmitted diseases and infections. A whopping 397,616 clients received prenatal and parenting education programs, 24,363 received post-abortion support, and 685,183 youth attended group sexual risk avoidance education presentations. CLI found, in 2024, 65,613 total workers came together to make these statistics what they are — 72% doing so on a voluntary basis.

Meanwhile, the abortion giant, Planned Parenthood, has seen a significant decline in their in-person patients and non-abortion services. According to a CLI fact sheet analyzing Planned Parenthood’s 2023-24 Annual Report, since 2013, its “total services are down more than 10%. With changing practice guidelines, total cancer screening and prevention services have dropped by 54%, including declines of 61% for breast exams and 54% for pap tests. Prenatal services are down 63%,” and “contraceptive services are down 38%.” Planned Parenthood also saw a 23% drop in patient visits since 2013. And due to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the giant lost its Medicaid funding, resulting in the closure of at least 50 businesses.

Yet, here’s where the picture darkens for pro-lifers. Even with the brick-and-mortar side of Planned Parenthood dwindling, its chemical abortion business is exploding. The latest annual report shows how abortion pill distributions have surged to record levels, fueled mostly by mail-order pills shipped in plain envelopes with no in-person exam, no ultrasound, and no follow-up care required due to loosened Biden-era FDA rules. Pro-life physicians and researchers have documented thousands of serious complications for women who have gone through with chemical abortion, which include severe hemorrhaging, sepsis, or worse. Still, the abortion industry markets these pills as “safer than Tylenol” and “self-managed health care.”

Proponents of the drug often tell women the process will be like a “heavy period,” only many of these same women find themselves alone in their bathrooms passing a fully formed six- to 10-week-old baby — many of whom later report intense pain and regret. Thousands have called pregnancy center hotlines in the slim 72-hour window after taking mifepristone, asking for help. And as it turns out, the Abortion Pill Reversal protocol has saved many of those babies who are alive and well today, including nurse Jessica Williams’s little girl, who is now three years old after a center helped reverse the chemical abortion that would have ended her life in 2022.

This appears to be the new front line of the abortion battle: a billion-dollar industry pushing pills through the mail while pro-life centers race to offer real medical care, accurate information, and life-saving alternatives. As pro-lifers have warned, every box of mifepristone shipped without oversight is a threat to not just one life, but two — the baby and the mother.

“Despite the very real threat of abortion drugs, especially by mail-order, pregnancy centers are the physical manifestation of hope the pro-life movement has for women who may be struggling with an unplanned pregnancy,” CLI Executive Director Karen Czarnecki told The Washington Stand. “Charlotte Lozier Institute’s new pregnancy center report shows more women, men, and children are turning to these centers for medical care, support and education, and essential material assistance.” All the while, she added, “Planned Parenthood, and the abortion industry in general, is trying to sell women on the idea that mailing abortion drugs in unmarked containers without any medical supervision is ‘quality health care.’ That couldn’t be further from the truth.”

Kelsey Pritchard, SBA Pro-Life’s communications director, explained the importance of taking advantage of the current moment in which Democrats, who are staunchly pro-abortion, are not in power. If they were “allowed back in power,” she warned, “it is a certainty that they would turn the spigot of taxpayer-funded abortion on demand back on.” That is why her organization is already investing $80 million to reach 10.5 million voters before the 2026 midterms — because, as she argued, lasting protection for women and children requires a pro-life House, Senate, and White House willing “to make it permanent law across the whole government that taxpayers are never forced to fund abortion or abortion businesses.”

As Pritchard noted, “Planned Parenthood’s bloated business model depends on taxpayer funding for nearly 40% of its revenue. As states like California and New York jump in to try to bail out their failing organization, we also hope to see more states act on their right to keep abortion out of their state Medicaid programs, as upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this year. Oklahoma and Nebraska have joined South Carolina so far in declaring ‘not a penny’ of their tax dollars will fund abortion.”

And so, threats to the pro-life movement remain. However, as Czarnecki concluded, “Pregnancy centers are walking alongside women, men, and families to provide love, education, and support so they can courageously choose life.”

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.