Talking Points

Topline Messaging: Women deserve to feel supported and empowered in their decisions. That’s why offering compassionate care and practical help is essential for true reproductive freedom.

The Misleading Nature of "Reproductive Freedom":

• While the term sounds empowering, it is used to push for abortion as the primary solution. This amounts to freedom from reproduction only, dismissing life-affirming options for reproduction that genuinely support women and families.

True Empowerment is Life-Affirming Support:

• Women deserve real choices to their challenges and not just a permanent solution (abortion) to a temporary condition (pregnancy). She needs help with her environmental obstacles and accessible resources and support to carry a pregnancy to term. Pregnancy help organizations provide free, compassionate care—consulting, education, and material aid—that empowers women to confidently choose life.

Filling the Gap Left by the Abortion Agenda:

• Many women seek abortions out of fear of the unknown, active coercion, financial pressure, or seeming lack of obvious support. Our life-affirming approach addresses these root issues, offering hope and practical help at no cost rather than leading women toward abortion.

“Reproductive Freedom” Should Include the Freedom to Choose Life:

• Real reproductive freedom must include the ability to reproduce, not just to thwart reproduction through abortion. Our work ensures women have the support and information they need to embrace life for themselves and their babies.

Highlighting Positive Outcomes:

• When support and encouragement are accessible, women overwhelmingly choose life. Our services help families thrive by providing the care and resources they need—at no cost—creating healthier, happier communities.

Topline Messaging: 

Pregnancy help organizations deliver genuine healthcare and holistic pregnancy support for women. Our comprehensive care focuses on the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of both mother and baby, offering resources that truly empower women in their decisions.

Life-Affirming Medical Care:

• Pregnancy help medical clinics provide essential healthcare services performed by licensed and credentialed healthcare professionals. These can include pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, STD testing and treatment, prenatal education, and referrals to trusted medical providers. Our clinics and medical staff ensure every woman receives compassionate, professional life-affirming care.

Abortion is Not Healthcare:

• Healthcare seeks to preserve and protect life. Abortion, on the other hand, is the deliberate termination of a child’s life, often inflicting physical and emotional harm on the mother. True healthcare should seek healing and support, not destruction.

Holistic Support that Heals:

• Unlike the one-size-fits-all approach of abortion facilities, pregnancy help organizations address the root causes behind a woman’s challenges, offering medical care, material aid, counseling, and support throughout pregnancy and beyond. This approach prioritizes the well-being of both mother and child.
  
  
• Women commonly report that they would not have chosen abortion had they not felt coerced or alone in their pregnancies. Pregnancy centers offer the very support that women choosing abortion report is missing in their lives.
  
  
• Most abortions are completely elective – an attempted medical remedy to a nonmedical problem (finances, relationship troubles, poor timing). To focus exclusively on medical services ignores the other factors that women consider critical in their lives. Pregnancy centers address medical needs alongside women’s practical, relational and spiritual needs in a holistic, woman-focused fashion.

Filling Gaps Left by Big Abortion:

• Abortion businesses are profit-driven and often disregard the health consequences for women. Pregnancy centers step in to offer a broad spectrum of life-affirming services, all at no cost, ensuring women receive comprehensive care without the pressure of choosing abortion.

Healthcare that Honors Life:

• Our services are grounded in the belief that every life is valuable. The healthcare we provide is built on a foundation of compassion and respect for both mother and child, ensuring women have the resources, information, and support they need to make informed, empowered decisions.

Talking Points:

• Claims of limits on abortion within the amendment are misleading.
  These so-called restrictions include broad exceptions for “health” that make abortion available on demand up until birth. True limits should protect both the woman and her preborn child without creating loopholes for abuse.
  
  
• The term "health" is exploited to justify late-term abortions up to birth.
  Legal definitions for ‘health’ go far beyond physical health to be so broad as to allow abortionists the discretion to perform abortions even when the child could survive outside the womb. Such “limits” are deceptive and effectively eliminate protections for preborn babies by allowing abortions for nearly any reason.
  
  
• True care empowers women to embrace life.
  Pro-abortion language exploits vague “health” exceptions to promote abortion services, which leaves women without life-affirming alternatives and solutions. In contrast, pregnancy help centers, often led by women, provide compassionate care that addresses the root challenges—offering support, resources, and education. This kind of holistic care allows women to navigate difficult circumstances with dignity, empowering them to choose life instead of feeling cornered into a permanent decision like abortion.

Background:
Pro-Abortion Messaging: Advocates suggest that abortions may be prohibited after fetal viability but include loopholes by allowing it if "necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health," where "health" is broadly defined to encompass emotional, psychological, and financial factors.

Talking Points:

 

• Health and safety standards are vital for women’s protection.
  Dismissing sensible safeguards as “burdens” is a dangerous strategy that leaves women vulnerable to substandard care, prioritizing abortion access over patient safety.
  
  

• Women deserve safety, not ideology.
  Health and safety standards ensure that women receive care that prioritizes their well-being, especially in critical moments. The majority of those who advocate for life understand that patient safety is non-negotiable. That’s why medical professionals and advocates push for regulations that safeguard women’s health—unlike abortion advocates who dismiss these protections under the guise of “freedom.” True care means supporting women with safety, transparency, and respect, rather than exposing them to unnecessary risks.
  
  

 

• Health and safety standards are crucial safeguards for women.
  Under vague "reproductive freedom" amendments, common-sense measures like requiring doctors to explain risks or ensure hospital access during emergencies could be dismissed as "burdens." Eliminating these standards exposes women to unsafe procedures and reduces accountability for abortion providers.

Background:
Pro-Abortion Messaging: Restrictions on abortion providers, like transfer agreements, hospital privileges, or mandatory risk disclosures, are framed as “burdens” on a woman’s reproductive freedom. The language in amendments often seeks to eliminate these protections.

Talking Points:

 

• Miscarriage care is distinct from elective abortion. Including it in amendments is a deliberate tactic to mislead voters.
  
  

• Women deserve clarity and truth—not scare tactics designed to further an abortion agenda under the guise of compassionate care.
  
  

• Pregnancy help organizations support women through true compassionate care.
  Women who suffer the loss of a child through miscarriage need clear, compassionate care—not fear-driven misinformation. Pregnancy help organizations provide this care every day, offering consulting, medical support, and a listening ear without confusing miscarriage care with elective abortion. We recognize the difference and stand ready to support women through their grief with the dignity and respect they deserve, countering false claims that seek to conflate these issues for political gain.
  
  

 

• Miscarriage care is fundamentally different from elective abortion.
  No laws regulating abortion have ever restricted access to care for miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies. Including “miscarriage care” in these amendments is a scare tactic intended to confuse voters into believing that abortion restrictions harm women needing legitimate medical treatment.

Background:
Pro-Abortion Messaging: The inclusion of "miscarriage care" in reproductive freedom amendments is misleadingly presented as necessary for protecting women’s health.