The Pregnancy Center Support Act is designed to financially support the invaluable services these centers offer to expectant moms. Pregnancy resource centers provide clothing, mentorship, medical resources, adoption services, and anything else a woman might need during and after her pregnancy. They are life-giving alternatives to Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics. And since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe. V. Wade, demand for the services offered by pregnancy resource centers has grown exponentially. In 2022 alone, 2,750 pregnancy centers provided more than 16,000,000 client sessions and over $358,000,000 in free goods and services.
But these centers are run almost entirely by volunteers and on donations. The Pregnancy Center Support Act would incentivize charitable giving to these centers by allowing for tax credits to be made available for all donations given to pregnancy centers nationwide. These centers need our support now more than ever and this bill would make it more financially appealing to do that.