Written by Mike Roche’s father: Bill Roche,
A parishioner of St. Mary Star of the Sea, Diocese of Venice
Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) are charitable organizations in local communities offering hope and life affirming options for pregnant women and families. Their services include: free counseling, free pregnancy tests, free ultrasounds, free STI/STD tests, and, frequently, free parenting and prenatal education classes, free diapers and clothes, free car seats and strollers and free post-abortive support. The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) reports between 2016 and 2020, over 800,000 lives nationally were saved as a result of abortion minded and abortion-vulnerable women’s visits to approximately 3000 PRCs nationally. Care Net, a PRC network, estimated the total value of such services in 2019 was $270 Million.
Despite their commitment to the public good, more than 50 PRCs and pro-life group offices nationally have been firebombed, vandalized, suffered broken windows and endured menacing threats since May. During this same period the senior senator from Massachusetts has engaged in a verbal assault on PRCs condemning them as “fake clinics” and calling for a “crack down” on pro-life centers. Yet despite the inflammatory rhetoric and attacks by pro-abortion anarchists, PRCs continue to offer women in crisis pregnancy situations positive alternatives, compassion and love. (Sources: Numerous).
