Thousands of pro-life centers and clinics stand ready to help moms in crisis. The problem is that most vulnerable women are not aware of them. Congress can change that.

For every one Planned Parenthood clinic, there are dozens of pregnancy resource centers and clinics ready to help new moms. But while these life-affirming centers outnumber the big abortion facilities, their advertising budgets are infinitesimally smaller.  The most recent study on abortion statistics showed that 87% of women who get abortions are unmarried. These are women without a strong support system around them, who are bombarded by the advertising campaigns and educational propaganda put out by Planned Parenthood. When they find themselves in what can be a scary situation, they do not know where to turn besides the nation’s largest abortion facilitator.

Yet despite the vast number of resources that the abortion industry has, the Biden Administration chose to help them ever further. Right after the Supreme Court returned the abortion question to the states in Dobbs v. Jackson, Health and Human Services under Pres. Biden launched “reproductiverights.org,” a federal level website designed to show women where the closest Planned Parenthood to them was located. It was an explicit way to promote abortion from the nation’s top office.

We were very grateful that on January 20, one of President Trump’s very first actions was to take down this egregious publicly funded site. But now is the time to take the next step. In post-Roe America, it is critical for the pro-life movement to help these women know that they have other options besides abortion, and there is a community of compassionate caregivers willing to walk beside them in a difficult season. Rather than help the abortion industry further advertise its services, the administration can use its resources to promote resources that actually help women. That’s why Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is calling on Congress to support an idea that would help do exactly that.

The idea is to create a federal level web portal that would provide this information. All a women would have to do is go to the website, type in her zip code, and the portal would bring up every resource in her area that would be helpful during a pregnancy. This would include, of course, pregnancy resources centers, but it would also list where she could get housing support, services related to domestic violence, legal support, and mentorship opportunities, just to name a few. Essentially any resource that would be helpful to a woman in this situation could be included, with the exception of abortion providers. It would aggregate the government’s resources, preexisting assistance programs, and intergovernmental relationships and lend them the credibility intrinsic to a “.gov” address to help mothers in their time of need.

This web portal would show that an expectant mom does not have to turn to Planned Parenthood as her only option. It would not force her to choose life or regulate abortion in any way from the federal level. What it would do is provide easier access to the vast network of providers willing to walk with a mom as she navigates her pregnancy and early years of motherhood.

Several bills will be introduced in Congress this year that would implement this idea. One is Standing with Moms, a bill that was once sponsored by former Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) but is being taken up by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri). That bill titles the website “Life.gov,” and would fund it by using unobligated but already appropriated funds within Health and Human Services. Another bill is the MOMS Act, sponsored by Sen. Katie Britt (R-Alabama). It is a larger legislative package containing a number of provisions, but one of them is this resource portal.

There are already three states that have created a portal like this – Florida, South Dakota, and North Dakota. These states provide a helpful model of how a government sponsored website of this sort can be implemented and has inspired many other states to begin work on their own versions of life.gov. But we know that there are several abortion-minded states that will never take on this project – that’s why it’s critical that the federal government promote life-saving resources for women nationwide.

Thank you to our Capitol Hill partners for championing this legislation that would provide a lifeline to many moms in need. We at CWALAC are committed to educating and equipping women to choose life for their babies, and Life.gov would go a long way in doing just that. Use our action center to encourage lawmakers to support these bills.