A busy pregnancy center in Alabama is celebrating five decades of assisting women and babies.
Wiregrass Emergency Pregnancy Service in Enterprise has offered a range of pro-life caring services to the community since 1976.
Back in 1975, the Wiregrass Right to Life group saw the need for pregnancy help as an alternative to abortion and established the Wiregrass Emergency Pregnancy Service along with the Our Lady of Loretto Guild in Fort Rucker, Alabama, and Father Barbernitz, Catholic chaplain for the Daleville Council of the Knights of Columbus.
Thanks to a donation of two ultrasound machines from the Knights of Columbus, Wiregrass Emergency Pregnancy Service was able to offer free ultrasounds.
The organization later relocated its office from Daleville to Enterprise, Alabama, and in 2021, it purchased its current office on Glover Ave.
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Wiregrass Emergency Pregnancy Service has consistently maintained its mission of reaching out to women and families facing unplanned pregnancies and providing life-affirming options, dedication, and resource assistance.
“We are so grateful to live in a pro-life state,” said Executive Director Tamara Davis. “But we have found this to be both a blessing and a curse, as women are feeling "rushed" to make a decision like never before.”
“Women are traveling across state lines, ordering pills online and finding themselves in medical emergencies with no medical provider to follow up with,” Davis said.
“After 13 years in pregnancy center ministry, I would be remiss if I didn’t pause and share that most of our clients are not scared teenagers,” she said.
“They are women of various ages,” said David. “Many are mothers who really want to do what they feel is right for their children - both born and unborn. They just need a listening ear, truth, and the love and grace that we, the church, have been called to be vessels of.”
Davis remarked about reaching these vulnerable women.
“We have to remember that it is a gift that they would allow us, strangers, to be that listening ear, a gift that we must steward as it is fragile,” she said. “I once heard a missionary say, “We must build relationship bridges strong enough to support heavy truths.””
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In 2025, 463 parenting classes were taught, 309 boutique items were distributed, 228 pregnancy tests were administered, and 39 sonograms were performed at Wiregrass Emergency Pregnancy Service.
Out of those pregnancy test visits, 11 were abortion vulnerable. and 10 moms chose life for their children.
Davis shared a client story at a talk she gave recently:
Grace (not her real name) came into our clinic, visible shaken and emotional as a result of an unplanned pregnancy. As I invited her into our pregnancy testing room, Grace showed raw emotions as she shared that she not only wanted to end the relationship- but she wholeheartedly did not want to be pregnant. She was already a single mother of two sweet boys, and had undergone abortions in her past and knew she didn’t want to go through that again.
I didn’t have anything “new” to tell her. She knew the beauty of being a mother. She knew the heartbreak of terminating a pregnancy. I sat, and I encouraged her to do what she already knew her heart was telling her, choose life. She could do this. She just needed to trust the God who had been so generous to give her another opportunity to carry life.
On December 2, Grace returned for her ultrasound appointment and invited Davis into the ultrasound room.
“We all looked in awe as the fuzzy black and white images slowly became clearer - confirming what she had learned just last week at an ER visit … Grace had TWO healthy babies growing inside her womb,” Davis said. “Grace cried, and we all showered her with love and words of encouragement.”
Since then, Grace has been supplied with maternity clothes and pre-natal vitamins, as she prays to be able to continue working after her babies are born. The twins are due in July 2026.
The guest speaker for the 50th anniversary banquet will be Dr. Steventhen Holland, former abortionist and founder of Broken Not Dead Ministries.
Holland’s own life resulted from an unplanned pregnancy when his 18-year-old mentally challenged mother was gang raped. Despite pressure to abort, this young woman placed him in foster care, where he was later adopted.
