Ohio pregnancy centers delivered significantly more in services in 2024 than 2023 and assisted considerably more women, a new report says.
The centers provided $5 million more in services last year and met the needs of 31,000 additional women from the previous year, according to the report conducted by the Ohio Coalition of Pregnancy Centers and the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
Coalition President Savannah Marten said the nearly $22 million figure for services and materials provided in 2024 may be due to the increased cost of living, representing a challenge which pregnancy centers in the state were still able to meet.
“The cost of goods and services in this economy is more,” she said. “And still pregnancy centers in Ohio rose to the occasion, delivering important baby items and critical services to women in need.”
Economic difficulties likely also brought the additional 31,171 clients through pregnancy center doors, she said.
“There were also more than $2 million in medical services provided which proves that the myth that pregnancy centers are not providing critical medical services to families in Ohio is false,” Marten said.
Centers provided 37,690 pregnancy tests, 34,096 ultrasounds, and 4,134 STD tests. Educational assistance in 2024 included 59,255 free consultations with new clients. 69,270 sexual risk avoidance students, 17,352 parenting classes and 1,410 abortion recovery participants.
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In November of last year the Ohio Coalition of Pregnancy Centers joined forces with the Center for Christian Virtue to allow advocacy for pregnancy centers to have a voice in government in the state.
Despite the passage of Issue 1 enshrining abortion in the state constitution Ohio is a state that supports most life-affirming legislation. At the end of 2025, the House of Representatives passed two pro-life bills. This included the Patient Protection Act aimed at stopping mail order abortion bills.
Marten said the availability of the pill by mail is the biggest hurdle for centers currently.
The second bill was the Baby Olivia Act which would provide schools with a three-minute video on the development of the unborn child.
This past fall the Ohio legislature also passed a budget with positive elements for pregnancy help, including funds for its programming in parenting, adoption, fatherhood, and maternal and infant housing assistance, an ultrasound machine initiative, an adoption grant program, and a tax deduction for pregnancy center donations.
“Ohio moms unexpectedly pregnant need practical, positive help to say no to the lure of abortion and its profiteers,” said Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International. “Ohio’s life-affirming legislature is right to support pregnancy centers in their efforts to champion moms and their babies.”
Heartbeat is the largest network of pregnancy help organizations in the U.S. and globally.
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Marten said even if legislation does not follow through for life, centers in Ohio do not cease in their efforts to serve women and families.
“The report shows that regardless of where Ohio is politically, that pregnancy centers are showing up and doing incredible work to save and change lives,” Marten said. “Women are often left feeling abortion is their only option, but pregnancy centers are providing tangible resources and support, helping her see that she can have her baby and her dreams too.”
Marten referenced a story about a client known as Sydney from a Bowling Green center.
The 20-year-old found HerChoice Pregnancy Center when she said she felt her world “was falling apart” with an unplanned pregnancy while attending college.
“To be surrounded by people who were so understanding made me realize that maybe, just maybe, everything was going to be okay,” Sydney said.
Sydney said she not only viewed her unborn baby girl on the ultrasound, but she was also given information about pregnancy and birth classes offered there at the center to help her with this new experience.
“I accepted their help without hesitation,” she said. “I honestly had no idea what else I was going to do.”
Rochelle Sikora is the executive director of HerChoice in Bowling Green.
“Sydney's story is special because she is special,” Sikora said.
“From the moment I met her, I liked her,” she said. “She is a full-time student, working full time, not married, and desperately wanting to break the cycle of poverty she grew up in.”
“Abortion seemed like an easy fix,” said Sikora. “She was so open and willing to be vulnerable with us. She allowed us into her life and was so grateful for all the support and resources we had to offer.”
Sydney still comes to visit the center and updates them on how things are going, Sikora said.
This story, she said, is the prime example of how centers in Ohio are making a difference.
“I think the Ohio stats show the enormous need that is being met by pregnancy centers across the state,” Sikora said. “It shows that we care deeply not just about life in the womb but also about the moms and dads facing difficult circumstances. From the free medical services to the educational resources and practical support of diapers and clothes, we are here to walk with our clients through it all.”
Sikora has been the center’s director since 2021, and she said the numbers coming out of her center alone for 2025 are promising.
“We saw a 30 percent increase in the number of clients served in 2025 over 2024,” she said. “We saw just shy of 400 individual clients plus their families. We provided over 200 pregnancy tests, over 100 ultrasounds. We provided over 1000 parenting education classes in 2025.”
The full Ohio Pregnancy Center State Impact Report can be found HERE.
