Every child saved, every mother supported, and every pregnancy standing is evidence that hope is not naïve but justified.
(NCR) “Having a baby seemed impossible.”
That is what Aagust, a Florida nursing student, said she believed the day she visited a Planned Parenthood facility where she was given mifepristone to start a drug-induced abortion.
Then she changed her mind.
With help from her mother and the Abortion Pill Rescue Network, she went to the Mosaic Sexual Health Clinic, a pregnancy center near her home. They gave her an ultrasound so she could see her unborn child. It was — literally — a life-changing and life-saving moment.
“The moment I first saw my baby on the ultrasound, my life was complete,” Aagust later told the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI). “I was nervous about being a mom, but I knew that I could do it.”
Rather than take the final drug to complete the abortion of her unborn child, Aagust underwent abortion-pill reversal. With the help of the Mosaic clinic, her unborn child survived.
“He is the smartest, most active little boy ever, and I love him so much,” she said. “God used Mosaic to save my baby, and I am forever grateful.”
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This beautiful story is not a rare story in America today thanks to the many pregnancy centers like Mosaic that work to protect human lives, not destroy them. This story is also a reflection of hope that is grounded in measurable successes and rigorous research from the pro-life movement.
In its latest “National Pregnancy Center Report,” CLI reported that, in 2024, there were 2,775 pregnancy centers operating in this country. Together, they provided more than $452 million in goods and services to help women, their babies and their families.
This included more than 636,000 ultrasounds — like the one that helped inspire Aagust to keep her baby. It also included almost five million clothing items and more than six million packs of diapers for babies whose mothers, like Aagust, made the right choice and allowed them to live.
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The defunding of big abortion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will save lives, as the history of the Hyde Amendment has already demonstrated. That amendment, first sponsored by the late U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois in 1976, specifically prohibits federal Medicaid funds from covering abortion. A CLI analysis determined that from 1976 through September 2025, this amendment saved the lives of 2.6 million unborn babies.
The defunding provision in the act prompted the closure of many abortion facilities, including Planned Parenthoods. With that, the abortion lobby falsely claimed women wouldn’t have access to affordable “health care.” The reality is Planned Parenthood facilities specialize in taking the lives of unborn babies. In 2022-23, 97% of the time, women seeking help related to their pregnancy at Planned Parenthood were sold an abortion.
While Planned Parenthood focuses primarily on abortion, the Charlott Lozier Institute identified last year more than 8,800 federally funded community women’s health providers across this country, which outnumbered Planned Parenthood’s 579 brick-and-mortar and virtual locations by 15 to 1. These 8,800 community health providers include approximately 5,500 federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and approximately 3,300 rural health clinics (RHCs). Both the FQHCs and the RHCs offer women’s health services.
The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion, was a great victory for life. But the fight is not over. From July 2023 through June 2024, an estimated 1.1 million unborn babies were aborted in this country.
And, as of last February, according to a CLI analysis, there were still 777 facilities performing surgical and/or drug-induced abortions in the United States and mail-order abortion drugs could be obtained from 142 organizations in this country — as well as from some outside it.
There is real work ahead, but the progress we have seen gives us reason to hope. Every child saved, every mother supported, and every pregnancy standing is evidence that hope is not naïve but justified.
Editor's note: Karen Czarnecki is the executive director of the Charlotte Lozier Institute. This article was published by National Catholic Register and is reprinted with permission. Heartbeat International manages the Abortion Pill Rescue® Network (APRN) and Pregnancy Help News. Heartbeat is currently the subject of two lawsuits brought by state AGs concerning charing information about Abortion Pill Reversal.
