‘You can be a good mom’: Her PLAN helps women find support to choose life

Research shows that roughly 60% of women who have had abortions say they would have chosen life if they had more support at the time, according to Anna Stephens of Her PLAN, a pro-life safety net organization that provides practical support to mothers experiencing crisis and for years afterward.

“Abortion says to women: ‘You can’t be a good mom.’ It’s a lie,” she said. “The pro-life movement says the opposite.”

The organization connects services that already exist within communities so that pregnant women and new mothers who want to choose life can receive the practical support they need.

“At Her PLAN, we do the ‘life’ piece of the pro-life movement,” Stephens said. “We help moms to choose life, and to sustain it.”

With the approach of the U.S. bishops’ Pregnancy Help Appreciation Week from Nov. 9–13, Stephens, marketing and communications director at Her PLAN, spoke with EWTN News about the organization’s mission and how her faith informs her work there.

Her PLAN , founded in 2020 and headquartered in Virginia, assesses women’s needs across seven key areas, aiming to strengthen community-based resources that can meet those needs at the time of a crisis pregnancy and…