Activate Your Church to Save Lives

Called into existence by the Christ-centered pregnancy help movement, Heartbeat International has been serving women in unexpected pregnancies since 1971.

As the go-to resource for local pregnancy centers, ultrasound-equipped medical clinics, maternity homes, nonprofit adoption agencies, and more, Heartbeat International also answers more than 1,000 cries for help each day through our 24/7 pregnancy helpline, Option Line, connecting callers to life-saving help near them.

The very best alternative to abortion is another person. That’s why Heartbeat International strives to equip, encourage, and champion grassroots efforts to reach and rescue as many lives as possible around the world through an effective network of life-affirming pregnancy help to renew communities for LIFE.

Christians and local churches have always been the engine behind the life-saving pregnancy help movement, and it is our hope to continue to connect believers of all denominations to the resources they need to make a difference in their own communities.

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Call a Center 2,800 life-affirming pregnancy centers in the U.S. need Gospel-minded partners like you. Call your nearest center and ask how your church can help. Find a center near you!	Mobilize a Mission From giving and partnering in fundraising, to mentoring moms and dads, to serving on the leadership team, mobilize your church to save lives in your town. 9 Things you should know about pregnancy help orgs	Spread a Vision Men and women all around us are affected by surprise pregnancies and abortion. Assure others of God’s love for every life and the death-defying forgiveness found at the Cross. Download 10 things you can say and do to make abortion unwanted today!	Build a Bridge Work hand-in-hand with other life- affirming churches and groups around you to rescue women and families from the deadly cross-hairs of abortion. Connect with Heartbeat's Life-Saving Mission.

Be a Lifesaver Every 4 minutes, Heartbeat rescues a child from abortion in the U.S. through our life-saving network and 24-7 pregnancy helpline, Option Line. Give, with your church, to this vital work on a one-time, monthly, or annual basis. Click here to learn more!	Adopt an Outpost With 50 million women resorting to abortion each year around the world, pregnancy help is needed in every corner of the globe. Sponsor our affiliates all over the world. Support an international center here.	Spark an Awakening God clearly calls His church to “rescue those being led away to death.” Pray for a greater awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every life-bearing God’s image. Sign up to receive regular updates from Heartbeat International! Sign up for weekly updates from Heartbeat's Pregnancy Help News.	Build a Leader Since 1971, Heartbeat International has been at the forefront of equipping life-affirming leaders all around the world. Invest with us in life-savers on every inhabited continent. Click here to build a leader!

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Movimento per la Vita

Movimento Per la Vita Italiano (MPVI) is the most prominent Italian Pro-life Association. It has the mission to defend and promote the value of human life “from the conception to the natural death” without exceptions.

Since 1975, MPVI has been actively working nationwide to promote the right to life and the value of human dignity. It meets pregnant women who need help with tailor-made empowerment projects: every story, every woman, is different and unique.

Solidarity, democracy, non-confessional purpose, and specificity are the other values inspiring the Movement service.

At a glance:

• 32.500 mothers served each year,
• 11.934 mothers assisted in 2019-2022 through SOS Vita (Italian Option line),
• 10.000 volunteers across the nation,
• 431 pregnancy help centers (Centri di Aiuto alla Vita - CAV) and local MPV centers,
• 64 maternity homes,
• 2 MOVIT, pro-life university groups (in Florence and Rome),
• 1 “Equipe giovani,” i.e. the national youth group.

We welcome every mother with difficulty, maybe hesitating to keep her baby.

Our challenge is reaching many more mothers through SOS VITA service.

Let Us Help Her.

SOS Vita

In addition to CAVs and Homes, the MPV offers the Option Line called "SOS VITA," which includes a free line (+39 800 813 000) and an online chat (sosvita.it). Both these services are open 24/7.

It is the best solution to overcome the fear of judgment and the shame of some girls and still offer them listening until the last moment before choosing their pregnancy. 

Carlo's Life: A Gift for Everyone

In 2019, during the pandemic, Beatrice was only 19 years old. She had recently started college and dreamed of becoming a professor of Math. Caught by the sudden pandemic, she isolated herself from her family in the city where she studied. She approached that neighbor, a handsome young man, a late-year student in law school. She got pregnant. Desperate and isolated, Bea surfed on the Internet, found a contact, and found SOS VITA. Thanks to the support of our volunteer, called like her mother, she felt supported and decided to keep her baby. At the baptism of Carlo, Beatrice invited all her uncles, even those with whom there had been misunderstandings. Thanks to the birth of little Carlo, the parents met her uncles, they clarified themselves, and today the family is more united than before.

All financial gifts received designated for our approved “alliance” affiliates will be forwarded to them in a reasonable timeframe (usually upon exceeding $250US). Heartbeat International deducts $30 plus 3% from the transfer, to help defray internal cost for money transfers, currency conversion, clerical costs, bank fees and any processing fees that might be charged. Should any funds be unable to be forwarded – primarily related to the recipient - they may be re-allocated for similar international work.

Centros de Ayuda para la Mujer Latinoamericana

CAM is a life-affirming network of 98 pro-life ministries in 20 Latin American countries, founded in Mexico in 1989. 

CAM serves pregnancy help ministries by assisting their affiliates in fulfilling the mission that God has given to reach, rescue, and renew their communities for life by serving abortion-vulnerable women and their families and working to restore God’s plan for our sexuality. CAM is committed to defending human life from the moment of conception to natural death across Latin America. 

CAM also provides valuable training, such as cooking and sewing, to women in low income situations who are facing an unexpected pregnancy. (See testimony below)

CAM is a joint Affiliation Partners with Heartbeat International. Heartbeat supports their efforts to equip and encourage a regional network of local, grassroots efforts to promote life-affirming alternatives to abortion. 

Client Testimony:

"I went to the clinic Santa Catarina (Mexico City) because I decided to get an abortion, but CAM (Woman Help Center) convinced me to have the baby. Now I have a job thanks to CAM."

–Veronica 

Pregnancy Help Australia

Pregnancy Help Australia is a national body that provides support, education and resources to life-affirming pregnancy support centres throughout Australia. 
The services we provide to Pregnancy Support Centres allow them to better assist women and families who may be experiencing difficulties as a result of a pregnancy or suffering a pregnancy loss.

 Our Vision: 

• Supports agencies to be dynamic, compassionate organisations committed to the provision of professional services for all pregnancy related issues
• Supports agencies that provide information and support for women, their partners and their families when they are experiencing distress or hardship as the result of pregnancy or any pregnancy loss.

Our Mission:

• Pregnancy Help Australia is dedicated to ensuring that quality pregnancy support services are available to everyone
• Pregnancy Help Australia provides support to individual agencies that offer positive choices for women, their partners and their families.

Pregnancy Support Services of Asia (PSSA)

Pregnancy Support Services of Asia (PSSA) is a non-profit interdenominational organization of life affirming pregnancy resource centers across Asia. 

PSSA, founded by Lily Perez and headquartered in Manila, takes on the daily challenge of pregnancy support, thanks to the grace-filled vision that God gave to Lily over a decade ago.

PSSA has joined hands with Heartbeat International in a joint-affiliation agreement that makes more life-saving services available to PSSA’s pregnancy help centers.

PSSA affiliates offer concrete services and support to people who are experiencing or have experienced problem pregnancies.

VISION:  An environment where every human heart is cherished and protected – within the womb and within strong families. – from Heartbeat International

MISSION:  To reduce abortion and strengthen the family in Asia by establishing, developing, and supporting life-affirming pregnancy services through prevention, crisis intervention and healing.

VALUES:  PSSA upholds the intrinsic value of every human life; and promotes the special place of sexuality within marriage, children and within strong families.

Pregnancy Care Canada 

Pregnancy Care Canada (formerly CAPSS) was formed in 1997 to provide a Canadian national association dedicated to encouraging, equipping and partnering with local Pregnancy Centres.

Pregnancy Care Canada provides leadership development, operational standards, staff, and volunteer training along with spiritual encouragement to over 70 affiliated Centres.

Their purpose is to help assist local pregnancy centers to reach and compassionately care for clients facing issues related to unplanned pregnancies, post-abortion stress, and sexual health.

Pregnancy Care Canada is a joint Affiliation Partners with Heartbeat International. Heartbeat supports their efforts to equip and encourage a regional network of local, grassroots efforts to promote life-affirming alternatives to abortion. 

Association for Life of Africa

Barbra Nalavwe Mwansa, founded the first pro-life pregnancy center in Zambia in 1998, Silent Voices, which has now saved 7,000 babies from abortion and spread the message of life to more than 25,000 young people in the nation of Zambia.

IAs the Silent Voices ministry grew, they began training people who were passionate about saving lives and desired to open centers in their own countries across the continent of Africa. In 2009 Barbra and the Silent Voices team held the first PAN- AFRICAN Conference. Since then there has been an increase of centers in Zambia and throughout Africa. Because of the demand for training indigenous workers and the great results that followed, Association for Life of Africa was formed by Barbra and her team to continue serving those who seek to start and run life-affirming pregancy help ministries in Africa.

AFLA is a joint Affiliation Partners with Heartbeat International. Heartbeat supports their efforts to equip and encourage a regional network of local, grassroots efforts to promote life-affirming alternatives to abortion. 

Client Testimony:

My name is Tamara. My mom died when I was 6 years old. My dad decided to return to Nigeria after my mother's death but my grandmother would not allow him to take me. I stayed with my grandmother until I was 9 years old. At that time I went to live with my uncle so that I could start going to school since my grandmother had no means to support me. While my aunt was away on a trip my uncle came into my room and raped me every night until she returned. I started feeling weak and sick. I later found out that I was pregnant. When my aunt came back, I knew had to tell her what had happened. She was angry but could not report the case to the police. She asked me to report the rape to the police for fear that the husband would harm her. My uncle was arrested and has remained in custody.

The government removed me from my home and took me to Silent Voices Maternity Home. My blood level was only 4 mills, I had no strength. In the maternity home, I was cared for and delivered a baby boy. I named the baby Michael resembling to the Arc angel that fought the powers of darkness. My baby is two weeks old. I am happy to see this baby besides the pain and the suffering.  I thank Silent Voice and AFLA for their love and support.

 

 

All financial gifts received designated for our approved “alliance” affiliates will be forwarded to them in a reasonable timeframe (usually upon exceeding $250US). Heartbeat International deducts $30 plus 3% from the transfer, to help defray internal cost for money transfers, currency conversion, clerical costs, bank fees and any processing fees that might be charged. Should any funds be unable to be forwarded – primarily related to the recipient - they may be re-allocated for similar international work.

Pregnancy Help Network - South Africa

Since 2000 Pregnancy Help Network (formerly Africa Cares for Life) has been affirming life through developing and equipping an effective network of 70 pregnancy help centers in South Africa to reach women and families facing an unexpected or crisis pregnancy.

We provide assessments and guidance to emerging pregnancy help NPO’s and mentor existing organizations through networking and workshops that teach train and develop South Africans to be a nation that affirms and values life.

We source, develop, and provide a wide range of training material, brochures, booklets, books, and equipment to enhance our service delivery.

An annual conference introduces pregnancy centers to the latest trends and developments in the field of women, children, and family care.

Our range of training includes personal and leadership development and various counseling skills to equip and empower pregnancy care centers to assist families affected by a crisis pregnancy.

Client Testimony:

I had three clients who changed their minds about abortion after counseling. Once was a student who was convinced that she cannot keep her baby and that her parents would not accept her pregnancy. After our counseling, she talked with her mother and both parents responded differently than she had expected. (Counsellor from Options Care Centre...George...South Africa)

Pregnancy Help Network convenes an annual conference that facilitates networking opportunities with centers in SA which help each center to learn what has been tried and is working and where we can make improvements in our own centers. Through Pregnancy Help Network we also have access to resources and training from other organizations and countries that they partner with. These ‘’tools of our trade’’ are a huge benefit for our centers in terms of helping a client to consider a life-affirming solution to her crisis pregnancy. (Pregnancy Resource Centre...Amanzimtoti...South Africa)