The recent letter attacking Wyoming’s pregnancy care centers was filled with misinformation and dismissive rhetoric toward organizations that serve women with compassion and integrity. As someone who believes that Wyoming women deserve the truth, not political talking points, I’d like to set the record straight.
First, these pregnancy care centers (often called Pregnancy Resource Centers) exist for one purpose: to help pregnant women with free, practical, and compassionate support in ways that no government program or abortion provider does.
Their prenatal support includes ultrasounds, pregnancy tests, and additional services. Post-birth support often includes diapers, baby clothes, formula, parenting classes, and even job search preparation and assistance.
The claim that these centers are “unregulated” or “dishonest” is simply false.
In Wyoming, several centers partner with licensed medical professionals who provide ultrasounds, prenatal information, and other testing, while others in more rural areas are able to provide help for women to get to the resources they need.
What these centers don’t do is refer women for abortions—because they exist to offer a life-affirming alternative. That’s not deception; that’s mission clarity. Many of the women who work and volunteer at these centers have experienced abortion themselves and are driven by empathy, not ideology, to ensure others don’t walk that painful road alone.
If we’re going to talk about “truthful medical information,” let’s talk about the abortion pill—falsely promoted as “safe and easy.”
A 2025 study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, analyzing nearly 865,000 cases of chemical abortions, found that more than 10% of women experienced serious medical complications such as hemorrhage, sepsis, or infection, 22 times higher than what the FDA claims. That’s not “safe.” That’s deeply concerning.
These findings echo what pregnancy centers see every day: women arriving at emergency rooms after incomplete chemical abortions, often alone, frightened, and misinformed. Yet instead of addressing the lack of safety and aftercare in the abortion industry, critics attack the very organizations offering free help and emotional healing.
To call abortion in any form “healthcare” is to distort the meaning of both health and care. True healthcare preserves life; it does not end it. True compassion stands with women through every circumstance, not only when their choices align with a political agenda.
The false accusations against these centers point to the fact that their important work needs to be protected. Rather than shutting down pregnancy resource centers, Wyoming should strengthen them.
They embody what real choice looks like—supporting women before, during, and after pregnancy, without financial motive or coercion. Every woman deserves to know she can choose life and still find love, help, and hope in her community.
Our state’s mothers and daughters deserve better than the false choice between abortion and abandonment. They deserve a culture of life, one that tells the truth, offers real care, and values both mother and child.
Nathan Winters is President & CEO of Wyoming Family Alliance
Cheyenne, WY
