Living Proof: Stories from Vitae’s Alpha Centers (Summer 2025)
Clementine Clementine* scheduled an appointment with our pregnancy center with a simple request: she needed support. When she arrived, she explained that she was pregnant and unsure of what to do.As we listened, her story unfolded. She had recently fled an abusive...
Shifting the Focus: Pro-Life Media as a Voice for Women, Not Politics
“Why don’t I hear these kinds of stories in the media?” This was the question I asked myself on the plane back from Heartbeat International’s 2025 annual conference. I had just interviewed several pregnancy center directors and listened as they talked about the women...
The Church’s Quiet Crisis
“Time heals all wounds.” For a while, I made this phrase a part of my vocabulary, and then I realized it wasn’t true. Not one bit. When I lost a good friend of mine, Tyler, years ago unexpectedly, I really took a lot of time to “process” what happened. I thought about...
Why Facts Fail: How to Actually Change Minds About Abortion
As much as it ages me to say, I became a young adult just as the internet was becoming popular. As I explored “the web” (again, aging myself), I suddenly found myself amidst many worldviews much different from my own. As I encountered social media posts, articles or...
Amplify, Multiply, Influence
In early 1900s Rome, Maria Montessori defied norms by becoming Italy’s first female doctor. But her passion wasn’t medicine—it was helping children, especially those deemed “uneducable.” She saw that with respect, patience and the right environment, they could thrive....
Rewriting the Narrative: Her Story Isn’t Over
I remember the exact moment I realized my period was late. I had just broken up with a narcissistic boyfriend who had been cheating on me throughout our entire relationship. I had finally walked away, finally chosen myself, and then... I thought I was pregnant....