Families need help, but an abortion business ‘pantry’ isn’t the place to get it

Hope Clinic, one of Illinois’ most notorious abortion facilities, has taken to Twitter/X advertising its supposed “needs pantry.” While some of the items available are, in fact, things like diapers and formula, it doesn’t appear that the goal is to help the general population who is in need. No, this “needs pantry” is available for a more limited clientele.

According to the facility’s website, the services offered at Hope Clinic are few; aside from abortions, they only appear to offer birth control, pregnancy testing, and sexually-transmitted infection (STI) testing. (You might even classify their services as “limited.”) So, like virtually all abortion facilities, the bulk of their business comes from abortions. Why does this matter?

Well, according to the tweet advertising the needs pantry, the items available there are available only to their patients.

Judging by the photo, the purpose of the abortion facility’s very small pantry seems much clearer; it’s not merely meant to help “people in need,” but to provide snacks to women who are there to undergo abortions, and diapers and formula for the babies they currently have, who have not been killed by abortion. So while a woman sits in the recovery room after ending her child’s life, she can perhaps eat some Skinny Pop or Doritos, change her living baby’s diaper, and give that same baby a bottle of formula.

The facility’s Amazon wish list further highlights the odd disparity that abortion facilities seem to be embracing on a more regular basis, too: the items listed that are their highest priority need are formula and baby diapers. It seems grossly akin to abortion facilities with playrooms on site, so that while children are playing happily in one room, smaller and more vulnerable children are being killed in a ‘procedure’ room down the hall.

Are any of this abortion facility’s “services” offered with no strings attached? It seems unlikely; after all, the Hope Clinic tweet said the “needs pantry” is available for patients. It’s hard to imagine an abortion facility turning down an opportunity to make hundreds of dollars when a desperate mother confides in them that she only wants an abortion because she doesn’t have the money to feed her other children. So, instead of giving her the support and resources she needs to feed her children and choose life, they’ll affirm her abortion decision and, apparently, throw in some socks, baby diapers, and a bag of Doritos to sweeten the deal.

There is, of course, absolutely nothing wrong with giving food or supplies to “people in need” — but the irony here is striking: this same abortion facility kills preborn children under the guise of helping “people in need” and is known to have sent multiple abortion patients to the hospital with injuries. No amount of free diapers or menstrual supplies or food is going to change the fact that this place isn’t a charitable organization that’s truly helping people. It’s a lucrative abortion business.

Meanwhile, pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) do provide the resources women need — with no strings attached. Women who need food, clothing, shelter, health care, baby supplies, and more can get them without needing to first end their child’s life. And there are several resource providers for pregnant women — Mosaic Health, Thrive, Our Lady’s Inn — available near Hope Clinic.

Recently, Live Action hosted an online diaper drive to distribute EveryLife diapers to a number of pregnancy resource centers. Starting with a goal of 100 boxes of diapers to be sent to pregnancy resource centers in California, the response was so overwhelming that this partnership was expanded nationwide thanks to a partnership with Heartbeat International (the umbrella organization for a large network of pregnancy centers). In total so far, 1,700 boxes have been distributed (each box contains six packages of diapers) to give to families in need, who visit pregnancy centers for much-needed free assistance. This diaper drive is ongoing, and those interested in helping may donate here.

Families often need help when it comes to raising their children. But the help they truly need is legitimate health care and resources they can receive from life-affirming organizations without being required to end someone’s life in the process.

The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.