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On behalf of more than 300 pregnancy centers across the nation, Seven Weeks Coffee and Americans United for Life (AUL) delivered a letter to Congress today, urging pro-life leadership to stand firmly for authentic women’s healthcare by defunding abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.
Signers of this letter are just some of the more than 1500 pregnancy center leaders that are part of Seven Weeks Coffee’s nationwide network and supported by their mission.
Anton Krecic, Founder & CEO of Seven Weeks Coffee, stated, “Seven Weeks Coffee is privileged to support over 1,200 pregnancy centers nationwide and elevate their message that abortion providers must be defunded. Abortion businesses are unequipped to meet the actual needs of women, while the pregnancy centers we support offer practical resources, including baby essentials, parenting support and medical guidance that support moms before and after birth.”
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John Mize, CEO of AUL, emphasized, “Extending the historic defunding of abortion providers accomplished through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act must be the first priority for Congress in further reconciliation efforts. Women deserve authentic healthcare, not to be sold the taxpayer-funded lie that ending the life of their children will resolve the difficult circumstances leading them to consider abortion in the first place. Where abortion businesses will always fail to empower women, Congress must protect the rights of life-affirming pregnancy centers which continue to meet women in their need.”
Read the full letter below:
May 19th, 2026
The Honorable Donald J. Trump
President of the United States
The White House
The Honorable John Thune
Senate Majority Leader
United States Senate
The Honorable Mike Johnson
Speaker of the House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
Dear President Trump and Members of Congress,
On behalf of pregnancy centers, maternity homes, adoption agencies, and other pro-life
organizations serving women, children, and families across the country, we write gratefully for
every action taken to support life and to encourage you to advance policies that protect women
and their preborn children. Defunding abortion providers for one year through the One Big
Beautiful Bill was a historic achievement. That monumental moratorium will expire on July 4. We
cannot in good conscience celebrate 250 years of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by
simultaneously federally funding the largest abortion provider in the country. Nor can we ignore
the devastation caused by the abortion pill.
We urge you to continue your commitment to standing strong for authentic healthcare for
women by defunding abortion providers like Planned Parenthood and, at minimum, reinstating
oversight and protections on chemical abortion.
Today, we share with you our great concern for the women who have experienced physical
and emotional harm, and on behalf of the more than 60 million children who were never given a
chance at life due to the tragedy of abortion.
Much of this was made possible by American taxpayer dollars. As just one example,
according to Planned Parenthood’s 2023-2024 annual report, they received $684.1 million in
private donations. The report shows that they received an additional $792 million in taxpayer
funding, an increase of $92.9 million from the previous report. This means that while Planned
Parenthood is receiving millions of dollars in private donations, they continue to rely on taxpayers
to support its deadly operations. Failing to extend the moratorium on taxpayer funding in the One
Big Beautiful Bill would return America to being the largest subsidizer of abortion providers.
Still more must be done. Under the Biden administration, a decision was made to remove
the in-person dispensing requirements for deadly abortion drugs, namely mifepristone. This ease
of access to abortion pills has only led to greater physical violence against both women and
children. In a study of publicly available data released last year, out of 865,727 prescribed chemical
abortions between 2017 and 2023, 94,605 women experienced serious adverse events—the type
of events that can put you in the emergency room.1 That is more than one in ten women—twenty-
two times higher than the FDA’s claimed rate.2
These harms include sepsis, infection, hemorrhage, incomplete abortion, or another serious
adverse event. The FDA’s purpose is to promote the health and safety of Americans, not put them
in the emergency room. Yet, the safety of women is at risk because the FDA no longer requires
physician oversight when a woman obtains mifepristone, the first drug in the chemical abortion
regimen. The two-pill medication abortion regimen not only harms the mother but starves her
preborn child to death as well.
After an abortion, women often report a lack of informed consent, follow-up care, and even
death. A married Texas man was charged with murder for slipping an abortion cocktail containing
mifepristone into his girlfriend’s drink in an attempt to cover up his infidelity, causing his girlfriend
to suffer an abortion after she had expressed a strong desire to raise her child.
3
The abortion pill has also been linked to multiple women’s tragic and preventable deaths,
highlighting the profound dangers associated with its use. In the leadup to the 2024 election,
ProPublica reported on two Georgia women who died from abortion drug complications that went
untreated, tragedies that pro-life OB-GYNs and Georgia public health officials viewed as
preventable.4 Two more women were put in the hospital after receiving mifepristone through the
mail.5
Considering these tragedies and the obvious lack of medical oversight, it is more critical
than ever that abortion providers are defunded both directly and through policies such as including
Hyde protections in any healthcare packages passed by Congress.
Women facing unexpected pregnancies or pressure to abort should not be subjected to
further coercion by an abortion industry that too often prioritizes profit over the well-being of
women. In moments of crisis, they need practical and emotional support, such as a listening ear
and material assistance. According to a 2023 study, sixty percent of the women surveyed said
1 See Jamie Hall & Ryan Anderson, The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients
Experience a Serious Adverse Event, EPPC (Apr. 28, 2025), https://eppc.org/publication/stop-harming-women/.
2 Hall & Anderson, supra note 2.
3 Rachel Snyder et al., North Texas Man Charged with Capital Murder for Allegedly Giving Pregnant Girlfriend
Abortion-Inducing Drug in Secret, Officials Say, WFAA (June 11, 2025),
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county/north-texas-man-arrested-murder-accused-secretly-giving-
pregnant-girlfriend-abortion-inducing-drug/287-78e3ff6d-826c-41ff-925b-b558b8f69d03; Yang Tian, Man Charged
Over Abortion Drug in Partner’s Drink, BBC (June 9, 2025), https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r1enk0x0eo.
4 See Lindsay Kornick, OB-GYNs Decry the ‘Fearmongering’ About Georgia’s Abortion Laws: ‘The Lies are
Hurting Women,’ FOX NEWS (Sept. 27, 2024), https://www.foxnews.com/media/ob-gyns-decry-fearmongering-
about-georgias-abortion-laws-the-lies-hurting-women.
5 See LA Grand Jury Indicts NY Abortionist for Harming LA Girl & Baby With Abortion Drugs, SBA (Jan. 31, 2025),
https://sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press-releases/la-grand-jury-indicts-ny-abortionist-for-harming-la-girl-baby-with-
abortion-drugs; AG Paxton Sues NY Abortionist For Harming Texas Women & Babies with Abortion Drugs, SBA
(Dec. 13, 2024), https://sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press-releases/ag-paxton-sues-ny-abortionist-for-harming-texas-
women-babies-with-abortion-drugs.
“they would have preferred to give birth if they had received either more emotional support or had
more financial security.”6
This is where pregnancy centers come into play. Pregnancy centers are nonprofit
organizations that have helped vulnerable women and men facing unplanned pregnancies since the
late 1960s. These centers were founded to provide pregnancy-related resources a
