Room at The Inn: How One Pregnancy Center Decided to Add a Maternity Home

By Hanna Ellis
National Right to Life

Before every great idea is birthed, there’s usually a moment or series of moments to point out and say, “That’s it. That’s when my eyes were opened to the need.”

For the team at Life Choices, a pregnancy help organization in Kittanning, Pa., those pivotal moments were in 2013. Now, four years later, that idea is on the verge of blossoming into “The Inn,” a live-in maternity home that will serve as an extension of Life Choices’ ongoing work.

Within three years leading up to 2013, Life Choices had opened up three clinics—which operate under the name “My Choice Medical Clinics”—in three counties north of Pittsburgh, Pa. As each location took off, different needs surfaced among the unique clientele each served, causing Life Choices to adapt by adding services such as ultrasounds and STD testing.

But, as the centers grew, more and more women were coming to Life Choices feeling forced into abortion as the only way out of their situations.

“What we were finding was that more and more of our clients were coming in set on abortion, and not because of personal choice—they were feeling really trapped,” Christy Pittman, who is coordinating the maternity home with Life Choices, said. “They felt like there was very little options for them. We had many clients come in and say they had nowhere to go.”

One client in particular came to Life Choices with a 9-month-old baby in her arms, seeking a pregnancy test. After giving her the positive results, the consultant discovered that she’d been living out of her car with her precious baby for the last six weeks.

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