The Southern Ohio Pregnancy Center was founded in 1991 to provide a place where women of all ages could seek loving and caring help while facing an unexpected pregnancy.
Since then, over 4,100 families have visited the Center. These families were provided with various items such as free pregnancy tests, parenting classes, diapers, formula, infant clothing, maternity clothing, car seats, strollers, etc.
We also offer services and programs for fathers and extended family caregivers. The parenting classes we provide are not only utilized by our clients, but we now receive referrals from Highland County Children’s Services and the Highland County Court System.
The Center provides Abstinence Education in the five Highland County School Systems and the Highland County Christian School. One Abstinence Educator has now expanded to multiple educators.
In 2007 when the program began in the schools, Highland County ranked 4th in the State of Ohio for teen pregnancy. The county now ranks 29th.
All of the services provided by the SOPC are free of charge.
What Is Our Goal?
Our goal is to encourage women to examine all their options so they can make an informed decision that would be best for themselves, their families, and their babies. At the Center, we listen and understand. We care for the baby, the mother, and the family.
We will continue with the following:
- Defend the message of life.
- Educate and change generational life patterns through the presentation of factual information to promote strong and healthy families.
Statement of Principle
The SOPC is committed to the following:
- Providing clients with accurate and complete information about both prenatal development and abortion.
- Confidentiality and integrity in dealing with clients, earning their trust and providing promised information and services. The SOPC denounces any form of deception in its corporate advertising or individual conversations with its clients.
- To assist women as they make life-affirming decisions and provide emotional support and practical assistance, through the provision of God’s people and the community at large.
- No discrimination because of race, color, creed, national origin, marital status or age.
- Not to recommend a provider or refer for abortions or abortifacients.
- To offer assistance in all areas with no monetary gain.
- Promote abstinence until marriage. The SOPC does not recommend, provide or refer single women for contraceptives. (Married women seeking contraceptive information are urged to seek counsel, along with their husbands, from their minister and physician.)
- The SOPC recognizes the validity of adoption as one alternative to abortion, but is not biased toward adoption when compared to the other life-saving alternatives. The SOPC is independent of adoption agencies, relating to them in the same manner as to other helpful referral sources. The SOPC does not receive payment of any kind from these agencies, does not enter into contractual relationships with them. The SOPC does not initiate nor facilitate independent adoption, though it may refer for independent adoptions.
- Creating awareness in the community regarding the affects of abortion on all family members.
Statement of Faith
The SOPC believes:
- The Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God.
- There is one God who exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- The deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His atoning death on the cross, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father and His personal return in power and glory.
- The Holy Spirit transforms the lives of those who are lost in sin and that salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
- The Holy Spirit dwells in the Christian and enables him/her to live a godly life and to perform good works.
- In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
