Republican Tennessee Rep. Diana Harshbarger is reintroducing the Pregnancy.gov Act to create a website that provides women with a range of pregnancy and post-natal resources, from adoption information and tax preparation to domestic violence services, based on nothing more than their zip code.
The website, Pregnancy.gov, would be at no-net cost to the government as it would pull together preexisting private and public resources from the local, state and federal level to make a single, cohesive platform for women in need. Pregnancy.gov will not require women and families needing assistance to enter any specific information besides their zip code to find public and private resources available to them.
The co-sponsors of the act are Republican Reps. Brian Babin and Dan Crenshaw of Texas, Rich McCormick of Georgia, Sheri Biggs of South Carolina and Scott Fitzgerald of Wisconsin.
Nearly 88% of women who had abortions in 2022 were unmarried. Mothers with unexpected pregnancies may be in fear of whether they can get support during pregnancy and after the child is born, a press release from Harshbarger's office says. No mother should ever have to feel alone...
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