Heartbeat International is the first network of pro-life pregnancy help organizations founded in the U.S. (1971), and it is now the most expansive network in the world. Heartbeat has over 3,600 affiliated pregnancy help loctions - including pregnancy help medical clinics (with ultrasound), resource centers, maternity homes, and adoption agencies - in more than 70 countries around the world to provide alternatives to abortion.

Heartbeat's Life-Saving Vision...

...is to make abortion unwanted today and unthinkable for future generations.

Heartbeat's Life-Saving Mission...

...is to Reach and Rescue as many lives as possible, around the world, through an effective network of life-affirming pregnancy help to Renew communities for LIFE.

To achieve our mission, we do the following:

We REACH those who are abortion-vulnerable through Option Line's® 24-hour contact center and cutting-edge website, www.OptionLine.org.

"Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me..." - Psalm 144:7

We RESCUE those who are reached through our life-support network of pregnancy centers providing true reproductive health care, ministry, education, and social services where lives are saved and changed.

"Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men; protect me from men of violence. " - Psalm 140:1

We RENEW broken cities around the world, by developing pregnancy centers where abortion clinics are the only alternative for abortion-vulnerable women.

"He sent me to bind up the brokenhearted...to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor... They will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations." - Isaiah 61:1-4

Heartbeat Principles:

• Heartbeat affiliates propose and offer, through education and creative services, positive choices for the woman challenged by pregnancy.
• Heartbeat affiliates shall not discriminate in their services on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, or marital status.
• Heartbeat affiliates’ services are personal, confidential, and non-judgmental.
• Heartbeat affiliates shall not advise, provide, or refer for abortion, abortifacients, or contraceptives.
• Heartbeat affiliates encourage chastity as a positive lifestyle choice.

Heartbeat Program Policies

• Heartbeat International does not promote abortion, abortifacients, or contraceptives.
• Heartbeat International does not promote birth control (devices or medications) for family planning, population control, or health issues, including disease prevention.
• Heartbeat International does promote God's Plan for our sexuality: marriage between one man and one woman, sexual intimacy, children, unconditional/unselfish love, and relationship with God must go together.
• Heartbeat International does promote sexual integrity/sexual purity before marriage and sexual integrity faithfulness within marriage.
• All Heartbeat International policies and materials are consistent with Biblical principles and with orthodox Christian (Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox) ethical principles and teaching on the dignity of the human person and sanctity of human life.

All Heartbeat centers must abide by Our Commitment of Care and Competence.