These non-profits exist for one purpose: to welcome women in crisis with compassion, dignity, and hope. Yet this bill treats them as if they are a threat to be punished rather than a lifeline to be protected. This bill strikes at their very identity. It restricts their speech, burdens their ministry, and punishes them for their beliefs. It is a politically motivated attempt to silence religious non‑profits simply because they do not perform or refer for abortions. 

A1679 targets only non‑profit pregnancy resource centers. Not hospitals. Not clinics. Not corporations. Only the small, volunteer‑driven ministries that open their doors to women who feel alone, afraid, or abandoned. These centers are motivated by faith, by conscience, and by a deep conviction that every woman deserves support—not pressure and not judgment, but real help.

These centers are the ones who sit with a woman while she cries, offers diapers to a mother who has run out, and throw baby showers for expectant mothers to make sure they have all the material support they need for their child.

Why does the State of New Jersey want to limit their ability to let women know that they exist to serve them?