On a summer day in a quiet neighborhood outside Houston, Pam Whitehead is sitting at the kitchen table of a split-level home, taking calls from women who are pregnant and need help.
“We were preparing for this in advance,” Whitehead says. “We knew this was coming, we anticipated it, and we knew that we needed to prepare to be able to serve women.”
Whitehead is the executive director of ProLove Ministries, a group that opposes abortion and tries to persuade women not to have them. She says calls to her group’s hotline have been increasing – first, starting about a year ago, after the law known as S.B. 8 banned most abortions in Texas after about six weeks. They’ve continued – and come from across the country – since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
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