The Sacramento Life Center, a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) licensed health clinic, is a unique community resource for pregnant women and their families. Since 1973 abortion has been legal up to and through nine months of pregnancy. We believe that parents making a decision about abortion need and deserve complete information so that they can make an informed decision—whether to choose parenting, adoption or abortion.

Founded in 1972 as the Sacramento Right to Life Committee, our name was changed in 1987 to the Sacramento Life Center. The organization has grown from a small cadre of volunteers who operated a telephone hotline and staffed a Speakers’ Bureau to two licensed health clinics currently in operation. One clinic is located in midtown Sacramento, and, in 2010, we "rolled out" our Mobile Pregnancy Clinic. This clinic on wheels is a 32-foot retrofitted RV which we can park in venues throughout the Sacramento area providing us with the flexibility to offer resources and services to many more people.

Our two clinics offer medical-grade pregnancy testing, education, peer counseling, non-diagnostic ultrasounds, and extensive referral and networking with nonprofit organizations in our community. Click Here

We welcome and work with over 1,100 women and men every year. Some of the pregnant women who come to the Life Center do make a decision to have an abortion. At the Life Center, we never judge that decision. Instead, we remain open and welcoming to anyone who has been involved in a past abortion. We offer them help, healing, support and resources if they are suffering such emotions as blame, shame, guilt, or anger. Oftentimes women and men who have been involved in a past abortion wait for years to even tell one person about the abortion. We can also provide referrals for 1:1 counseling or therapy if needed.

In addition to operating two clinics, the Life Center also has a well-established Education Outreach Program that focuses on educating students in grades 7–10. Our program is called "Get R.E.A.L." which stands for "Real Education About Life." We are regularly invited to speak in public and private schools to educate students about choices and character needed to succeed in life.

In addition to the educational outreach, the Life Center staff and volunteers welcome opportunities to participate in many community events and fairs throughout the year, including UC Davis Picnic Day, Headstart Picnics, Placerville County Fair, Convoy of Hope, Roseville Operation Stand Down, Oak Park Health & Safety Fair, Cesar Chavez Youth Leadership Day and many more.

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The "business model" for the Sacramento Life Center is admittedly counter-intuitive. Unlike most businesses, certainly including the nonprofit world, we have no source of revenue, even though our annual budget is over $550,000.00. In addition all of our services are free and we have never asked for or received any government funding. We do not request or require medical insurance. We are funded entirely by voluntary donations from individuals and organizations who believe in our ability to make a strong, positive, difference in our community.

The Sacramento Life Center is not affiliated with a religious denomination, although we are proud to honor the small group of Catholics who founded the Life Center in 1972. We know that many people’s faith has formed their conscience about valuing the inherent dignity and rights of EVERY human person, no matter how small or fragile. Our donors come from many faith traditions and no faith tradition. Nat Hentoff, retired long-time writer for the Village Voice, a self-described "Jewish, atheist, civil libertarian, left-wing, pro-lifer," wrote in 1992:

"Yet being without theology isn’t the slightest hindrance to being pro-life. As any obstetrics manual—Williams Obstetrics-- for example, points out, there are two patients involved, and the one not yet born should be given the same meticulous care by the physician that we long have given the pregnant woman. Nor biologically does it make any sense to draw life or death lines at viability. It misses a crucial point to say that the extermination (of this fetus) can take place because the brain has not yet functioned or because that thing is not yet a "person." Whether the life is cut off in the fourth week or the fourteenth, the victim is one of our species, and has been from the start."

The Sacramento Life Center does not contribute to political campaigns, individual candidates, political parties, or ballot initiatives. All donations are used to fulfill our mission of empowering women and men to choose LIFE for their preborn children.

Most of the pregnant women and their boyfriends/husbands who come to our clinics know that a life-altering decision lies ahead of them. Their life is profoundly changed by being involved in a pregnancy regardless if they choose parenting, adoption or abortion, and we are passionately committed to help them make an informed decision about these three choices.

Many of our clients are similar to a description in a January 2011 column by Ross Douthat that appeared in New York Times. He describes them as "the kind of young people our culture sets adrift—working class and undereducated, with weak support networks, few authority figures, and no script for sexual maturity beyond the easily neglected admonition to always use a condom."

The great majority of our clients have real, systemic, and oftentimes serious challenges in their lives. But that is precisely why the Sacramento Life Center exists—to be that welcoming, compassionate, professional, and effective resource for women or men involved in a pregnancy they do not know if they can support.

At the Sacramento Life Center we welcome anyone worried about an unplanned or unsupported pregnancy. Our goal is to enable them to make a REAL choice in a safe, compassionate, non-judgmental place that has no financial gain from the decision they make! Most of our clients intuitively know, even if they don’t always articulate it, that human life begins at conception. That knowledge does not come from a religious, political, or moral belief but rather it comes from a scientific and biological FACT.

We at the Sacramento Life Center know that pre-born human life is tiny, fragile, and temporarily dependent on its mother for food, water, and housing. But so is a newborn baby. As a matter of fact, a teenager is also dependent on his or her parents for food, water and housing. And often those who are elderly are dependent on their children. Human life has inherent dignity no matter its age or home address.

The Sacramento Life Center is proud to be a part of helping thousands of women and men make an informed choice about their preborn children.