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Our Heart Has Always been with the Woman

It is our mission to empower her choice for life. 

We work to create a culture where abortion is unthinkable by strategically addressing the demand for abortion, and we address the demand for abortion by reaching and serving the at-risk woman through prevention, intervention, and extension.

A glimpse into our past:

  • 1987

    Mary Taylor Michaels leads efforts to start Mississippi’s first Crisis Pregnancy Center.
  • 1988

    First official board meeting, first prayer dedication, and first 79 clients seen by June. Space was purchased in yellow pages for $232/per month.
  • 1989

    CPC moves to north president street.
  • 1992

    Barbara Beavers becomes director of CPC.
  • 1993

    CPC hosts its first post-abortive bible study and the name changes to Center for Pregnancy Choices Jackson Metro Area.
  • 1997

    The Clinton location opens for the first time.
  • 1999

    The Pearl location opens, and Janine Mangum becomes the director.
  • 2000

    The Medical Clinic opens in Pearl and CPC Metro gets their first sonogram machine.
  • 2002

    CPC Metro hosts its first life skills classes.
  • 2003

    CPC Metro gets a cellphone, laptop, and video camera.
  • 2004

    Jay Tea Leggett and Marlene Cline join staff full-time.
  • 2005

    CPC Metro gets a copy machine, phone system, and computer printer.
  • 2010

    CPC Metro merges and Moves to Office Park Plaza.
  • 2016

    The Fondren Initiative begins.
  • 2017

    The Fondren clinic opens 100 yards from the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. Barbara Beavers retires, and Erin Kate Goode becomes executive director. Dr. Gregory Vance becomes medical director.
  • 2018

    CPC Metro’s focus is placed back on the abortion-minded woman and CPC Metro begins truly competing with the pink house.
  • 2019

    The Cline Center opens. Google ads begin to run for abortion-related search terms. By the end of July 2019, The Cline Center sees more at-risk women than in the entire previous year of 2018.
  • 2021

    The Pregnancy Resource Act is passed by the Mississippi legislature.
  • 2022

    Roe v. Wade is overturned. The Pink House closes! Decades of prayer answered.

  • 2023

    The Pregnancy resource act tax credit is increased and CPC Metro and the Cline Center move to a new location on Lakeland Drive.

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CPC Metro

CPC Metro is proud of its past and excited for our future. We can see God moving in big, unprecedented ways to create a culture of life in our state and far beyond.

We believe in a woman-focused, relational, and transformational ministry.

We believe that we are called higher for such a time as this, and we are gratefully calling her higher, calling the pro-life community higher, and calling the church higher. 

Partner with Us

We can build a culture of life, together.