IN-DEPTH: Trafficking Survivor Says She Owes Her Life to a Pro-Life Pregnancy Center, Sues to Keep Them Open

When a pregnant Jean Marie Davis made her escape from sex trafficking, she found the support she needed at a pro-life pregnancy center. Now, as the executive director of Branches Pregnancy Resource Center in Vermont, she is challenging a law that she says unfairly targets pregnancy centers like hers.

Executive Director Jean Marie Davis stands in front of Branches Pregnancy Resource Center in Brattleboro, Vt., on Aug. 24, 2023. Branches Pregnancy Resource Center

When Jean Marie Davis, a victim of sex trafficking, made her harrowing escape, she was turned away by dozens of shelters that found her situation too severe to offer her refuge.

Pregnant, with barely a dollar to her name, she eventually found safety at a shelter in New Hampshire. But it is a nearby pregnancy center that she credits with saving her life.