Scanlon appointed PDHC president

Kathy Scanlon has been appointed president of Pregnancy Decision Health Centers (PDHC). She had been interim president since Julie Moore stepped down from that position in February to spend more time with her family.

Scanlon has been a key member of PDHC’s leadership team since 2016. Announcing her appointment, board chairman Ron Thomas said, “Kathy is a highly qualified, Christian leader and is strategic and creative in her approach to problem solving. Just as important, Kathy has a relentless drive to save the unborn and to move the central Ohio Christian faith community to action in support of our mission.”

“With so much changing, there are still some things that don’t change, like PDHC’s 39-year commitment to serve our community,” Scanlon said. “Women still need support to choose life for their unborn children and God still provides for them through PDHC.”

PDHC, founded in 1981, is a nonprofit organization that empowers individuals to make healthy life choices. Last year, it served more than 12,000 people with a 24-hour hotline, three Columbus centers and one Lancaster center. Women and families have received free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, life-affirming consultations, diapers and clothing while visiting PDHC nearly 138,000 times since its opening. More than 90 percent of women who see and hear their babies’ heartbeats on ultrasounds at PDHC choose life.

PDHC is sponsoring a socially distanced Walk for Life Week from Friday, July 18 to Saturday, July 26. Participants may register online and walk or run any distance in their neighborhoods or local parks as an individual, family or small group and ask friends and family to pledge their support.

PDHC also is a key partner for central Ohio parishes in association with the U.S.  Conference of Catholic Bishops’ nationwide effort titled “Walking with Moms in Need: A Year of Service,” marking the 25th anniversary year of Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae. The effort runs through March 25, 2021.

For more information about PDHC, call (614) 888-8774 or visit www.pdhc.org. Its 24-hour hotline is (614) 444-4411.