Hope’s Corner

Bringing Light to a Once-Darkened Venue

On the Mobile, AL, corner of Sage Avenue and Eslava Street you’ll find a three-story building that looks like many other modern office facilities. On the first floor, you’ll find the home of Claire’s Hope. It is a place with a darkened past and a shining future.

Hope’s Corner was once an abortion clinic. Here, frightened, confused and too-frequently un- and mis-informed women and parents chose to end the lives of the unborn. It was a place that, no doubt, had been criticized, cursed and, probably on occasion, praised for the services it performed.

When Tammy and Billy Cox learned their unborn second child was afflicted with a rare and un-curable disease, they were presented options, which included aborting the pregnancy. The Cox’s faith led them to choosing another path: giving birth to the child, a girl they named Claire, and placing her life and theirs in God’s hands.

Although Claire lived less than 60 days, about what the doctors had forecast, her short time made it abundantly clear to the Coxes that their choice for life and Claire’s hope were the right decisions for them.

During that ensuing year, the abortion clinic at Sage and Eslava shut its doors and the Coxes realized that God was opening a door and, perhaps, an unprecedented opportunity for them to make a statement on their experience and belief, as well as pay tribute to their daughter Claire. Exactly one year, to the day, after Claire passed from our world, the Coxes purchased the building where so many other lives had been ended.

And one year later, on November 28, 2008, Claire's Hope was opened to the public through the building at Hope's Corner, a memorial, a museum, a tribute and a place where women, couples and families affected by crisis pregnancies can get the information they need to honor the sanctity of human life.