May 22, 2024
“Idaho has been a home to many pro-life champions, and tonight’s results mean that new leaders are on the move,” said SFLAction’s Kristan Hawkins. “The fight to protect Life is never truly over, as we see with the Biden Administration’s lawsuit against Idaho in the Supreme Court. That’s why more than ever we need strong pro-life champions who can hold the line for life in my new home state.”
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Boise, Idaho (05-22-2024) – Students for Life Action (SFLAction) celebrates the election of SIX pro-life leaders in Idaho’s state House and Senate primary races. SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins said, “Idaho has led the way with pro-life protections and defense of the preborn, and last night’s victories only strengthens the pro-life coalition that exists in Idaho. My new home state made their voices heard tonight – the result is that preborn children and expecting mothers can know that strong-on-life legislators are ready for the November election.”
Numerous successful candidates returned the Students for Life Action Candidate Survey and pledged to vote pro-life 100%, including:
Senate District 8 – Christy Zito
Senate District 9 – Brandon Shippy
Senate District 10 – Tammy Nichols
Senate District 13 – Brian Lenney
Senate District 20 – Josh Keyser
House District 8A – Robert Beiswenger
SFLAction remains active in Idaho, even though the state has strong pro-life laws on the books, which began in 2022 when Governor Brad Little signed the Defense of Life Act after the Dobbs decision. In that time, we’ve supported the following efforts to the state’s pro-life laws:
- In January 2023, SFLAction supported the introduction of the Clean Water for All Life Act, to combat dumping of potentially dangerous chemicals into our water supply through human remains who will killed via Chemical Abortion Pills. These pills contain “endocrine disruptors” that interfere with a body’s hormones and are linked with developmental, reproductive, brain, immune system functions as well as tainting our food supply and harming livestock.
READ: Urge Legislators to support the Clean Water For All Life Act in Idaho!
- In January 2024, SFLAction engaged lawmakers and voters in the state capital as part of a lobby day effort, generating awareness and support for the Clean Water for All Life Act.
READ: Recapping Students for Life Actions Lobbying Day Efforts in Over a Dozen States
Additionally, SFLAction rallied in support of Idaho at the United States Supreme Court as it heard arguments in State of Idaho v. United States,. The case centers around a regulation called EMTALA — the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act – designed to require hospitals to stabilize all patients in the emergency room, regardless of their ability to pay. This law is being hijacked by the Biden Administration to change a regulation to force states that respect preborn life to commit abortions in emergency rooms.
READ: Students for Life of America Rallying at Supreme Court in Protest of the Biden Administration’s Weaponization of Federal Policy by Forcing Abortion into Emergency Rooms
Leading up to the election, SFLAction sent out 65,064 text messages, and made 38,952 phone calls across eleven targeted districts.
“The pro-life winners tonight deserve congratulations on well fought race, and we look forward to supporting their candidacy this fall in the general election,” said Hawkins. “Idaho has fought hard for life, and I believe despite the desperate attempts by the radically pro-abortion Biden Administration, the abortion industrial complex will lose in the end.”
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The Pro-Life Generation (PLG) is an umbrella organization encompassing the most-cutting edge engagement opportunities for a Vote Pro-Life First Community. PLG includes Students for Life Action (SFLAction), a 501c4, along with its 501c3 sister organization, Students for Life of America (SFLA), that together make up the nation’s largest, pro-life youth organization, managing a grassroots political and policy operation engaging Americans of all ages but with a special emphasis on the largest segment of voters — the Youth Vote. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, PLG/SFLA/SFLAction serves more than 1,400 groups on middle, high school, college, medical, and law school campuses in all 50 states. Our team has more conversations with this generation targeted by the abortion lobby than any other pro-life operation in the world, each week reaching more than 4 million across social media platforms and averaging 1.3 million video views. In addition to SFLA/SFLAction, PLG leads multiple initiatives to lead and serve the future of the pro-life movement including the Campaign for Abortion Free Cities, Standing With You, and the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement . Over more than 17 years, PLG CEO Kristan Hawkins has grown the operation into a nearly $20M organization, now preparing for an abortion-free America.