June 10, 2025
In a recent National Review op-ed, Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins demands “the GOP to tell Planned Parenthood and all abortion vendors to go fund themselves.”
She pushes GOP lawmakers to back up their pro-life promises by stripping funding for Planned Parenthood and abortion vendors from the budget, as well as using the budget reconciliation to make it happen.
“This shouldn’t be hard for the GOP. For decades, the party has talked about the pro-life values held by most of its voters,” said Hawkins. “For decades, it has fundraised on the issue. For decades, it has enjoyed the enthusiastic support of a grassroots army of volunteers.”
And to “keep faith with pro-life voters and decades of commitments,” she wants the GOP to turn “campaign words into legislative deeds.”
Hawkins points out that using the budget reconciliation process is now fully in Republican hands. With control of the House, Senate, and White House, she argues there are no excuses left for inaction.
Specifically, she calls on 12 senators – a dirty dozen – to advance the House-passed language that cuts abortion vendors from taxpayer funding and redirects resources toward providers who offer authentic, life-saving care.
“The buck stops with them, and not, for example, with the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, an unelected bureaucrat who killed a previous effort to redirect tax dollars to life-saving care,” continued Hawkins. “Voters sent GOP members of the Senate and House there to do what they promised.”