October 31, 2024
Whether Republicans win the White House and Congress next week or not, there’s little doubt that shoring up state level offices and legislatures to protect preborn lives matters a great deal. Removing pro-abortion candidates who refuse to support good pro-life legislation matters, too.
Case in point, Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins wrote an op-ed in Townhall explaining the case of the South Carolina “Sister Senators,” a collection of New York Times supported Republicans who joined with Democrats to block SFLAction backed legislation that would have protected preborn lives.
Leading up to the primary election, SFLAction made South Carolina its number one state for engagement for Legislative Primary Elections, activating in a year-long campaign to educate voters since the 2023 defeat of the Human Life Protection Act.
In the end, SFLAction succeeded, and those pro-abortion officials lost to pro-life candidates.
READ: Final Pro-Abortion “Sister Senator” Gets Taken Down in South Carolina Run-Off Victory
The successful strategy and methods in turning over pro-abortion Republicans who refuse to defend life is further explained in Hawkins’ latest Townhall op-ed:
“For more than 50 years, the American pro-life movement fought a primarily federal game of electing U.S. senators to later weigh in on Supreme Court nominations. At the same time, in select states around the country, strategic legislation moved toward the high court, for the hope of reconsidering the human rights injustice of Roe v. Wade. When that decades-long struggle came to a head in the summer of 2022 as the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe, too many tried to say that the battle was over. But it’s just the beginning.
While abortion is always federal as national regulations, mandates, and taxpayer dollars support it, the states are clearly also at play. What’s new now in this Post-Roe era is a necessary fight at the state level to address foxes in the pro-life henhouse: weak-on-life Republicans who gleefully campaigned and fundraised off a perceived commitment to defending life but who refused to act when the time came.
Students for Life Action (SFLAction) has worked around the country as America’s state houses now address abortion without Roe’s roadblock. But when pro-life words don’t result in pro-life deeds, today’s committed GOP voter wants better options.”
