May 30, 2025
SAVING LIVES, TAKE TWO: Student for Life Action To Focus on 12 GOP Senators as the Big, Beautiful Bill Advances
“The grassroots energy that blanketed the nation as the U.S. House debated our nation’s budget will be focused on GOP members in the U.S. Senate. From their districts to their offices in Washington D.C., the Pro-Life Generation won’t rest until abortion vendors like Planned Parenthood are told to go fund themselves,” said Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins. “It makes no sense to talk about baby boom payments or support for the highly troubled IVF industry while we are propping up disreputable abortion vendors with our tax money. It’s time for the GOP to pick a lane.”
SFLAction will rally support nationwide but will focus on 12 key GOP Senators.
WASHINGTON D.C. (05-30-2025) – Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins said that a month-long mobilization would run through the month of June, focusing on 12 GOP Senators in particular, as the Big, Beautiful Bill has passed into Republican hands, following the U.S. House’s successful handoff. “Our message to our friends is simple: No matter what your concerns, work to get the House language in the Senate budget. That means cutting off Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion from our healthcare spending in the base text of the bill and for a minimum of 10 years,” Hawkins continued. “Yes, there are many issues facing our nation, but don’t throw more than 400,000 babies out with the federal budget bathwater.”
In Planned Parenthood’s recently released annual report, the nation’s largest abortion vendor and distributor of sterilizing, wrong-sex hormones said that they had ended 402,200, while taking $792.2 million in scarce taxpayer dollars.
“Students for Life Action will score the Big, Beautiful Bill vote, which is unusual for a large spending bill, but in this case, lives are on the line,” said Hawkins. “Our target list of U.S. Senators represents friends and sometimes foes, all of whom are expressing reluctance on the need to set aside our differences to prioritize getting abortion vendors out of our healthcare spending. Pregnancy is not a disease cured by abortion,” said Hawkins. “Our friends in the U.S. Senate need to know that pro-life voters will not forgive and forget the continued waste of our resources on Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion.”
Our Senate focus will include the following, noting their score on the Pro-Life Generation Report Card where legislators’ scores are ranked from A+ to F-: (In alphabetical order)
U.S. Sen. Shelley Capito, WV: B-
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, ME: F
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, WI: B
U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, UT: A
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, KY: B+
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, AK: F
U.S. Rand Paul, KY: B-
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, FL: A+
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, AK: C
U.S. Senate Leader John Thune, SD: A
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, NC: B+
U.S. Sen. Todd Young, IN: C
As we reported earlier, the Pro-Life Generation is committed to cutting abortion vendors out of healthcare spending.
As part of our budget campaign, SFLAction spearheaded an Emergency “Defund Planned Parenthood” Webcast, with leading Pro-Life voices, calling for the end of forced funding of abortion vendors through the current reconciliation process.
That followed an impressive event on Capitol Hill as pro-life leaders from across the country joined a Defund Planned Parenthood & ALL Abortion Vendors media event, as well as a lobby day, letting Members of Congress know that their pro-life voters were fully engaged.
WATCH HERE: Students for Life of America Draws National Coverage to its Defund Planned Parenthood Across America Events
A few campaign highlights of the Pro-Life Generation’s Effort to Protect LIFE in the Budget:
+ Kristan Hawkins Lays Out a Case for Trump Defunding Planned Parenthood in Recent Washington Times Op-ed: “Stop Funding Your Political Enemies”
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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 1,500 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 more than $20M organization, now preparing for an abortion-free America.