June 9, 2022
“These are incredible, pro-life candidates who are not afraid to go against their party when it means saving preborn lives,” said Dustin Curtis, SFLAction Executive Director. “We are looking forward to working with these pro-life champions as the fight to abolish abortion in the states is crucial in a post-Roe America. We are grateful for pro-life leaders like State Representative Jeff Shipley and SFLAction’s Montana State Captain, Kaitlyn Ruch, who are willing to defend life from the moment of conception.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (06-09-2022) – Students for Life Action (SFLAction) congratulated Rep. Jeff Shipley (R-IA) and Kaitlyn Ruch for their primary wins in the states of Iowa and Montana. SFLAction noted these wins are key victories for the preborn, highlighting Shipley’s pro-life record in Iowa and Ruch’s student leadership in Montana as a Students for Life Action Captain.
Kaitlyn Ruch
SFLAction and its state-affiliated PAC in Montana engaged in both races, reaching 1,448 voters through door knocking, 1,264 through text campaigns, and 1,376 over the phone in Montana with an additional 366 doors knocked, 50,430 calls made, and 10,783 text messages sent in Iowa’s primaries.
“These are incredible, pro-life candidates who are not afraid to go against their party when it means saving preborn lives,” said Dustin Curtis, SFLAction Executive Director. “We are looking forward to working with these pro-life champions as the fight to abolish abortion in the states is crucial in a post-Roe America. We are grateful for pro-life leaders like State Representative Jeff Shipley and SFLAction’s Montana State Captain Kaitlyn Ruch who are willing to defend life from the moment of conception.”
SFLAction has previously commended Shipley’s concerted efforts to take a stand against Chemical Abortion with the introduction of HF 331 in Iowa. Shipley worked tirelessly to get a vote on a Chemical Abortion Ban that would help protect women from risky drugs and save preborn lives.
Ruch, a Students for Life of America alum, moves on in her race as the youngest Member fighting for Montana House District 84. At the age of 18, Ruch was a Students for Life State Captain in Montana and brings a wealth of knowledge of pro-life laws with her on the campaign trail. The pro-life issue is near and dear to her as she has spoken from her experience of being adopted and given a chance to live life.
Read more on SFLAction’s plan for a Post-Roe America HERE, HERE, and HERE
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Students for Life Action (SFLAction), a 501c4, along with its 501c3 sister organization, Students for Life of America (SFLA), make up the nation’s largest pro-life youth organization and a political and policy operation engaging people of all ages. Together they work to end abortion — the human rights issue of our day — and provide political, legal, and community support for women and their children, born and preborn. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, SFLA has more than 1,250 groups on middle, high school, college, university, medical, and law school campuses in all 50 states. SFLA creates strategy, policy, and programming to connect those most targeted for abortion with people ready to help and builds a framework for political engagement on their behalf. SFLA and SFLAction have more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry than any other pro-life outreach in the world, reaching more than 2 million people across social media platforms each week and engaging in approximately 100,000 digital conversations per month. Over more than 15 years, President Kristan Hawkins has grown SFLAction/SFLA into an $18 million organization preparing for a Post-Roe America.