April 13, 2021
“Children survive abortion attempts on their lives,” said SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins. “It is long past time for Congress to protect these children from infanticide. A successful discharge petition is needed to overcome the corruption of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Party, who have not allowed these protective measures to see the light of day.”
WASHINGTON D.C. (04-13-2021) – TODAY, Students for Life Action (SFLAction) will mobilize in multiple states to urge key Members of Congress to sign a discharge petition that would facilitate a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The petition requires 218 signatures to be successful — and SFLAction’s mobilization is aimed at securing the signatures needed.
“There should be bipartisan consensus around condemning infanticide,” said Kristan Hawkins, President of SFLAction. “SFLAction will be scoring whether or not Members of Congress sign the discharge petition to break the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act out of Nancy Pelosi’s legislative jail. Protecting children from infanticide is not up for debate.”
According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, approximately 12,000 abortions are carried out on children who have achieved the gestational benchmark of viability. Children born late in pregnancy during a botched abortion may be able to survive and thrive if given a chance. There are documented examples of this occurring, and some survivors, including Melissa Ohden, Gianna Jessen, Claire Culwell, and Josiah Pressley, have publicly shared their stories.
Grassroots mobilizations will take place at the offices of:
- Congressman James Langevin in Warwick, Rhode Island
- Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger in Spotsylvania, Virginia
- Congressman Conor Lamb in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Congressman Matt Cartwright in Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Congressman Henry Cuellar in San Antonio, Texas
For more information about why SFLAction is scoring legislators on signing the Born-Alive discharge petition or to inquire about today’s local SFLAction mobilizations, contact Kristi Hamrick at [email protected].
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Students for Life Action (SFLAction) is the 501c4 sister organization of Students for Life of America (SFLA), the nation’s largest, pro-life, student organization with more than 1,240 groups on middle, high school, and university campuses in all 50 states. Students for Life has more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry every day, week, and year than any other pro-life outreach in the world and mobilizes the Pro-Life Generation to confront abortion at the local, state and national levels daily. Every week, Students for Life entities reach more than 2 million people across social media platforms to have nearly 200,000 digital conversations with the most engaged pro-life online audience in the world.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) is the nation’s largest, pro-life, youth organization. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, SFLA serves more than 1,240 groups on college and university, middle and high school, medical and law school campuses in all 50 states. Student pro-life organizations work to confront policies on their campuses to support pregnant and parenting students, to end Planned Parenthood’s relationships with schools and communities, and to change minds of their peers about abortion. SFLA has more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry every day, week, and year than any other pro-life entity.