December 4, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY: SFLAction to be outside the Supreme Court as U.S. v. Skrmetti arguments take place
“Planned Parenthood’s new business model will be front and center in U.S. v. Skrmetti, as grown-ups in states like Tennessee step in to protect children’s fertility from quick sales of sterilizing treatments,” said SFLAction’s Kristan Hawkins. “Planned Parenthood wants a quick sale today, while the adults in the room care about children’s long-term welfare.”
WASHINGTON D.C. (12-04-2024) – A Students for Life Action (SFLAction) team member will join those outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday as arguments begin in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case addressing whether Tennessee can limit drugs & procedures given to minors to allegedly impact their gender, “puberty blockers and hormone therapy” that can have the impact of permanently sterilizing them. While the media has focused on the ACLU attorney chosen to argue the case, a transgender lawyer, at stake is whether states like Tennessee can protect children’s future fertility by saying no to the experimental protocols with “no good evidence” for their use.. “As I’ve written before, Planned Parenthood isn’t going out of business since the Dobbs decision, they’re transitioning — into a mega provider of concoctions known to sterilize children. The ugly reality of adults hastily dosing teens in ways known to create life-time issues represents cruel neglect of their hope and future,” said SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins. “Reports of reckless and speedy approval for dangerous protocols should make every state official concerned, especially since Planned Parenthood proudly notes they are the second largest ‘provider of hormone’ manipulation.”
READ: Planned Parenthood Isn’t On The Way Out, It’s Transitioning To Gender-Bending
Writing for National Review, Carrie Campbell Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network observed: “The question before the Court is whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1), which bars risky gender-transition interventions for minors, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Two years after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Court is being asked to make up a constitutional rule to take another area of contentious policy away from the people and their elected representatives. The Court of the past sometimes could not resist taking that bait, but the current Court has a much better sense when it comes to legally baseless power grabs.”
The harms of the alleged treatments justifies saying NO to dosing minors, Severino notes, as she continues: “Even before getting to the dramatic step of surgery, as Endocrine Society guidelines admit, the effects of puberty blockers include diminished bone density, undeveloped sex organs, threats to brain maturation, and ‘compromised fertility if the person subsequently is treated with sex hormones.’ Those hormones additionally increase risks of cerebrovascular disease and cancer. A number of gender-dysphoric minors are also fluid in their identified gender and eventually wish to detransition, but they are limited in their ability to reverse the effects of treatments they already received. There is mounting testimony of harm from detransitioners, which prompted European health authorities to tighten their restrictions, and nearly half the states in the U.S. have imposed restrictions similar to Tennessee’s to protect minors.”
READ: Teenage Detransitioner To Congress: I Lost Part of Future Womanhood Due to “Medical Scandal” Peddled by Planned Parenthood & Others
In writing about the Biden-Harris Administration policies to allow such dangerous and controversial “treatment,” Hawkins noted in 2022: “Consider that the human brain is not fully matured until age 25, which makes Biden’s interest in isolating teens to fast-track unalterable abortions or body changes severe negligence. Many people at 25, 35 or beyond regret decisions made in haste at 15. We should not experiment with people’s futures.”
SFLAction has engaged in a number of educational campaigns on regulation and policy changed that make children vulnerable to a predatory business model
READ: Protect our kids from Planned Parenthood. Abortion, sterilization, puberty blockers, and promiscuous “sex education” programs are being marketed to minors by America’s abortion giant.
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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 nearly $20M organization, now preparing for an abortion-free America.
