March 26, 2026
Testimony Offered in Support of AZ House Bill 2060 to Prevent Pro-Abortion Propaganda in Schools.
“Parents don’t send their children to school to be indoctrinated to end the lives of their future grandchildren,” said Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “And students need to know that their lives are valuable, that there is hope and a future for them and for their future children. As I travel across the country, I’ve seen how discouraged this generation has become, questioning whether their lives are valuable or disposable. The mindset of a culture of death must be stripped out of our taxpayer funded schools, where we should celebrate potential and not push death by abortion.”
PHOENIX, ARIZ. (03-26-2026) – Students for Life of America (SFLA) William Wilberforce Fellow Danise Rees testified today at the Arizona statehouse in support of the Students for Life Action (SFLAction)-championed “Abortion and Education Act” (HB2060), introduced by Pro-Life Champion Rep. Rachel Keshel, to stop Big Abortion’s infiltration into public school curriculum by prohibiting public schools from encouraging or committing abortions.
“Our public schools should exist to educate, support, and empower students—not to funnel them into the predatory abortion industry,” Rees testified.
If signed into law, the “Abortion and Education Act” would stop abortion vendors from providing curriculum and promoting abortion in public educational institutions, including elementary through high schools, community colleges, and universities.
Rees detailed to the committee how many of her peers feel “trapped” during unplanned pregnancy, unaware of the support systems available to them. “When institutions only point students in one direction, it should not surprise us when they feel trapped,” Reese said. “Our students deserve better than abortion propaganda disguised as education or healthcare. They deserve real support, and they deserve to know that their lives and the lives of their children matter. They deserve the truth.”
According to a January Students for Life’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement poll released and conducted by Survey USA, after learning about allegations of misconduct by Planned Parenthood, nearly half (46%) of the Youth Vote would support a federal investigation for potential debarment of Planned Parenthood, with only 27% opposing. Half of youth voters believe federally funded healthcare providers that don’t commit abortions and offer the real healthcare services Planned Parenthood claims to provide can replace Planned Parenthood.
Arizona law limits abortion at viability, except in cases of life or health of the mother. Arizona law defines viability as “the point in pregnancy when, in the good faith judgement of a treating health care professional and based on the particular facts of the case, there is a significant likelihood of the fetus’s sustained survival outside of the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures.”
Here is what the HB2060 will do in Arizona:
- Prevent public educational institutions (elementary through high schools, community colleges, and universities) under the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) from allowing abortion vendors or organizations that refer patients for abortions to:
- Provide instruction in health education.
- Display or distribute health education materials.
- Provide school employees with curriculum.
- Withhold state aid from schools that do not comply within 90 days of a violation notice, via the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The “Abortion and Education Act” does not apply to standard contraceptives or procedures necessary to save the life of the mother. Pro-life doctors and medical professionals have been very clear that an abortion designed to end a baby’s life would not be employed for the purpose of saving the life of the mother; though in maternal-fetal separation, performed in an attempt to save both lives, the baby may not live after delivery. LEARN MORE HERE.
SFLAction is encouraging pro-life students and volunteers to join us in calling on Senate leadership to push the “Abortion and Education Act” forward for a floor vote.
SFLAction’s push to get the “Abortion and Education Act” introduced and passed is part of our larger Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap. Launched last November, this legislative package built upon the Gonzales v. Carhart case will help take down abortion at the state and federal level.
TO LEARN ABOUT STUDENTS FOR LIFE ACTION’S “MAKE AMERICA PRO-LIFE AGAIN ROADMAP,” CLICK HERE.
SFLAction has been extremely active in legislative sessions throughout the past several years, educating voters and engaging lawmakers. During the Spring 2025 legislative session in states across America, SFLAction:
- Tracked and monitored over 1,100 abortion-related bills
- Drove efforts on 25 pro-life and pro-abortion bills across 16 states
- Introduced 20 SFLAction-inspired bills
- Testified in committees in five states: Arkansas, Maine, Montana, Texas, and West Virginia
- Visited offices of more than 100 state AND federal lawmakers
- Equipped more than 6,000 student leaders to engage in visiting more than 100,000 homes in 27 states and urge voters to tell their lawmakers to support pro-life legislation
- Engaged with hundreds of millions of constituents around the country
- Sent over 2,300,000+ personal text messages in support of pro-life bills
- Made 750,000+ phone calls to pro-life constituents
- Generated 20,000+ emails and 750,000+ calls from pro-life constituents to their legislators
- Sent 150,000+ mailers in seven states
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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 1,400 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.