November 20, 2024
Voters also Confused about Abortion Ballot Measures, as MOST Want MORE Restrictions Yet Voted Against Their Values:
More than Seven in 10 Voted Against Their Values: An Overwhelming Majority, 73%, Support Limits on Abortion.
Three out of Four (75%) Who Voted “No” on Ballot Initiatives Valued Limiting Abortion Before all Nine Months.
Almost Seven in 10 (66%) of Pro-Life identifying Voters Said Abortion was Their Top Issue When Voting.
Almost Six in 10 (59%) of Pro-Abortion Voters Said Abortion was Their Top Issue When Voting.
“Faced with confusing language and misinformation, voters who supported late-term abortion ballot referendums did so against their better judgment. Despite decades of abortion industry lobbying to sell a lie that no one is buying, the Demetree Institute for Advancement found in our survey of voters exiting poll locations that most young voters still want limits on abortion,” Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “With seven new states becoming late-term abortion destinations, the Pro-Life Generation will deploy several new strategies that will educate young voters & provide the tools they need to reverse the devastating impact of these extreme amendments to better reflect voter values.”
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WASHINGTON D.C. (11-20-2024) – The Pro-Life Generation’s (PLG) research arm, Demetree Institute for Advancement, conducted a survey of voters exiting polling locations on and around college campuses to determine the reasons for their abortion ballot measure votes. The data showed overwhelming support for abortion restrictions: three out of four youth voters in ballot referendum states said they didn’t want abortion up until nine months, with less than half of them voting “yes” on unrestricted abortion.
“All the money spent by a billion-dollar abortion machine has been a wrecking ball of false statements and fear-mongering to pressure voters to support abortion, but that doesn’t mean young voters want abortion up until birth,” said Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins. In fact, in talking with voters who prioritized abortion in their vote, more than half voted for LIFE rather than radical late-term abortion.
“This entire election season, we’ve been told that voters care about the abortion issue – and they do – but they didn’t want more abortion. Our survey of voters near college campuses is even more powerful when you consider that 57% self-identified as more pro-choice to 37 % who called themselves pro-life,” noted Hawkins.
A memo published at the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement reports that “Pro-abortion ballot referendums may have temporarily served as a one-trick pony to get out the vote for a lackluster Democratic candidate this round, but it only further galvanized the Pro-Life Movement with the truth we’ve known all along: the American people do not want more abortion.”
Consider other post-election polling. For voters who said that abortion was their most important issue, one in four went for President-Elect Trump over the most radical pro-abortion ticket in U.S. history. The Youth Vote – always presumed to be pro-abortion – also voted for Trump in record numbers.
TO READ THE ENTIRE REPORT, CLICK HERE.
For more on Students for Life Action’s engagement in abortion ballot states in this election cycle, read: Students for Life Action Celebrates the Defeat of Abortion Ballot Initiative in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota as Life WINS; But in States with New Mini-Roes, “We’ll be back”
SFLAction efforts included recruiting 200 Students for Life of America (SFLA) groups to participate in grassroots efforts with more than 530 (223 primaries, 340 general) volunteers.
The Pro-Life Generation was involved in 216 primary and general races, using a combination of direct voter engagement in 30 door-knocking deployments or digital & text campaigns in 17 states. In the end, pro-life champions won in 126 races.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR STATE LEVEL VICTORIES IN THE 2024 ELECTION, CLICK HERE
Throughout the 2024 election, pro-life organizations and groups were wildly outspent. The abortion industry’s abundance of advertising money, including $100 million in Florida, created an uphill battle. Earling this year, the House Democratic PAC launched a $100 million effort to advance late-term abortion ballot initiatives, and another Democratic group bragged they had launched a $25 million effort to target Trump on abortion.
LEARN MORE about the historical spending levels in this election, which also played a role.
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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.
