November 6, 2024
Students for Life Action Welcomes Back a Winning Team Ready to Protect Life in Law and in Service, including Majorities in the U.S. House & U.S. Senate
“Those who say they want less federal engagement on the human rights issue of our day should put our money where their mouth is and stop funding abortions and the national, tax-payer funded operations pushing it,” said SFLAction’s Kristan Hawkins. “The Biden-Harris Administration weaponized federal agencies against pro-life Americans and in favor of abortion, with financial support infiltrating our federal budget. It’s time to untangle our finances and stop supporting an abortion industry that profits when lives end. And for those GOP leaders just now taking office, it’s not too soon to note that Planned Parenthood and company wanted you to lose so they could keep getting our money. Planned Parenthood can go fund themselves.”
WASHINGTON D.C. (11-06-2024) – After engaging in a national call to the Youth Vote to vote pro-life first, engaging in 156 competitive primary races and focusing on 12 states in the general election, Students for Life Action (SFLAction) welcomes a winning team to Washington D.C. and congratulates President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, and majorities in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House. SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins noted that pro-life voters had a clear choice in the election, as the most radical pro-abortion ticket in U.S. and World History took to the national stage promising only one thing for certain – more death by intentional abortion.
For our part, as Hawkins noted in an op-ed before the election, a gritty campaign for LIFE can make huge shifts … even on a tight budget. Hawkins noted: “It’s a necessary lesson that dozens of other politicians have learned this year. In total, across 156 competitive primary races where Students for Life Action was involved and educating voters, 86 unapologetically pro-life candidates won – including the defeat of dozens of incumbents. And we did it at a cost of $1,179 per candidate.”
With SFLAction’s strategic Get-Out-The-Vote model at play, we targeted the Youth Vote for pro-life wins. We can document almost 24,000 confirmed minds changed through outreach, which is especially impressive when considering that the “last two presidential elections were effectively decided by 78,000 and 44,000 votes, respectively,” as reports the Washington Post.
“Life wins, when fought for with courage and conviction. Too soon to tell you that we told you there’s no joy, no hope, and no future for an abortion-only campaign? But we’re ready to get to work. President Trump says he wants to end federal involvement with abortion, and we can do that,” said Hawkins.
“First, we need to get the right people in place to roll back the weaponized policies that have attacked pro-life people and abandoned mothers and their preborn children.
“Second, we need to defund Planned Parenthood. As long as federal money supports abortion vendors and pays for abortion at home and around the world, abortion IS federal. This includes reaffirming life-saving policies such as Mexico City, which can be signed into effect day one.
“Third, our federal government needs to support young families in the vital work of raising up the next generation.
“Fourth, we need to address the abortion issue in the legal framework in which we all now work – both federal and state – and the Pro-Life Generation has a plan we’re getting ready to launch to the nation.” ‘
“Fifth, we need to release the pro-life prayer warriors in prison because of the weaponized use of government by the Biden-Harris Administration.”
MEDIA ADVISORY: Stay Tuned for Details of a Tuesday, Nov. 12th Launch of the Mini-Roe Roll Back Plan – Not only is there a lot that can be done at the federal level … but there is also a roadmap for legislation even in state with new Mini-Roes at play.
ELECTION INTEGRITY IMPACTS ALL OF US: In those places where contentious legal action continues, (165 election lawsuits and counting, according to Bloomberg), the Pro-Life Generation will watch and pray for a life-affirming outcome. But we are also recruiting, to be ready on the ground if needed to defend those who are voiceless in this election.
Learn more here: With Life on the Line, Students for Life Action Begins Recruiting for our Election Integrity Team, Should Chaos Reign Post-Election
Email [email protected] for interviews or more information.
THIS WAS AN UNPRESCEDENTED YEAR FOR PRO-LIFE GENERTION – SFLACTION EFFORTS IN FIGHTING FOR HOPE & A FUTURE.
During the Primary & General Election season, the Pro-Life Generation pushed back against the pro-abortion lobby’s propaganda efforts by:
- Sending more than 1,714,645 texts
- Making more than 484,034 phone calls
- Launching 13 different vote-pro-life digital ad campaigns, resulting in more than 4,096,582 impressions and 23,982 confirmed voter minds changed. (NOTE, in a recent election cycle just 44,000 votes made the difference between who won and who lost the presidency.)
- Our ads were seen by young voters nearly one million times (989,149) and we reached over 375k young voters in key battleground states. In the key states of Arizona and Pennsylvania, 72% of young people that took our quiz pledged to vote pro-life first.
- Flyering 70 Targeted campuses in swing states
- Knocking on more than 100,000 doors
SFLAction also managed Ballot Initiatives campaigns, including Decline to Sign and Vote NO educational efforts, as well as a Too Extreme For Me campus tour at colleges and universities.
IN PRIMARIES, SFLAction focused on supporting pro-life champions in the GOP and worked to educate on the bad LIFE records of strategically chosen legislators, such as the South Carolina “Sister Senators,” three GOP state legislators who lost their primaries after blocking a pro-life law supported by SFLAction. That story was featured in a recent Wall Street Journal profile here.
Learn more here: Our Latest Op-Ed: Getting Rid of Foxes in the Pro-Life Henhouse
IN THE GENERAL, SFLAction emphasized the abortion extremism of the radical Harris-Walz Presidential Ticket and the fact that the leadership of the Democratic Party is lockstep for abortion without limits, taxpayer funded, up to the point of infanticide.
IN DIGITAL AND COMMERCIAL OUTREACH: A “Democrats for Infanticide” campaign, including a TV spot that ran in targeted and states and on FOX during the Vice-Presidential Debate, helped make the point that nothing is off the table for the Democratic Party if it is seen as benefiting the abortion industry. The ad commercial was also sent via digital outreach during the RNC convention.
Read more here: THIS WEEK ON FOX: Harris & Walz Record of Support for INFANTICIDE Highlighted in New Students for Life Action Commercial Buy
ON A MOBILE BILLBOARD TOUR: Other educational efforts included an Abortion Extremism Mobile Billboard tour, part of the Pro-Life Generation outreach. And the tour made the rounds during the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee events.
VIA GOP FOR LIFE: With the hope of preserving a pro-life place for voters, SFLAction engaged in a 50-state outreach to GOP leadership to preserve the Party’s platform with life affirming goals not just in this cycle. As a result, the platform ultimately condemned a Republican embrace of a late-term limit as well as affirmed 14th Amendment protections for life – a Constitutional foundation for the future.
IN BALLOT CAMPAIGNS: SFLAction fought hard in the states where the Democratic Party embraced get-out-the-vote efforts disguised as abortion ballot initiatives, efforts that contributed to the record-breaking spending in this election cycle, with more than $15.9 Billion coming through political channels and more than $5 Billion from outside groups. Innovative materials and voter education involved volunteers across the country.
“That kind of spending has an impact, added to the mainstream media support for abortion in earned media spent daily in news outlets transformed into abortion public relations shops across the country,” noted Hawkins. “And yet, life still wins as hope has us coming back to make the case again and again that mothers and their children need help not death by intentional abortion.”
Read more here: The Pro-Life Movement Has Been Fully Outgunned and Outspent This Election – But Here’s Why It May Not Matter in The End
AS A FACT-CHECKING RESOURCE: Students for Life of America, SFLAction & the Pro-Life Generation has been engaged in the daily fact checking of misinformation posing as messaging and media reports. Follow us on social media for real-time updates, but in this cycle top efforts included:
- Debunking Miscarriage Myths and providing resources.
- Detailing the Extremists Views of Harris and Walz.
- Illustrating the reality of Democratic Party supported late-term abortion (with undercover videos and original reporting included).
- Describing the Hostility to Faith & People of Faith on the Left.
- Articulating the horrific scope of a Harris-Walz agenda, and future threats.
- Fact checking events as they happen and bad reporting.
FOR THE FUTURE: SFLAction has been calling for a “New Deal” with President Trump and his team, to lay a foundation for the change that can come.
AGAIN TO NOTE: Plan to watch Nov. 12 when we roll out a strategic plan for LIFE protecting legislation – no matter who was elected.
For more information or interviews, contact [email protected]
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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.
