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08 Apr 2024

Snopes Says What We’ve Been Saying All Along: Contraception is a Con  

Jordan Estabrook | April 8, 2024
As the abortion debate heats up, many issues, including our stances on IVF and Trump’s 2024 abortion statements, thrust Students for Life of America’s name into the spotlight. In particular, birth control set the media ablaze, especially with this recent tweet from Ben Zeisloft, The Sentinel editor. This time, however, Snopes vindicates what we’ve been saying all along: hormonal birth
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05 Mar 2024

Company Decides Aiding Sexual Abusers with Over-the-Counter Birth Control is Good for Business 

Jordan Estabrook | March 5, 2024
Perrigo Company apparently decided that potentially aiding abusers could be good for their pocketbook. New York Times reports that they’ll be the first to provide nonprescription over-the-counter birth control, Opill. It will be available in stores and online for $19.99. Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins put out a statement last year calling the FDA Advisory Committee’s recommendation
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28 Aug 2023

New on Explicitly Pro-Life: Detox Yourself from Birth Control

Caroline Wharton | August 28, 2023
In the newest episode of Explicitly Pro-Life, the podcast hosted by Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins, she is joined by SFLA Director of Marketing Elise Neff to discuss hormonal birth control for the final episode of her mini birth control series. Hawkins and Neff, who is also a certified hormone coach, discuss various ways in which you can
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07 Aug 2023

Even Obama Was Worried Minors Could Be Endangered by Over-The-Counter Distribution of Hormones… Here’s Why  

Caroline Wharton | August 7, 2023
When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently allowed over the counter distribution of hormonal birth control, mainstream media outlets like the New York Times glossed over concerns, painting all apprehension as religious in nature. However, while some certainly have religious objections to this decision, for many on both sides of the aisle — including former President Barack Obama —
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10 May 2023

As FDA Advisory Committee Empowers Abusers with Recommendation of Over-the-Counter Birth Control, Young Girls Now More Vulnerable, says SFLA’s Kristan Hawkins 

Kristi Hamrick | May 10, 2023
WASHINGTON D.C. (05-10-2023) – Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins called an FDA Advisory Committee’s recommendation for over-the-counter distribution of contraception “a feckless decision that empowers abusers.”   Hawkins made the following statement: “The abortion lobby has trained many in our culture to see pregnancy as the enemy of women, ignoring all the factors at play when you abandon young women with
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29 Jun 2021

Britney Spears’s IUD Nightmare

Brenna Lewis | June 29, 2021
  Guest Post by Freeman Marshall, SFLA Student Leader “I have an IUD inside me so I won’t get pregnant but this so-called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out,” Spears said to the court earlier this month. “I want to be able to get married and have a baby, I was told right now
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15 Mar 2021

Contraception Isn’t a “Side Issue” and Here’s Why

Brenna Lewis | March 15, 2021
  Contraception tends to feel like a “side issue” for some pro-life advocates. But we do have a responsibility to address it because it plays a significant role in the supply and demand for abortion – in addition to causing a number of abortions itself. Learning about contraception can help guide your conversations about the earliest types of abortions as well
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24 Jul 2020

College Grad Upset That Her Catholic University Didn’t Give Her Birth Control

Jessica Nardi | July 24, 2020
  A recent college graduate wrote an article expressing her concern that her private Catholic school gave her a degree but denied her birth control, calling it “something just as important for my future.”  The author, Mattise Wood, described her experiences at Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington, explaining how the school’s health center did not provide her with birth control
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21 Jul 2020

If the Country Wants to Stop Celebrating Racist Figures, It’s Time to Strike Out Sanger

Brenna Lewis | July 21, 2020
  Margaret Sanger pioneered the birth control movement and founded Planned Parenthood. There are dedications to her throughout the United States (and even on the planet Venus). She is highlighted as a feminist, humanist, and “hero” for human equality. Here are the top two (publicly-funded) places she is commemorated: Her bust is on display in the “Struggle for Justice” exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum.
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14 Jul 2020

Planned Parenthood Vows to Force Catholic Nuns to Fund Abortions

Jessica Nardi | July 14, 2020
  It’s always a similar story – a pro-life victory happens and Planned Parenthood comes out threatening to undo it. Sad, but unsurprising. After the Supreme Court implemented President Trump’s pro-life order — protecting the Little Sisters of the Poor from being forced to fund abortions — Planned Parenthood’s CEO Alexis McGill Johnson said the ruling “is egregious — people
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