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Despite Family Pressure, Mom Chooses Life by Sarah Minnich, SFLA Upper Midwest Regional Coordinator We often say that abortion demonstrates a failure on the part of society to love and support women in need. This reality has become more apparent to my coworkers and myself as we began online outreach to abortion-minded women. The stories of these women are heart wrenching. Often their “boyfriends” are threatening to break up with them or physically harm them if they do not have an abortion. They are being abused, are afraid of the future, and fear not having the necessary support. Every woman

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July 8, 2020

Supreme Court Affirms Commonsense: Forcing Nuns to Subsidize Birth Control is Bad Policy and Un-American

“Conscience rights of people of faith are affirmed today as the Supreme Court blocks the heavy-handed efforts of the abortion industry to force nuns to pay for birth control,” said Students for Life of America’s Kristan Hawkins. “It’s un-American to violate people’s Constitutional freedoms to satisfy those who want to force everyone to pay for birth control, whether they want it or not.”

WASHINGTON D.C. (07-08-2020) – Reacting to news that in a 7-2 decision the Supreme Court has affirmed the conscience rights of Americans who do not want to subsidize birth control, Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins noted this decision reflects “the commonsense understanding that the nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor should not be forced to act against their deeply held beliefs. Birth control is widely available for purchase in the United States but forcing people of faith to pay for it has always been a misuse of governmental power.”

Recently, Hawkins noted at RealClearPolitics, “If you like some limits on abortion, you don’t like Roe,” noting that abortion extremism is made possible by that flawed framework. Click here to read more.

For media interviews, e-mail Kristi at [email protected].

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Students for Life of America is the nation’s largest, pro-life, youth organization. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, SFLA serves more than 1,225 groups on college, universities and high school campuses in all 50 states.

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