
Students for Life of America (SFLA) made its mark all over the mainstream media at the 2025 Pro-Life March and SFLA’s fifth annual National Pro-Life Summit, and for good reason.
After the historic inauguration of President Donald Trump and his pardoning of 23 peaceful pro-lifers, SFLA tirelessly worked to make our presence known and persistence for pro-life legislation clear to Trump, as well as Vice President JD Vance, who spoke at the Pro-Life March as his first public speaking engagement since taking office.
Our message was crystal clear: Defund Planned Parenthood and abolish Chemical Abortion Pills.

Though straightforward, the process for Planned Parenthood to “fund themselves” without access to our taxpayer money will require discipline and perseverance. As SFLA President Kristan Hawkins told the Associated Press, “There’s no silver bullet to ending abortion.”
Check out SFLA’s most significant media hits in hard-hitting quotes and our sea of signs, letting Planned Parenthood know that we aren’t going anywhere. Roe v. Wade’s reversal was just the start.
National Pro-Life Summit

After the Pro-Life March, SFLA continued the celebration of Roe’s reversal with a summit dedicated to strategizing with and energizing the pro-life movement. Most notably, The Guardian’s Carter Sherman wrote a compressive article on the “powerful” pro-life organization, Students for Life of America and our roadmap for abolishing abortion in America. The Guardian wrote:

“The summit, which is organized by the powerful Students for Life of America, held seminars on efforts to halt access to abortion pills, protect campus free speech and defend marriage as the union between one man and one woman. There was a pro-life job fair, where young people could learn about working for the Heritage Foundation – the architects of the famous Project 2025 policy playbook – as well as a huge room where they could pick up T-shirts with slogans such as ‘DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD’.”

“In an interview, Hawkins rejected the idea that Trump is more popular than the anti-abortion cause. (Fifty-four percent of Americans identify as ‘pro-choice’, while 41% say they are ‘“’pro-life’”’, according to recent Gallup polling.) While Trump has objected to signing a national abortion ban, Hawkins wants him to commit to defunding Planned Parenthood. She also hopes that Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has been tapped to head the Department of Health and Human Services, will be open to rolling back the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, given Kennedy’s skepticism toward pharmaceutical companies.”

“We’ve been around for 52 years,” Hawkins told The Guardian. “We’re not novices at this.”
The Pro-Life March:
Fox & Friends
Indeed, we’re not strangers to making waves. SFLA started off the Pro-Life March with an interview with Fox and Friends’ Rachel Duffy-Campos, who interviewed Hawkins and SFLA Student Spokespeople Joshua Yamashita and Jenna Gibson.
From then on, the coverage kept on coming, from POLITICO, to Washington Post, and to the Associated Press. Not to mention, our team spread HUNDREDS of signs to march attendees, making the leading photos of many of these articles.

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Washington Post: What to know about the March for Life rally in D.C. on Friday:
“The march has been held every January since Jan. 22, 1973, when Roe v. Wade established a woman’s right to have an abortion without excessive government restrictions — the day Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, calls ‘the darkest day of our American story.’
… While Friday marks the third March for Life since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, Hawkins and others say they are motivated to rally as research found the number of abortions in the United States increased in the aftermath of the decision.
… ‘The Supreme Court said in the Dobbs decision [abortion access] is returned to the people and their representatives,’ Hawkins said of the focus on the Capitol. ‘It’s a demand of the representatives at the U.S. Capitol to act.’

… ‘When Roe was the law, the sort of shorter-term priority was getting rid of Roe,’ Ziegler said. ‘But somewhere along the way, almost everybody began to think that the whole point for the movement was getting rid of Roe. If you’ve spent so much time and money condemning Roe, you’re going to confuse a lot of people that was the point. That’s something the movement needs to re-message.’
Hawkins agreed. ‘The job is not done in the pro-life movement,” she said. “The mission is not done. Seeing Roe fall was the beginning of the end, not the end.’”
Associated Press: March for Life returns to Washington: What to look for when anti-abortion activists gather:
“Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said there is still work to be done, despite the Supreme Court decision. ‘There’s no silver bullet to ending abortion,’ she said. “The march now ends on the backside of the U.S. Capitol to remind our representatives that abortion is not only a state issue, but also a local issue and also a federal issue.’

Looking forward, Hawkins added that she would like to see Trump defund Planned Parenthood and put more government focus on making sure women with unplanned pregnancies have the resources to have the child, such as paid family leave and expanded child tax care credits.”
POLITICO: Trump and Vance sidestep abortion executive orders in March for Life speeches:
“… Kristi Hamrick, the vice president of Students for Life of America, called Trump’s appearance at the march ‘a great first step,’ but stressed that she and others are expecting much more from the administration.

‘Pro-life Americans know that to reverse the radical pro-abortion policies of the Biden-Harris Administration will be a lot of work. But it’s work we are asking this administration to do,’ she said.”
Daily Signal: March for Life Reacts to Trump Pardoning 23 Pro-Life Activists:
“… Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins said the FACE Act should ‘absolutely’ be repealed. ‘When they were firebombing pregnancy centers after the [Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade], zero people were put in jail. Zero,’ Hawkins said. ‘They’ve only ever used this to target pro-lifers. This should never have happened in the first place. It was a travesty of justice. FACE needs to go.’”

Associated Press (Reposted by Yahoo and Yahoo Lifestyle): Trump and Vance join March for Life anti-abortion activists in celebrating the movement’s gains:
“… Kristen Cooper, 21, was among several thousand Students for Life America members attending. She said she was especially excited to be at the march with anti-abortion Republicans in the White House.
She said this march was her fourth but the first with a Republican administration. ‘It’s surreal, actually.’… Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said there is still work to be done, including calling on Trump to defund Planned Parenthood and offer resources such as paid family leave to women with unplanned pregnancies.

‘The march now ends on the backside of the U.S. Capitol to remind our representatives that abortion is not only a state issue, but also a local issue and also a federal issue,’ she said.”
The Telegraph (Reposted/Yahoo): JD Vance calls for baby boom as pro-life lobby brought in from the political cold in DC:
“Kristen Cooper, 21, was among several thousand Students for Life of America members attending. She said she was especially excited to be at the march with ‘pro-life Republicans’ in the White House. This march was her fourth but the first with a Republican administration. ‘It’s surreal actually,’ she said.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said there was still work to be done, despite the Supreme Court decision.

‘There’s no silver bullet to ending abortion,’ she said.
‘The march now ends on the backside of the US Capitol to remind our representatives that abortion is not only a state issue, but also a local issue and also a federal issue.’
Check out the articles with GREAT pictures of our signs:


The gathering of the pro-life movement this January marks the beginning of all we can do together the next four years of Trump’s presidency and many more years after that. This won’t be the last wave SFLA makes in 2025. Stay tuned.
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