In Washington, D.C., Students for Life of America (SFLA) and Students for Life Action (SFLaction) partnered with Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America to put on the Defund Planned Parenthood ACROSS America Press Conference calling for defunding ALL abortion vendors. Our special emphasis? You guessed it, the mega offender, Planned Parenthood.  

READ: A Unified Pro-Life Community Calls for Planned Parenthood & All Abortion Vendors to be Defunded as “Abortion is Federal if We Pay for It” 

It began with lobbying, then an ecumenical media event with a mobile billboard and a Cemetery of the Innocents– and then back to lobbying. Over the weekend, it went nationwide, with over 100 Life Chain events in 33 states.   

READ: Students for Life of America Makes BOLD Statement to Defund Planned Parenthood with Life Chain Events in OVER 100 Cities across 33 States & Washington D.C. 

On the LIFE issue, the Pro-Life Generation (PLG) dominated the abortion news. Our agenda to end federal payments to abortion vendors, and work in conjunction with many to make that a reality. And we stood strong at this media event with a great cloud of witnesses.  

SFLAction Executive Vice President Tina Whittington emceed the news event. Speakers included:   

• Rep. Chris Smith (R- NJ)      

• Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) 

• Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) 

• Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ)             

• Kristan Hawkins, President of SFLA & SFLAction  

• Marjorie Dannenfelser, President, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America 

• Mayra Rodriguez, Former Planned Parenthood worker & Whistleblower            

• Janae Strake, Vice President of Outreach and Advocacy, Heritage Action For America     

• Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council 

• Jennie Bradley Lichter, President, March for Life 

• Ralph Reed, Founder & Chairman, Faith & Freedom Coalition 

• Toni McFadden, Pro-Life Activist         

• Kimberly Bird, Vice President of External Relations, Live Action  

• Tom McClusky, Director of Government Affairs, Catholic Vote 

• Melissa Ohden, Founder, Abortion Survivors Network 

• Penny Nance, CEO & President, Concerned Women for America 

• Jonathan Alexandre, Senior Counsel, Liberty Counsel   

• Michele Venditto, Director, Campaign for Abortion Free Cities        

• Bishop Abel Palomo, National Association of Hispanic Pastors      

Check out some of our nationwide coverage from Thursday, March 27, SFLA President Kristan Hawkins and other distinguished speakers told Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobby to “Go Fund Themselves.” 

EWTN: Pro-Life Movement on Capitol Hill to Defund Planned Parenthood | EWTN News Nightly 

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Read the article by EWTN Great Britain here: Pro-life groups praise Trump plan to cut taxpayer funds for Planned Parenthood

AP (Reposted, MSN, PBS): Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done 

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Major anti-abortion groups have gathered in the nation’s capital to begin a lobbying effort with Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration aimed at eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood 

“Today is a historic moment where the pro-life movement stands united behind one message: Defund Planned Parenthood,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, as she kicked off the rally in view of the U.S. Capitol. 

She called on Trump and other Republicans to “defund your political enemies,” adding that the abortion lobby has long targeted Republicans. 

Read more: Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done | AP News 

Newsmax: Groups Rally to End Govt Funding For Planned Parenthood 

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“Today is a historic moment where the pro-life movement stands united behind one message: Defund Planned Parenthood,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, as she kicked off the rally in view of the U.S. Capitol. 

She called on President Donald Trump and other Republicans to “defund your political enemies,” adding that the abortion lobby has long targeted Republicans. 

Read more: Groups Rally to End Govt Funding For Planned Parenthood | Newsmax.com 

Daily Caller News Foundation: Pro-Life Activists Call On Congress To ‘Defund Big Abortion’ 

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… Amid a sea of people donning blue “Defund Big Abortion” shirts, activist groups, including Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life Action and And Then There Were None, led citizen lobbyists through the Canon House of Representatives building before gathering for a press conference in front of the Capitol reflecting pool. Planned Parenthood — the largest abortion provider in the country — on average receives more than $500 million in federal funds annually, according to a U.S. Government Accountability study, and the pro-life groups contend that this funding should be discontinued. 

… Students for Life Action president Kristan Hawkins spoke at the press conference, saying Democrats lost the 2024 election “epically” after running on “the most radical abortion agenda in American history.” 

“This brings us to our historic moment, where the pro-life movement stands unified behind a single message: Defund the entire abortion industry and defund their long-time standard bearer  – Planned Parenthood – once and for all,” Hawkins said. “Like many politically protected businesses, corruption and reports of botched care for women are so widespread and egregious that even The New York Times has finally admitted there are serious, systemic problems.  

Read more: Pro-Life Activists Call On Congress To ‘Defund Big Abortion’ | The Daily Caller 

POLITICO: Playbook PM: Another Trump nom on the brink 

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UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Several anti-abortion groups, organized by Students for Life, are launching a lobbying effort in D.C. today pushing Congress and the Trump administration on “eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood ahead of the Supreme Court hearing a case in April that could strip the organization’s funding in South Carolina,” AP’s Christine Fernando writes. “The anti-abortion groups are taking aim at abortion providers under an initiative called Defund Planned Parenthood, which targets federal Medicaid funding for the reproductive health care provider.” 

Read more: Playbook PM: Another Trump nom on the brink – POLITICO 

Roll Call: Fully in power, GOP targets Planned Parenthood 

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… “Abortion in America has been bizarrely enshrined in our federal public policy for decades,” said Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins on Thursday during a rally held outside the Capitol. “If Planned Parenthood is defunded, we can Make America Healthy Again by ensuring those health care dollars continue to stay with women and families who need them.” 

Hawkins’ group launched an ad campaign last month calling on Trump to call to defund Planned Parenthood. Lawmakers who addressed the event included Reps. Mary Miller, R-Ill., Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J. and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.   

On Wednesday, more than 150 anti-abortion groups sent letters to lawmakers calling on Republicans to include language that would make Planned Parenthood ineligible to receive federal Medicaid reimbursements. Similar language was included in two reconciliation bills that would have repealed the 2010 health care law: a 2016 bill vetoed by then-President Barack Obama and a separate 2017 House-passed bill. 

Speaking at the rally, SBA Pro-life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said this will be the first time since 2017 that it’s politically realistic to defund Planned Parenthood.  

“I can tell you one thing, this movement is completely unified in its first priority, and that is to defund big abortion in this reconciliation bill,” she said.  

Read more: Fully in power, GOP targets Planned Parenthood – Roll Call 

National Catholic Register: Pro-Life Advocates Lobby Congress to Defund Planned Parenthood 

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More than 300 pro-life activists from 39 different states gathered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 27 

… Kristen Hawkins, president of Students for Life Action, called the day a “historic moment,” as “the pro-life movement stands unified behind one single message, defund the entire abortion industry, defund the longtime standard bearer of Planned Parenthood once and for all.” 

Hawkins explained that next steps will include rallies across more than 100 cities to “tell President Trump and our legislative players here on Capitol Hill, in our state capitals, that it’s very clear what they must do next. Defund your political enemies, invest in lifesaving, life-affirming medical care.” 

Read more: Pro-Life Advocates Lobby Congress to Defund Planned Parenthood| National Catholic Register 

The Hill (Reposted, MSN): GOP lawmakers in 10 states introduce bills to treat abortion as homicide 

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… A 2024 poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist found that the overwhelming majority of Americans — 84 percent — do not believe women who have had an abortion should face penalties, fines or jail time. 

… Students for Life of America, for instance, opposes such bills because they fail to address a “predatory industry” that exploits vulnerable women to make money and prosecute pregnant people who could have been coerced into abortion, a spokesperson said. 

“Maybe instead of wasting our time on a circular firing squad and debating who can hand out the most prison sentences to prove that they are the most anti-abortion one out there, maybe get to work and elect 100 percent pro-life champions … who will stand with us to pass substantial legislation,” Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said in a recent episode on her podcast. 

… Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America “does not support legislation to criminalize women and qualify them for the death penalty,” Kelsey Pritchard, the group’s political affairs communications director, told The Hill. “No state pro-life law criminalizes women and that’s not changing as not a single one of these bills has passed out of committee.” 

Read more: GOP lawmakers in 10 states introduce bills to treat abortion as homicide 

The Christian Post: Post-abortive woman calls for defunding Planned Parenthood 

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Students for Life of America, one of the largest pro-life campus organizations, plans to hold more than 100 events in 33 states within the next few days, according to its president, Kristan Hawkins.   

According to Hawkins, the purpose of the rallies is to “tell President Trump and our legislative players here on Capitol Hill, in our state capitals, that it’s very clear what they must do next. Defund your political enemies, invest in lifesaving, life-affirming medical care.” 

Read more: Post-abortive woman calls for defunding Planned Parenthood | Politics 

Other Great Hits:  

• The Trentonian (AP): Anti-abortion groups mount effort to strip Planned Parenthood funding ahead of Supreme Court hearing 
• Our Sunday Visitor: Pro-life advocates call on Trump, Congress to defund Planned Parenthood 
• Focus on the Family/Citizen: BREAKING: Trump Administration Moves to Freeze, Cut Funding to Planned Parenthood  
• Breitbart: Anti-abortion groups mount effort to strip Planned Parenthood funding ahead of Supreme Court hearing 
• World Magazine: Pro-life advocates call on Congress to defund Planned Parenthood 
• The Daily Bo Snerdley: Pro-life activists call on Congress to ‘defund big abortion’ 
• WCIV (MSN): Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding 
• WtopNews: Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done
• Fox 4 Kansas City: Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done
• The Boston Globe: Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding
• Fox 31 Denver: Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done
• Fox 5 San Diego: Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done
• WCNC Charlotte: Anti-abortion groups push to defund Planned Parenthood
• Wkyc: Anti-abortion groups push to defund Planned Parenthood
• The Baltimore Sun: Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding
• American Briefing: Pro-Life Activists Call On Congress To ‘Defund Big Abortion’
• Spectrum News NY1: What Trump has done on abortion since his return to office
  

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