Last week outside the Supreme Court, Students for Life of America (SFLA) organized a pro-life rally in support of Texas’s abortion safety regulation laws. But that’s far from all the group does. Red Alert Politics reached out to the group’s president, Kristan Hawkins, about what they’re doing for the 2016 election.
The group announced Wednesday their Women Betrayed spring bus tours, which will travel to more than 80 campuses in 15 states, including swing states for presidential and Congressional house races, to educate millennials on Planned Parenthood. The tour will begin in California and end in Washington, D.C.
Hawkins said that this is their second bus tour, and the first to focus on an election. She referred to it as the “grand finale” of their Women Betrayed tours.
SFLA often speaks of what’s at stake with the pro-life issue. In a statement, Hawkins mentioned:
She emphasized that while this is “going to be an election that is going to be historical and have so many ramifications … it’s critical that as a movement we talk about the main key, which is defunding Planned Parenthood.” She was encouraged about how “all Republican candidates have pledged to defund the abortion giant.”
It’s a “key rallying point” as to if “who you’re electing [is] pledging to defund abortion once and for all,” Hawkins said.
SFLA is not a political group and does not give endorsements. Rather, Hawkins spoke of the need to “elect the best candidate who will advance our mission which is ending abortion in our lifetime,” which involves defunding Planned Parenthood.
She spoke more about the campus bus tours, which will distinguish Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) from Planned Parenthood. She acknowledged how a majority of young people already oppose Planned Parenthood’s practices, but it’s getting them to talk about it. It’s also a message to presidential candidates that they’re “not going away.”
