September 29, 2022
“We stand ready to mobilize our grassroots movement to, once again, block Governor Evers’ political stunt,” said Dustin Curtis, SFLAction Executive Director. “Governor Evers is wasting valuable time and not addressing the real issues that impact Wisconsin taxpayers, but instead distracting voters from his failed record. This is a clear political stunt to circumvent Wisconsin’s existing abortion law at the expense of innocent preborn lives and we will not standby silent.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (09-29-2022) – Students for Life Action (SFLAction) responded to recent reports indicating that Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is calling a special session in the hopes of repealing elective abortion limitations through the state legislature.
In June, SFLAction engaged in Wisconsin’s special session while monitoring several others. In a matter of weeks, the Pro-Life Generation sent 80,198 text messages and made nearly 1,000 phone calls to successfully urge Wisconsin’s GOP Leaders in the House and Senate to quickly gavel out of Evers’ special session.
“We stand ready to mobilize our grassroots movement to, once again, block Governor Evers’ political stunt,” said Dustin Curtis, SFLAction Executive Director. “Governor Evers is wasting valuable time and not addressing the real issues impacting Wisconsin taxpayers, but instead distracting voters from his failed record. This is a clear political stunt to circumvent Wisconsin’s existing abortion law at the expense of innocent preborn lives and we will not standby silent.”
Evers is attempting to roll back Wisconsin’s abortion limitation that was established in 1849 and took effect after Roe was reversed. He criticized the year the law derived from in part saying that it was “originated before the Civil War.”
SFLAction will mobilize to pushback on Evers’ political attempt and remind him that many of our Nation’s finest laws were established years ago including the Slave Trade Prohibition Act of 1807, Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 to name a few.
To learn more about the Post-Roe Blueprint from Students for Life Action, read Hawkins’ op-ed at Fox titled America needs to get ready for a world after Roe or her op-ed at Newsweek titled Forget the Kids’ Menu: The Pro-Life Movement Wants Real Policy Engagement.
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Students for Life Action (SFLAction), a 501c4, along with its 501c3 sister organization, Students for Life of America (SFLA), make up the nation’s largest pro-life youth organization and a political and policy operation engaging people of all ages. Together they work to end abortion — the human rights issue of our day — and provide political, legal, and community support for women and their children, born and preborn. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, SFLA has more than 1,300 groups on middle, high school, college, university, medical, and law school campuses in all 50 states. SFLA creates strategy, policy, and programming to connect those most targeted for abortion with people ready to help and builds a framework for political engagement on their behalf. SFLA and SFLAction have more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry than any other pro-life outreach in the world, reaching more than 2 million people across social media platforms each week and engaging in approximately 100,000 digital conversations per month. Over more than 16 years, President Kristan Hawkins has grown SFLAction/SFLA into an $18 million organization preparing for a Post-Roe America.