Pro-life officials say the pregnancy industry has’ exploited school environments ‘
Colleges that hand out chemical contraception drugs to individuals may lose their national funding under proposed regulations from Representative Chip Roy.
Now Massachusetts, New York, and California public institutions hand out abortion medicines on college, and the use of the tablets has grown in the past several decades.
The” Protecting Lives on College Campuses Act” would prevent federal money to any “institution of higher learning that visitors or is affiliated with a student-based support site that provides pregnancy drugs or abortions to students of the organization or to people”.
” The American people should not be forced to fund the destruction of innocent life through DIY abortions with their hard-earned tax money to begin with”, Roy, a Texas Republican, ( pictured ) stated in a news release. ” We especially should not be funding institutions that dole these harmful supplements out to individuals to use in their dorms without skilled care”.
His company did not respond to College Fix requests for comment in the past many days about strategies to get the laws passed.
Nevertheless, a pro-life team representing high school and college students provided more responses to The Fix.
” The abortion hall has abused our school conditions to promote their business to a hostage audience”, Students for Life Action’s Kristi Hamrick told The Fix in an email. ” This violates kids ‘ confidence and shares the false information with kids that they can’t handle a job and a private life”.
Hamrick is the pro-life team’s vice president of advertising and plan. Roy’s company listed SFL Action as one of the sponsors of the policy.
” Pregnancy is not a disease cured by pregnancy”, Hamrick said. ” And even more significantly, schools should not be in the company of ending the life of future kids”.
According to its site, Students for Life Action has “nearly 200, 000 scholar activists statewide” who seek to “kick the abortion business out of schools and ensure important state social victories to make abortion costly, restrict abortion access, and adopt a post-Roe America”.
The bill currently has 119 cosponsors and is backed by other pro-life organizations as well.
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One school that could be impacted by the bill is Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, which sponsored a club that hosted an “on-campus medication abortion launch party” in February.
The event featured” speakers discussing medication abortion and Reproductive Justice” in support of its mission” to bring medication abortion to campus”.
Northeastern University did not respond to two emailed requests for comment on the legislation sent in the past several weeks.
Hamrick also warned that the unregulated distribution of chemical abortion pills allowed by such schools exposes women and girls to “injury, infertility, and death”, and “empowers abusers who use the pills against mothers without their knowledge and consent”.
A Houston attorney, for example, pled guilty last year to putting abortion pills into his wife’s drink to kill their baby.
The Charlotte Lozier Institute, a pro-life research organization, has repeatedly reported that the abortion pill’s role in” self-managed abortion” has become increasingly dangerous because of a high risk of complications and a lack of professional oversight.
Polling indicates that the pro-life bill resonates with many young voters, regardless of their party association.
Hamrick told The Fix that Students for Life Action polling found that “more than 9 in 10 registered Millennial and Gen Z voters support legislation that protects women and girls from the harms of abortion as well as on efforts to protect the environment”.
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