April 23, 2024
Here is the latest update on letters Students for Life Action has supported and signed since January. We are so thankful for other pro-life groups and organizations that are fighting with us to protect life in law, no matter how difficult the battle may be.
- IVF Letter – Rep Brecheen (R-OK) sent a letter to the CDC urging them to take necessary regulatory actions to ensure embryonic children are treated with more dignity.
“IVF Clinics are not required to disclose the total number of embryos they create, how many they store indefinitely, or how many they destroy and for what reasons. Shockingly, clinics are not even required to disclose statistics on their application of genetic screening, which more than 70% of fertility clinics utilize for sex-selection. Advancing technology raises further concerns that clinics will use genetic screening to choose the “best” embryos based on traits like eye or hair color, complexion, or potential height. In the U.S., this technology is already used to select or discard embryos based on eye color.” – Rep. Brecheen Letter on IVF Regulation.
- D.C. Five Judiciary Hearing Request – SBA Pro-Life America led a coalition letter to the Judiciary Committee asking for a hearing for an investigation of the five late-term aborted babies that were found with evidence of partial-birth and later-term abortions.
“Because the District of Columbia falls under federal jurisdiction and federal crimes have likely been committed by Cesare Santangelo, we urge the House Judiciary Committee to hold a thorough hearing into the case of the D.C. Five. These five children should be toddlers now, but instead are lying in a morgue awaiting the justice that continues to be denied to them. Cesare Santangelo must be held accountable. We demand Justice for the Five.” – SBA Pro-Life America coalition letter on Judiciary Hearing Request for the D.C. Five.
- AAF Coalition Letter Banning Earmarks—Advancing American Freedom (AAF) wrote a coalition letter to U.S. Congress Members urging them to permanently ban earmarks in spending packages.
“Last month, the American people saw the corrupting and corrosive influence of earmarks on full display. Under the guise of “Community Project Funding,” Congress passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill containing earmarks for abortion centers, organizations that indoctrinate children in gender ideology without their parents’ knowledge, climate activist groups, and a blatantly antisemitic organization.” – AAF Letter on banning earmarks.
- HuCo Pill smugglers Coalition Letter– Human Coalition wrote a coalition letter asking members of Congress to address the Chemical Abortion Pill smuggling concerns.
“Human Coalition Action’s President Jeff Bradford led the letter to members of Congress, naming the online pharmacies that are illegally mailing or shipping abortion drugs across state lines: Honeybee Health, Manifest Rx, and American Mail Order Pharmacy. Their letter also names four providers that illegally smuggle abortion pills into states with pro-life laws, violating both state and federal laws: Aid Access, Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants, Abuzz, and Honeybee Health.” – HuCo Letter to the Hill on Chemical Abortion Pill smuggling.
- Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) letter on Center for Reproductive Rights entering official relations with WHO –
“We urge you to oppose giving any official status within WHO to the Center for Reproductive Rights, a radical pro-abortion organization.
Granting the Center for Reproductive Rights and official status within the WHO framework would run counter to the principles of the WHO Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (WHA69.10, paragraph 5), which require the WHO Executive Board to consider if entering into official relations with a non-state actor may “compromise WHO’s integrity, independence, credibility, and reputation.” This is squarely the case with the Center for Reproductive Rights, which has proved incapable of providing accurate legal information and has repeatedly compromised scientific evidence in its advocacy materials in favor of its preferred policy outcomes.” – C-FAM coalition letter to the World Health Organization.
- Mail-order abortion industry shield laws letter (Sen. Hyde-Smith) – Sen. Hyde-Smith (R-MS) led a letter and sent it to key abortion-related operators as well as mail-order pharmacies industries urging them to reconsider not continuing mail-order abortions.
“We write to demand that, because the mailing and interstate shipping of abortion drugs are criminal acts under Federal law, your organizations cease and desist from using the U.S. Postal Service, or any express company, common carrier, or interactive computer service to send or receive abortion drugs.1 In addition, understanding that several of your organizations are reportedly shipping abortion drugs into States with life-affirming laws with reliance on so-called “shield laws,” we write to warn your organizations against relying on such laws.” – Senator Hyde-Smith led a letter to abortion-related operations and pharmacies
- AAF Letter urging Chairman Jordan and Speaker Johnson to mark up and vote on House floor FACE Act Repeal Act – Advancing American Freedom (AAF) sent a coalition letter to House Leadership asking for a markup on the FACE Act Repeal Act, sue to all peaceful pro-life activists being wrongly convicted with eth weaponization of the FACE Act.
“In the aftermath of additional pro-life activists being convicted by the Biden Administration for peacefully protesting in an abortion clinic, we respectfully urge you to take immediate legislative action to protect peaceful pro-life activists from the Biden Administration’s weaponized Department of Justice and an unconstitutional law.” – AAF Letter urging for a markup on the FACE Act Repeal Act.
- Coalition letter to House Leadership on keeping DOJ from disposing of the five babies – SBA Pro-Life America, along with over a dozen other pro-life groups, signed a letter highlighting the urgency for the DOJ to perform an autopsy on the five late-term aborted babies that were found outside of a D.C. abortion facility.
“The bodies of the D.C. Five were originally discovered by pro-life activists two years ago, on March 25, 2022, outside of the Washington Surgi-Clinic, only five blocks from the White House. The lives of these five children were ended late in pregnancy, likely even in the third trimester. Although the activists who found them asked the police to investigate, and despite repeated requests from members of Congress and the public, to date, no autopsies or investigations have occurred. In the meantime, several Ob-Gyns including former abortionists have reviewed many pictures of the remains and determined the likely gestational ages of these babies and the probable procedures used to by which their lives were ended.” – SBA Pro-Life America Coalition Letter the D.C. Five.
- SBA Coalition letter to Budget Committee hearing on “Economic harms are restricting reproductive healthcare” – SBA Pro-Life America, along with multiple other groups, signed a letter asking GOP Senate members to prepare pro-life statements for the time an upcoming hearing promoting the “need for abortion” to create a thriving economy.
“This week, the Senate Committee on the Budget is holding a hearing entitled “No Rights to Speak of: The Economic Harms of Restricting Reproductive Freedom.” This hearing is yet another attempt of pro-abortion democrats and radical abortion advocates to dehumanize unborn children, belittle the beauty of motherhood, and promote unlimited abortion on demand. The insinuation that a child should only live if they will provide economic value is a utilitarian and dehumanizing view of society.” – SBA Pro-Life America Coalition Letter on Pro-Abortion Budget Committee Hearing.
- Amicus Brief from Idaho Senate offices on EMTALA Case (Idaho Senate & House offices) – Senators Risch (R-ID) and Crapo (R-ID), and Representatives Rep. Fulcher (R-ID) and Rep. Simpson (R-ID) sent a congressional amicus brief on the EMTALA Supreme Court case authorized by Americans United for Life (AUL).
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contends in recent guidance that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, requires emergency room medical personnel to perform “stabilizing” abortions in certain circumstances. Yet, Congress passed EMTALA to address patient dumping and protect women in active labor. The statute says nothing about abortion. In Moyle v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide “whether EMTALA preempts state laws that protect human life and prohibit abortions, like Idaho’s Defense of Life Act.” Nos. 23-726, 23-727 (petitions for cert. granted Jan. 5, 2024). This case presents pro-life Members of Congress the opportunity to file a friend-of-the-court brief that provides a proper interpretation of EMTALA and highlights Congress’ pro-life policy stance.” – AUL and ID offices led congressional letter on EMTALA amicus brief
- AAF letter on TANF Rule – Advancing American Freedom (AAF) sent a coalition letter to House Republicans, writing:
“We, as leaders of the pro-life movement, request that you defund the rulemaking process for the Biden Administration’s proposed rule “Strengthening TANF as a Safety Net and Work Program.” This proposed rule (88 FR 67697) would prohibit pregnancy centers and alternative-to-abortion programs from receiving millions of dollars a year in TANF funding while directing that same funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion centers favored by the Biden Administration.” – AAF Coalition Letter on TANF.