Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins used a conservative gathering over the weekend to deliver a blunt message to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans: pro-life voters expect action before the 2026 midterm elections.
Speaking Saturday at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference in Washington, D.C., Hawkins outlined three priorities she said the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress should pursue immediately: permanently defund Planned Parenthood, enforce the Comstock Act to halt the mailing of abortion pills, and remove the abortion drug mifepristone from the market.
Hawkins described Planned Parenthood as “the nation’s largest killer of children and the largest sterilizer of our gender-confused young people.”
The call comes as a temporary one-year provision stripping Planned Parenthood of certain federal Medicaid funding is set to expire. Republicans initially sought to block funding for 10 years through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but the measure was reduced to a single year after Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled against portions of the proposal during the reconciliation process.
That funding is now scheduled to expire July 4, and extending it could prove difficult.
Outgoing Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) recently told NOTUS that another extension would likely require passage through a future reconciliation package, something he acknowledged would be challenging.
Hawkins also urged Senate Republicans to prioritize the SAVE America Act, election integrity legislation backed by President Trump.
She then turned her attention to enforcement of the Comstock Act, an 1873 federal law that prohibits mailing items intended to produce abortions.
“We must enforce the law that’s already on our books,” Hawkins said.
Although the law remains intact, it has gone unenforced for decades. Hawkins argued the statute is being violated through the shipment of chemical abortion pills across state lines and called on Trump to direct federal agencies to begin enforcing it.
“I am not asking for a new law,” she said. “I’m asking President Trump to issue a memo enforcing the law.”
Hawkins’ final request focused on mifepristone, one of the two drugs commonly used in medication abortions.
She accused the Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration of expanding access to chemical abortions and argued the Trump administration should reverse course.
“The Trump FDA and EPA can act swiftly right now today to pull mifepristone from the shelves,” Hawkins said.
In making her case, Hawkins cited a 2025 study published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which argued abortion pills pose greater health risks than previously reported. She also referenced concerns that traces of mifepristone may be entering water systems, an issue that has recently drawn attention from some lawmakers and environmental advocates.
Beyond policy priorities, Hawkins also warned Republicans against taking pro-life voters for granted.
“Coalitions win elections,” she said. “But coalitions are fragile things.”
She revealed that Students for Life recently demonstrated outside Republican National Committee headquarters, explaining that the protest was intended to remind GOP leaders that many grassroots activists expect campaign promises to translate into policy victories.
“We wanted to remind the Party that we all belong to that we have to see a return on our investments,” Hawkins said. “We want to keep this coalition together for November.”
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