STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA ANNOUNCES ALASKA #JUSTICE4LIFE TOUR STOP TO URGE U.S. SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI TO CONFIRM JUDGE AMY CONEY BARRETT FOR THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
“We have waited half a century for this opportunity,” said SFLA President Kristan Hawkins. “It’s absolutely vital that the Senate confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, and as we travel across the country in person and virtually, we will be activating a new generation of single-issue voters on the human rights struggle of our day – abortion.”
FAIRBANKS, AK (10-16-20) – Students for Life of America (SFLA) announced on Friday that they will be holding a #Justice4Life tour stop in Fairbanks, Alaska as part of a nationwide #Justice4Life, 10-state tour to demand that U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski confirm Amy Coney Barrett for the U.S. Supreme Court and urge voters to #VoteProLifeFirst in this pivotal election. The tour will also stop in West Virginia, Texas, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, Montana, and Arizona. #Justice4Life tour stops will coincide with Students for Life Action’s (SFLAction) Sock the Vote Activism Weekends, happening in eight of the 10 cities, where students and volunteers will canvas to urge voters to #VoteProLifeFirst. With a Supreme Court vacancy in play, the importance of strong pro-life leaders in the White House, Senate, and House has never been clearer – which makes the need for voters to #VoteProLifeFirst even more urgent this election cycle.
“The importance of judicial vacancies has been a reason to vote Pro-Life First since 1973, making this moment in time critical to the future of our country,” said SFLA and SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins. “The confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett offers a rare opportunity to put a judge who respects the law on the nation’s highest court with the potential to impact millions upon millions of future lives. As we travel across the country in person and virtually, we will be activating a new generation of single-issue voters on the human rights struggle of our day – abortion.”
MEDIA ADVISORY: ALASKA TOUR STOP
On Monday, October 19th:
4pm ADT, Fairbanks, AK
Sen. Murkowski’s Office
Courthouse Square
250 Cushman Ave. Ste. 2D
Fairbanks, AK
Confirmed Attendees Include: Nancy Bienvenue, Alaska Family Council; Maria Early, president of the Arctic Students for Life President at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Daniel Dougherty, previous president of Arctic Students for Life at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
ALREADY THIS YEAR: SFLAction has been conducting student trips over the summer, knocking on more than 50,000 doors and making more than 200,000 phone calls to educate voters in Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kansas. As a result, numerous pro-choice Republicans were defeated in primary races, including incumbent Arizona State Senator Heather Carter, who was unseated by pro-life challenger Nancy Barto. Click here to read more about SFLAction’s results in this cycle.
“What we’re doing this cycle is working. Period,” said Hawkins. “We spend every school year building relationships with students. Now, we’re mobilizing them, and our efforts are having an impact in critical races across the nation.”
MEDIA NOTE: For critics who argue that Judge Barrett’s background includes pro-life associations, an abortion viewpoint is not unusual for Supreme Court nominees. Click here to read Hawkins’ op-ed at RealClearPolitics on how abortion views have been ignored for past nominees – such as Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan. Click here to read Hawkins’ op-ed at Fox News outlining how feminist opposition to Barrett’s nomination doesn’t line up with the views of most women.
For interviews, contact Kristi Hamrick at khamrick@studentsforlife.org
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Students for Life Action (SFLAction) is the 501c4 sister organization of Students for Life of America (SFLA), the nation’s largest, pro-life, student organization with more than 1,240 groups on middle, high school, and university campuses in all 50 states. Students for Life has more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry every day, week, and year than any other pro-life outreach in the world and mobilizes the Pro-Life Generation to confront abortion at the local, state and national levels daily. Every week, Students for Life entities reach more than 2 million people across social media platforms to have nearly 200,000 digital conversations with the most engaged pro-life online audience in the world.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) is the nation’s largest, pro-life, youth organization. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, SFLA serves more than 1,240 groups on college and university, middle and high school, medical and law school campuses in all 50 states. Student pro-life organizations work to confront policies on their campuses to support pregnant and parenting students, to end Planned Parenthood’s relationships with schools and communities, and to change minds of their peers about abortion. SFLA has more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry every day, week, and year than any other pro-life outreach in the world and mobilizes the Pro-Life Generation to confront abortion at the local, state and national levels daily. Every week, Students for Life entities reach more than 2 million people across social media platforms to have nearly 200,000 digital conversations with the most engaged pro-life online audience in the world.
