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Pro-life leaders say the abortion industry has ‘abused school environments’

Universities that hand out chemical abortion drugs to students would lose their federal funding under proposed legislation from Representative Chip Roy.

Currently Massachusetts, New York, and California public universities hand out abortion drugs on campus, and the use of the pills has grown in the past several years.

The “Protecting Lives on College Campuses Act” would prohibit federal funding to any “institution of higher education that hosts or is affiliated with a student-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to students of the institution or to employees.”

“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 colleges that dole these dangerous pills out to students to use in their dorms without medical supervision.”

His office did not respond to College Fix requests for comment in the past several weeks about plans to get the law passed.

However, a pro-life group representing high school and college students provided further comments to The Fix.

“The abortion lobby has abused our school environments to market their business to a captive audience,” Students for Life Action’s Kristi Hamrick told The Fix in an email. “This violates parents’ trust and shares the false message with students that they can’t handle a career and a personal life.”

Hamrick is the pro-life group’s vice president of media and policy. Roy’s office listed SFL Action as one of the backers of the legislation.

“Pregnancy is not a disease cured by abortion,” Hamrick said. “And even more importantly, schools should not be in the business of ending the lives of future students.”

According to its website, Students for Life Action has “nearly 200,000 student activists nationwide” who seek to “kick the abortion industry out of schools and ensure key state political victories to make abortion unprofitable, restrict abortion access, and embrace a post-Roe America.”

The bill currently has 119 cosponsors and is backed by other pro-life organizations as well.

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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