Jamie Dangers, SBA’s legislative director, said that Dobbs corrected “the lie that the Constitution somehow conferred a right to abortion.”
“But what [Dobbs] couldn’t do was address the reasons that women and girls sometimes feel that abortion is their only option. So, that’s up to us to address,” she said.
Dangers pointed to two bills that SBA is supporting that were introduced in the House of Representatives in January: the Pregnant Students’ Rights Act and the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act.
The Pregnant Students’ Rights Act narrowly passed the House by a party-line vote Jan. 18, with 212 Republicans voting for it and 207 Democrats voting against. The act requires colleges to inform pregnant students of all resources available to them that will help them carry their child to birth.
The Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act takes measures to protect funding of pro-life pregnancy centers. That act also passed on a party-line vote, with 214 Republicans in favor and 208 Democrats opposed.
Dangers said there are several other initiatives that SBA is supporting in Congress, including Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s and Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson’s Providing for Life Act.
That act, introduced in both the House and Senate in 2023 — but never put to a vote — includes an increase of the child tax credit, allows parents to access a portion of their Social Security for parental leave, and requires fathers to contribute to costs associated with the mother’s pregnancy and delivery.
Dangers called the legislation one of SBA’s “favorite bills.”
Dannenfelser said there is “incredible polarization” over the abortion issue today but added that “there is much agreement in the middle.”
“Certainly much agreement in the middle must be propelled into the public forum,” she added.
Dannenfelser said it’s important to work together on the “pro-life safety net … in honor of” the two-thirds of women who report an unwanted abortion, citing a study led by staff from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, which was published in the medical journal Cureus.
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“That pro-life safety net is not just a theoretical idea now. It is incredibly important. It is urgently needed and cannot be done by one party alone,” she said.
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