Активистка Students for Life подверглась нападению с применением силы во время избирательной кампании

“I rang the doorbell, and a lady answered.” That’s how Grace’s story starts. She introduced herself. Told the woman she was volunteering to protect preborn babies. Asked politely if she could count on her vote. The woman said “no, thank you.” Grace said have a good day and turned to leave. SUPPORT LIFENEWS! If you want to help fight abortion, please donate to LifeNews.com! That’s when someone screamed from inside the house. A second woman ran out the door – she chased Grace down the driveway, shoved her, and hit her in the head with both fists. As Grace tried to run away and reached the end of the driveway, the woman threw a dinner roll that hit her in the face – and kept following her down the street, screaming that she hoped Grace would be run over by a car. Grace filed a police report. The woman was arrested and charged. Pro-Life Friend, this is just one story from one of Students for Life Action’s door-to-door canvassers during the last midterm election. I’ve told every one of our canvassers to prepare for anything over the next two months. I wish I could tell you Grace’s story was a one-off. It isn’t. Doors get slammed. Voices get raised. Sometimes it gets violent. And yet our canvassers keep walking up the next driveway because they know if the Abortion Lobby seizes power in November, it will be a death sentence to millions more innocent preborn babies. These young women and men will be walking for hours in scorching heat. Knowing pro-lifers like you have their backs will help keep them going. Of course, I could tell our door-knockers to go home. I could focus on running expensive TV ads instead. But studies show that face-to-face conversations move voters more than any TV ad, mailer, or text ever could – and the effect doesn’t disappear after one election. Voters who talk to one of our students in person are more likely to show up and vote pro-life again in the next election cycle, too. Not only that, but we’ll be deploying teams of pro-life activists to blanket church parking lots with flyers exposing the records of pro-abortion politicians in key districts every Sunday in September and October. This is the on-the-ground grassroots campaigning that’s needed to turn out every pro-life voter. Last cycle, this approach worked. *** In Oklahoma, our student canvassers knocked 633 doors, made 26,931 phone calls, and sent 26,078 texts exposing two pro-abortion senators who killed our Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Bill – and voters threw them out. *** In South Carolina, we knocked 2,572 doors and made 51,371 calls exposing three pro-abortion Republican senators who protected the Life at Conception Act’s enemies – and they lost too. *** In North Carolina, 1,052 doors and 52,554 texts helped four pro-life candidates win their primaries outright. That’s just a small sample of what our door-to-door canvassing team has done over the years. The Abortion Lobby would love nothing more than for our students to stay home this fall. Right now, we’re already deployed and expanding over the next two months, where this election gets decided door by door. Our target map for the 2026 Midterms is the most ambitious we’ve run: >>> Idaho and Missouri – ballot referendum battles where the Abortion Lobby is trying to buy a win at the ballot box. >>> Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas – U.S. Senate races that could decide who controls the chamber. >>> Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania – Gubernatorial and state legislative races that will shape abortion law for years. >>> California’s 13th, Iowa’s 3rd, Michigan’s 10th, Pennsylvania’s 10th, North Carolina’s 1st, Ohio’s 9th, and Texas’s 34th – U.S. House battlegrounds where a few thousand doors could flip a seat and determine control of Congress. We’ll be active in at least ten states in races up and down the ballots. And every single one of them needs boots on the ground before Tuesday, November 3rd. The Abortion Lobby has the money, the media, and the institutions. What they don’t have is thousands of young pro-lifers willing to knock on a stranger’s door, get yelled at, sometimes get hit with worse than words – and go knock on the next door anyway. That grit and determination is what wins elections. LifeNews Note: Kristan Hawkins is president of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, with more than 1,600 groups on middle and high school, college and university, medical and law school campuses in all 50 states.