Kristan Hawkins

You know, this belief that you aren't strong enough, that you have to choose between having your child and having your career or completing your educational goals.

That this was the opposite of what feminism was supposed to be, right?

Abortion is the opposite of empowerment because it says you are not strong enough.

You can give us money, those of us who profit off of your despair, and we'll take care of it for you while you can remain chained to your desk and make a profit for somebody else for all your childbearing years, right?

And then when you're 40 years old and you want to have kids, then you can give another industry, the IVF industry, a bunch of money to have maybe a 50% success rate, right?

So I started talking to these girls that entered the room and I was talking about, well, how are we actually having hard conversations?

Abortion does not allow us.

The abortion lobby in D.C.

does not allow us to have actual hard conversations.

We are the only organization at Students for Life Action that's actually been campaigning and lobbying for a paid family leave policy.

For example, expanded child tax credit.

And there's conservative ways to do it, right?

Borrowing from your own Social Security, not a payroll tax.

There's legitimate policy debates of how do we make these things work.

But we can't have honest conversations about supporting families because of abortion because the other side just doesn't even allow it.

been searching for a Democrat to co-sponsor it.

All this bill does is say if you've had a miscarriage, the hospital is legally required to tell you you can get your child and you can take your child to a funeral home and bury your child and you can grieve your child.

Your child doesn't have to be cremated with medical waste.

And we can't get a Democrat to co-sponsor that bill.

Why?