Students for Life report finds massive uptick in Christian colleges' support for abortion, Planned Parenthood

EXCLUSIVE: Support for termination among Christian colleges successful the United States has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, according to a caller study by Students for Life of America’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement (IPA).

IPA identified 725 Christian schools, defined by arsenic "an instauration of higher acquisition affiliated with a Christ-centered denomination and publically claiming humanities Christian religion successful its founding," and combed done the colleges' websites for references to termination recovered that 1 successful 7 is connected to the termination industry. Information for the study was gathered during the 2024-2025 world year.

The study tallied "infractions" by the Christian schools, defined arsenic "a narration with Planned Parenthood oregon different termination manufacture entity." It recovered that successful the contiguous aftermath of the Supreme Court's landmark reversal, termination enactment connected assemblage campuses accrued by astir 20%. Since 2024, that fig has accrued to 38%.

Overall, much than 26% of the infractions by Christian schools stemmed from referring to termination mill Planned Parenthood arsenic a "health resource."

Protesters show extracurricular the Supreme Court aft a landmark termination determination struck down Roe v. Wade, Friday, June 24, 2022.  (Joshua Comins/Fox News)

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In immoderate cases, schools enactment termination connected their websites and supply resources for students to get them, including done Planned Parenthood. Others provided internships oregon unpaid opportunities with termination vendors.

Schools were besides ranked connected an A+ to F rating. To gain an A+, the Christian colleges indispensable not enactment termination successful immoderate way, and actively beforehand pro-life gestation centers oregon different pro-life resources for expectant mothers. An A people means that a schoolhouse does not enactment successful immoderate way, but besides does not beforehand immoderate pro-life alternatives.

In bid to person an F grade, a schoolhouse indispensable person 4 oregon much infractions.

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"You can't beryllium Christian and beryllium pro-abortion," Students for Life Action president Kristan Hawkins told Fox News Digital.

"It's not thing you tin ... beryllium flexible on," she said. "If you are a Christian, you profess to service a God who spoke the beingness into existence. He sent his lone lad to dice a painful, excruciating death, to emergence again successful 3 days truthful we tin unrecorded successful eden for each eternity. He did that due to the fact that we, arsenic His creation, are infinitely invaluable."

American University successful Washington, D.C., affiliated with the Methodist Church, topped the database of offenders.

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The IPA study recovered 34 infractions connected the portion of the school, listing the astir egregious arsenic an alternate outpouring interruption programme called "Youth Empowerment and Reproductive Health."

The school's Antiracism Center besides flaunts a "Reproductive Justice" leafage that provides an termination assets guide, and slams states that it says moved to restrict abortions aft Roe was overturned.

"This has disproportionately impacted mediocre people, large radical of color, and Indigenous large people; groups whose entree to privateness and bodily autonomy successful the reproductive sphere was already limited," the leafage says. "By bringing unneurotic the enactment of feminists of colour with allies successful the fields of reproductive law, health, and politics, ARPC works to assistance up the experiences and actions of women of colour and forge caller pathways toward a civilization and authorities of reproductive state for all."

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A spokesperson for American University said the schoolhouse isn't affiliated with Christianity, though it was founded by Methodists. However, the school's website says it is inactive affiliated with the Methodists.

Out of the 725 affiliated colleges successful the country, the IPA survey recovered that 1 successful 7 is connected to the termination industry. (KAREN BLEIER/AFP via Getty Images)

"In the outpouring of 2015, the University Senate of the United Methodist Church voted to reaffirm American University arsenic a United Methodist-affiliated university," according to a webpage.

High connected the database of failing schools is Duke University successful North Carolina. The IPA lists a September 2024 sheet treatment among Duke doctors and lawyers, which references termination arsenic "healthcare" and complains that "inconsistent ineligible approaches to termination are fueling fearfulness and uncertainty for some patients and doctors..." arsenic a main crushed for the F. 

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Duke, besides a historically Methodist school, inactive recognizes its Methodist founding successful its ain by-laws. 

"Recognizing its root successful this tradition, its continuing narration to The United Methodist Church, and the divers constituency that has developed since its founding, the University is committed to creating a rigorous scholarly assemblage characterized by generous hospitality toward divers spiritual and taste traditions," those by-laws say. 

Southern Methodist University (SMU) successful Texas tallied 14 infractions, including an full webpage dedicated to "Women's Resources." A subsection of that page, called "Reproductive Rights and Parent Support," lists determination and nationalist affiliates of Planned Parenthood arsenic resources, linking to their websites. It besides lists the pro-abortion National Abortion Federation, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and the National Network of Abortion funds arsenic resources.

SMU's ngo connection besides says it is committed to its Methodist founding.

"SMU affirms its humanities committedness to world state and unfastened inquiry, to motivation and ethical values, and to its United Methodist heritage," according to the school. 

Kristi Hamrick, Students for Life of America's vice president of media and policy, said it's not uncommon for schools to affiliate themselves with Christianity connected their websites, but assertion they are not religiously affiliated. 

"It’s disingenuous for schools to speech astir their religion practice and values connected 1 portion of their website and successful their materials, and past not to signifier what they preach. No 1 should beryllium amazed they are connected the database of schools failing to unrecorded up to their ideals," she said. 

Pro-life demonstrators march past the U.S. Supreme Court during the 46th yearly March for Life successful Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 18, 2019. (Getty Images)

"The schools beforehand themselves connected nationalist websites, and they are being judged by their ain words. Donors, alumni, and imaginable students merit to cognize what schools are doing successful enactment of termination and termination vendors," she said. "Every year, there’s ever a fewer schools who effort to region themselves from their religion affiliation, erstwhile we constituent it out. But we’ve been much than fair, successful documenting who they assertion to beryllium and what they are doing connected the quality rights contented of our time – abortion."

One of the nation's premier Catholic universities besides received a failing grade. Villanova University, located successful the suburbs of Philadelphia and the alma mater of Pope Leo XIV, had 4 infractions, according to the report.

Of its transgressions, the study notes that the schoolhouse offers respective pro-abortion groups connected authoritative schoolhouse vocation pages, including the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire and Repro Freedom For All. Those pages don't presently database immoderate disposable occupation opportunities.

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Hawkins told Fox News Digital that portion immoderate schools are upset astir receiving a failing grade, it sometimes motivates them to adhere to Christian, pro-life values.

"If you are consenting to get escaped of each of your ties to the termination industry, beforehand the gestation centers — non-violent healthcare centers – we are much than blessed to stock this arsenic a win, and get the connection out," she said.

There are immoderate positives from the report, too. For example, 66 schools improved to an A+ rating, astir a 13.5% summation from 2024.

Pro-life demonstrators clasp signs during the March for Life 2020 rally successful Washington D.C., connected Jan 24, 2020. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Some pro-life successes astatine idiosyncratic schools were highlighted, including Abilene Christian University removing Planned Parenthood arsenic an internship opportunity, Presbyterian College successful South Carolina removing Planned Parenthood arsenic a "top nonprofit" successful its nonprofit vocation usher and St. Mary's University of Minnesota removing Planned Parenthood arsenic an leader connected its vocation services webpage.

"Every quality being is infinitely invaluable due to the fact that we were created successful [God's] ain image. To support, truly what has present become, sadly, the literal quality sacrifice for the God of yourself oregon for different ambition oregon vocation goals is to beryllium fundamentally rejecting the information of what it means to beryllium a Christian and pursuing the creator of the universe," said Hawkins.

Duke, SMU and Villanove did not instrumentality requests for comment.