{"id":327335,"date":"2025-03-06T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=327335"},"modified":"2025-03-05T23:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:51:52","slug":"report-christian-colleges-ties-planned-parenthood-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/report-christian-colleges-ties-planned-parenthood-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: One in 10 Christian colleges maintained ties to Planned Parenthood in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 2024 <\/span>report<\/span><\/a>, published by Students for Life of America\u2019s (SFLA) Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement, shows that more than one in ten American Christian colleges and universities maintained some kind of relationship with Planned Parenthood last year. <\/span><\/p>\n

SFLA investigated 732 U.S. colleges and universities affiliated with different Christian churches, for the fourth year in a row, and found that 83 of these institutions had ties to the abortion business chain. Additionally, the support of Christian schools for abortion has increased by 10% each year since 2022, the study found.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report, as part of SFLA\u2019s <\/span>Christian Schools Project<\/span><\/a>, aimed \u201cto raise public awareness of the reality that Christian schools have ties to Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry so that change can be made,\u201d a <\/span>summary<\/span><\/a> of the report reads. \u201cWithout this strategy, the future of Christian schools may look even more bleak.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

All 732 of the institutions of higher education analyzed in the study, as \u201cChristian schools,\u201d are affiliated with Christ-centered denominations and publicly claim historical Christian faith in their founding; the list of schools was compiled based on this criteria and online databases including Niche\u2019s 2024 Best Christian Colleges in America and the USCCB\u2019s Catalog of Catholic Colleges and Universities in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Methodology overview of the report shows that The Pro-life Generation\u2019s Strategic Initiative Team led the research during the 2023-2024 school year, analyzing college websites for \u201cinfractions\u201d\u2013 collaboration with the abortion industry and Planned Parenthood. Infractions included websites listing Planned Parenthood or other abortion organizations as health resources, pro-abortion internship opportunities, volunteer opportunities, campus events, and general statements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ: DEFUND Planned Parenthood: Nation\u2019s top abortion provider misleads on prenatal development<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The report notes that the \u201cwordsmithing\u201d tactic of framing abortion as \u201chealthcare,\u201d is now used by some Christian colleges, and that \u201calmost half (42%) of all documented infractions promoted Planned Parenthood to students by listing the abortion vendor as a \u2018reliable and trusted health resource\u2019 either from the school health center\u2019s landing page directly or within a linked document of local resources.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n