Students for Life, a prominent pro-life organization, told their networks to avoid all engagement with abortion abolitionists, according to internal messages recently obtained by The Sentinel.

The broad anti-abortion movement in America has been increasingly divided in recent years between conventional pro-life activists and abolitionists. The latter coalition has asserted that the established pro-life approach of regulating abortion is insufficient for ending the abortion holocaust, and has instead called for equal protection of the laws for preborn babies, meaning that all parties willfully involved in an abortion decision could be prosecuted for murder.

Such abolitionists have criticized Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life and their public policy arm, Students for Life Action, for opposing efforts to enshrine equal protection in the platform of the North Dakota Republican Party. Hawkins and other pro-life leaders opposed the effort because the law would allow women who willfully have abortions to be prosecuted.