Protecting Life

Life is precious and worth defending at all stages, which is why Senator Blackburn has strongly fought to protect unborn children and empower mothers and fathers.

Throughout her career in public service, Senator Blackburn has been an ardent champion of the pro-life movement and notably spearheaded the investigation into the illegal and gruesome practice of selling baby body parts as Chair of the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives. Her persistence on the issue resulted in fifteen criminal referrals. Senator Blackburn has consistently supported legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation's single largest provider of abortions.

What Senator Blackburn Is Doing to Fight For the Unborn

This year, Senator Blackburn co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act to legally recognize the right to life by extending 14th amendment protections to unborn children. Senator Blackburn believes so strongly in protecting the unborn that she introduced the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act as her first legislative action after being sworn in to the U.S. Senate in 2019. This bill would close the federal loophole that allows Big Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood to receive taxpayer dollars.

While Big Abortion groups claim that the federal funds they receive are not used for abortions, money is fungible, and the American people deserve to know whether their hard-earned dollars are being used to aid this life-ending practice. In 2022, Senator Blackburn led 144 of her congressional colleagues in requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) produce a report detailing all federal funding for Planned Parenthood and its Big Abortion affiliates. This report, which was released in December 2023, revealed that nearly $2 billion in federal taxpayer funding had been funneled to abortion providers from Fiscal Year 2019 to Fiscal Year 2021.

Senator Blackburn believes Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was a major victory for life that returned the power to We the People and gave each state the authority to create laws to protect life. Following the Supreme Court’s momentous ruling, she introduced a resolution celebrating the pro-life movement and the volunteers who have supported mothers and children for the past 50 years.

Senator Blackburn introduced the Unborn Child Support Act to allow mothers to receive child support payments while they are pregnant and ensure access to necessary financial resources. She also celebrated pro-life volunteers, renewed her pledge to continue fighting for the unborn, and called on states to help protect life.

She also advocated for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, which became law and prohibits any medical provider from performing a partial-birth abortion. Senator Blackburn successfully pushed for the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004, which was signed into law and created an additional federal offense for killing or injuring an unborn child. She has supported legislation to prohibit discrimination-by-abortion against unborn children with Down syndrome as well as legislation preventing abortion on the basis of sex.