Pro-lifers visit millions of homes in battleground states ahead of midterms

One of the leading pro-life grassroots organizations in the United States says it's canvassers have made millions of home visits in swing states ahead of November's midterm elections, seeking to shape abortion policy at both the state and federal levels.

In a statement Tuesday, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said that it and its partner organization, Women Speak Out PAC, have visited 3 million homes in battleground states and districts expected to decide control of the U.S. Congress and key gubernatorial races.

Student canvassers from more than 100 colleges and universities participated in the effort, with young activists making 1.4 million home visits. SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser believes that the dialogue can make all the difference in close races.

“The Democrats are no longer the party of safe, legal and rare — they have a national agenda for abortion at any point, everywhere. Through our voter outreach, we are making sure their abortion extremism costs the Left on Election Day,” she said.

“Every day, our canvassers are having meaningful face-to-face conversations exposing Democrats’ stance and convincing voters to cast their votes against candidates who endorse abortion in the seventh, eighth and ninth months.”

Last year, SBA Pro-Life America said that it planned to spend $80 million on pro-life candidates in the 2026 elections and target 10.5 million pro-life voters across the U.S. This outreach includes canvassing, digital advertising, voter contact mail and an early vote campaign.

The group is still aiming to reach 10.5 million voters before Election Day on Nov. 3.

This year’s midterms will put all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives on the ballot, along with 35 U.S. Senate seats and 36 governorships. SBA Pro-Life America's outreach is concentrated in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Montana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. All of those states except Montana and North Carolina will elect governors this year, and all except Wisconsin have a U.S. Senate race.

In a memo sent in August to Republican candidates for state and federal office, Dannenfelser wrote, “Our message testing in swing races this cycle shows that going on offense to call out Democrats’ extremism on late-term abortion moves the margin 4-5 points towards the pro-life candidate.”

“Elective abortion through all trimesters is the mainstream position of Democratic elected officials and politicians," the memo states. It also cites polls showing that most Americans think abortion should be illegal in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.

The House Democrats' Cost-of-Living Healthcare Working Group sent a memo to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., outlining the legislation it wants prioritized if Democrats regain control of one or both chambers of Congress in the midterms.

The memo, dated Sept. 1, calls for passing the Women’s Health Protection Act and the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act within the first 100 hours of the 120th Congress. The former bill, which passed the House in 2022 but failed in the Senate, seeks to legalize abortion nationwide before fetal viability and to allow abortions after viability when the pregnancy poses a “risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health.”

The Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act would require Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and all other federally sponsored healthcare programs to cover abortion.

Democrats lead the generic ballot asking voters which party they want to control the U.S. House by an average of 7.9 percentage points, according to polls compiled Wednesday by RealClearPolitics.

Democrats also lead the polling averages in several Senate races at the center of SBA Pro-Life America’s outreach. They lead in North Carolina by an average of 9 percentage points and in Georgia by an average of 7.8 points, with narrower leads of 3.5 points in Ohio, 3.2 points in Michigan and .7 points in Iowa.

Republicans hold 53 of the Senate’s 100 seats, so Democrats need to flip at least four Republican-held seats without losing any of their own to take control. In the House, Republicans hold a razor-thin majority, so Democrats would need to flip only a few seats to take control.