Pro-life canvassers top 2 million home visits in 2026 battlegrounds

Susan B. Anthony (SBA) Pro-Life America and its partner Women Speak Out PAC announced July 27 that their Voter Contact Program has surpassed 2 million visits to voters’ homes in key 2026 battleground races.

Student canvassers representing more than 100 universities conducted 1 million of those visits, according to an SBA Pro-Life America press release. The broader campaign targets low-turnout and persuadable voters in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Montana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and other states where control of the U.S. House and Senate and the election of governors are at stake.

Zeale News reported in March that the organization was devoting $3.25 million to its Ohio campaign alone, including door-knocking near Toledo, Cincinnati, and Dayton, in support of Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, and other pro-life candidates.

SBA Pro-Life America and Women Speak Out PAC plan to reach 10.5 million voters during the 2025-2026 election cycle through door-knocking, digital advertising, voter-contact mail, and early-vote campaigns. Their original $80 million plan, announced in November 2025, called for 4.5 million home visits, meaning the groups have completed about 44% of their door-to-door goal.

“We’re proud of our tremendous pro-life field team who’ve been on the ground for months talking to voters face to face at their doors, reaching ordinary citizens in ways ads cannot,” SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in the release. “America is at a crossroads when it comes to protecting the unalienable right to life for all people.”

Dannenfelser said the campaign seeks to mobilize voters who already oppose abortion and persuade others to make abortion policy a deciding factor in their electoral choices. 

“Through these millions of persuasive conversations, our canvassers continue to find that the extremism of the Democrats and their no-limits, all-trimester abortion agenda are as unpopular as ever,” she said. “In competitive House and Senate races across the country, our data and experience prove the voters we reach can deliver the crucial margin of victory.”

Student canvasser Kendall Hadley argued that the young volunteers are well positioned to change perceptions of both the pro-life movement and the candidates it opposes.

“Young Americans are increasingly pro-life so it’s no surprise students are a superpower behind the biggest pro-life ground game ever,” Hadley said in the release. “When people hear our message at the doors, and they learn how extreme some of our laws and elected officials are on abortion, hearts and minds can change right in front of us, and it’s a powerful gateway to get to talk about the value of all human life.”

The stakes for pro-life voters extend beyond candidate races. Voters in four states — Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia — are now scheduled to decide abortion-related ballot measures on Nov. 3. As Zeale News previously reported, measures in Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia have qualified for the ballot. 

The Idaho initiative would create a statutory “right to abortion” before fetal viability, while Nevada and Virginia voters will also consider pro-abortion constitutional amendments. Missouri’s 2026 Amendment 3 moves in the opposite direction: It would repeal the abortion-rights amendment approved in 2024, permit stronger pro-life laws, and allow abortion in cases of medical emergency, fetal anomaly, rape, or incest, with a 12-week limit for the rape and incest exceptions. It would also prohibit “gender transition” procedures for minors.

The ballot campaigns could also affect turnout in closely contested federal and state races. As Zeale News previously reported, pro-abortion groups have treated referenda as a way to mobilize younger and independent voters. Reproductive Freedom for All announced a record $23.5 million midterm effort aimed at independents, soft Republicans, and split-ticket voters in several battleground states.

The November elections also arrive amid unresolved federal battles over mail-order abortion drugs and taxpayer funding for abortion providers. The Supreme Court allowed mail-order distribution of mifepristone to continue in May while a legal challenge proceeds. The ruling leaves in place Biden-era rules that allow the abortion drug to be prescribed via telehealth and shipped by mail.

Congress, meanwhile, failed this spring to extend a one-year restriction on Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood and other large abortion providers. A proposal from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., fell short in the Senate in April, and the restriction expired July 4.

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Dannenfelser said SBA’s field team cannot sustain pro-life enthusiasm on its own if Republican officials fail to advance pro-life policies. She cited a February Cygnal survey of 1,000 likely Republican primary voters in which 32% said they would be less enthusiastic about voting in November if Republican leaders abandoned pro-life policies. 

“At SBA we are doing our part in motivating pro-life voters,” Dannenfelser said. “Republican leaders in D.C. must also do their part in taking pro-life action so the base shows up in November.”

She added that “getting abortion drugs out of the mail and renewing the defunding of Big Abortion should be ethical and political priorities for Republicans.”