The University professes Jesus, puts “Christian” in its mission statement, charges $50,000 a year in tuition, and then sends students to intern at Planned Parenthood. What exactly is that University professing? Because it is not professing Christ!
There is a stunning new report showing that one in seven “Christian” colleges and universities in America have active ties to the abortion industry. Those statistics aren’t getting better since Roe v. Wade was overturned; they are getting worse.
It is important that we define terms. Abortion is the deliberate ending of a human life—full stop. That is not a clump of cells in a mother’s womb; it is a human baby in its earliest stages of development. We shouldn’t have to define that, but here we are. No amount of linguistic gymnastics will change that immutable fact.
The Demetree Institute for Pro Life Advancement, the research arm of Students For Life Of America, investigated 725 Christian colleges and universities across the United States during the 2024-2025 academic year. 114 schools—one in seven—that are “affiliated with Christ-centered denominations that publicly claim a historical Christian foundation” had some relationship with the abortion industry in general, or the nation’s largest abortion vendor, Planned Parenthood.
As part of the survey, researchers reviewed school websites for what they called “infractions.” This included the promotion of internships at abortion providers, listing Planned Parenthood as a health or pregnancy “resource,” advertising related events or volunteer opportunities using abortion industry material in their classes, or expressing direct support for abortion.
The research uncovered that abortion supporting activity in “Christian” schools is up close to 20% since 2022, and almost 39% since last year.
533 total infractions were documented, “the highest recorded in four years of this project’s consecutive research.” Let that sink in. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, when the moment the pro-life movement had its largest victory in decades, Christian schools became ground zero—more connected to abortion, not less.
Let’s think about this theologically, for just a moment. The pro-abortion side loses an enormous battle, and instead of retreating, pushes harder into the church. That isn’t a coincidence; that is a strategy.
Consider a female “pastor” who says she felt “God’s presence” while she decided to end two pregnancies.
“As a woman who has borne two children, I can affirm that I felt something sacred happening in my gestating body during those pregnancies. I can also attest that I felt God’s presence with me as I made the decision to end two pregnancies,” she said. “And I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin. While the liminal space of my womb, and all fertile wombs, represents the possibility of creating new life, if pregnancy and gestation are to remain holy mysteries, they require cooperation. A forced pregnancy or birth is not holy.”
The Devil’s evil, but he isn’t dumb. Satan already owns Hollywood, academia, and mainstream media. What the Devil, Planned Parenthood, and the abortion industry want is a foothold in the church—specifically, the next generation of the church. Sadly, some so-called “Christians” are opening the door.
The report graded schools on a scale from “A+” (no infractions and active promotion of local pregnancy centers) to “F” (4 or more infractions). They gave failing grades to 47 schools.
American University in Washington, DC, billed as a student-centered research institution in the heart of the nation’s capital, was number one with 34 infractions in 2025. It was chartered by Congress in 1893. According to the Christian Schools Project, “American University supports Youth Empowerment and Reproductive Health in New Orleans, and the Louisiana Spring Alternative Break program, which includes working with Planned Parenthood.”
Planned Parenthood indoctrination is the reason many young people today on college campuses sound just like medical student Madalynn Welch from Wisconsin.
“I think abortion should be unrestrictive,” she insisted to state lawmakers. “And I think when somebody finds out in pregnancy when – how far along that they are – when someone finds out, they should be able to get an abortion if they want to. And for some people, that is full term. If I can’t get abortion training here, if I can’t perform abortions in my career, I will not stay in Wisconsin. And a lot of my colleagues who are on the same track agree.”
I want to share with you a scientific fact, not an opinion. A baby at full term feels pain, can hear his or her mother or father, they kick, they hiccup, can suck their thumb, and yes, can survive outside the womb. That is who the medical student was talking about.
Which brings us to the spiritual component. This isn’t just a policy problem; this is a theological war.
Paul said something in Galatians 5:9 that needs to be framed and hung on the door of every Christian college or university: “A little leaven leavens the whole lump.”
What does that mean? In practice, you don’t have to convert the entire student body to Planned Parenthood’s worldview; that’s not realistic. You just have to get your foot in the door. Simply allow Planned Parenthood to be listed under health resources or an internship option, and wait. What does leaven do? It quietly works to leaven the entire lump of dough.
If you can get a 20-year-old Christian student to normalize and rationalize abortion as health care, you haven’t just changed their mind, you’ve changed their theology, and that theology will be preached from future pulpits and Sunday schools.
The pro-life movement isn’t built for comfort; it’s built for victory. Part of that victory requires going directly into the institutions that are supposed to be on our side and demanding that they act like it.
A school that partners with abortion service providers is not a Christian school. There is no nuanced middle ground. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. A little bit of Planned Parenthood, just a tiny bit, is completely unacceptable. The leaven doesn’t stay in one part of the dough. It spreads throughout the whole thing.
Parents, it’s time for you to start asking questions.
I don’t want to give you all bad news. There is good news. During the 2024 and 2025 school year, 50 ties between Christian schools and Planned Parenthood were severed thanks to direct student intervention, parent advocacy, and public awareness generated by the Christian Schools Project—though these ties never should have been there in the first place. This is how the correction happens, through public pressure, through adults demanding accountability, and through donors withholding their paychecks.
Psalm 139:13 is not a metaphor: “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.” That is a fact from the creator of the universe in whose image we bear.
The battle for the next generation of the church isn’t lost, but it won’t be won by people who are too polite to name what we’re looking at: a spiritual invasion that requires confrontation. Now is a moment to step up and speak up boldly.
The 114 “Christian” schools with ties to abortion are not operating in a vacuum. They are operating in a cultural moment where, since the Dobbs decision, the left has been on a full-scale, panicked, offensive. Looking for a new frontier, they set their sights on Christian colleges and universities—and Biblically compromised institutions gladly took the bait.
I encourage you to do your research, speak up against “Christian” schools failing this basic test, and support those getting it right. I also encourage you to pray. This war is not ultimately fought in faculty senates and Career Services Offices. It’s fought in the heavenly realms.
The side that shows up with truth and the courage to call on the God of the universe is the side that has never, and will never, ultimately lose. If the other side dares to profess the lie that abortion is health care. How can we not show up to profess the truth?
