Last Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs won the highly coveted Super Bowl in the US after Harrison Butker kicked a 27-yard field goal to put the Chiefs ahead of the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in the dying moments of the game.
As well as being a renowned NFL player, Butker is also a proud and vocal supporter of the pro-life movement.
In a recent interview he said: “My success in football has given me a pedestal and I feel a responsibility to raise awareness to different issues.”
With regard to the right to life he said: “It is essential to enshrine the protection of all human life [in law] where all human children are protected at every stage of life.” He made his views known as the abortion issue was being debated in Kansas following the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade – making it possible once again to introduce legal protection for unborn babies across the US.