(LifeSiteNews) — Republican Senator Deb Fischer recently attended a lobbying party hosted by homosexual hookup app Grindr.

The party appears to have been held last weekend as part of a number of events leading up to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The Plains Sentinel identified Fischer as the only senator at the party. Her former chief of staff, Joe Hack, is the top lobbyist for the app.

The gay sex app is launching into politics, pushing for “surrogacy and IVF access for same-sex couples,” according to Politico.

“We’ve been doing policy work here now for a year, and the issues we care about are important not just to us, but to our community,” Hack told Politico.

Massive crowd of DC elite turn out for Grindr’s first ever pre-White House Correspondents’ Dinner party. pic.twitter.com/647jy2bOjp

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LifeSiteNews contacted Craig Wheeler, the communications director for Fischer, asking why she attended the party and what guidelines she would put in place to halt any inappropriate lobbying by her former chief of staff.

He did not respond to an email on Wednesday morning.

However, an advocate for the rights of children said that Fischer’s support for Grindr conflicts with the senator’s strong pro-life voting record.

“You can either defend the rights of children or defend an industry that profits from ending their lives,” Samantha DeLoach told LifeSiteNews via email. “You can’t support both.”

She is a spokeswoman for Them Before Us, which defends the rights of children, including to be raised by their biological parents.

She continued:

When a public official aligns herself with platforms and industries that normalize sexual commodification or advocate for practices like IVF that intentionally separate children from their biological parents, it raises serious concerns about whether children’s rights are truly being prioritized.

Children have a right to life. They have a right to be known and loved by their mother and father. Policies and industries that treat children as products of adult desire – whether through commodified sexuality or reproductive technologies – violate those rights.

While it is good to be against abortion, pro-lifers must also oppose IVF, she said.

“IVF is often known as the baby-making industry, but the truth is that it takes more lives than the abortion industry does,” she said. “Millions.”

She concluded, “Life begins at fertilization. If we are serious about protecting children, that commitment must extend to every stage of life and every circumstance of their creation, whether in a womb or a petri dish.”

Fischer has a record of supporting embryo-destroying IVF, which almost always involves killing off human-embryonic children.

“Like my Republican colleagues, I strongly support IVF, which has made that dream (of parenthood) a reality for millions of Americans, including my extended family,” Fischer said in 2024.