Pro-life group weighing legal action after being placed on extremist database alongside 'Hamas, KKK'

A pro-life group is considering taking legal action after its members were placed on a database that tracks extremists within the U.S.

Students for Life of America, or "SFLA," was named in a University of Maryland project called the "Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States" or "PIRUS," The College Fix first reported. The database tracks "over 3,500 violent and non-violent extremists who adhere to far-right, far-left, Islamist, or single-issue ideologies in the United States covering 1948-2022," according to its website.

PIRUS is run by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or "START," a research center led by the University of Maryland listed as a Department of Homeland Security Emeritus Center of Excellence. Centers of Excellence, or COEs, are defined by the DHS as "university-led research networks that anticipate threats and challenges to the homeland and its operations."

Students for Life said it was "surprised" to find the group's name on the database's non-alphabetized list. "It’s almost like they didn’t want us to see it. But an eagle-eyed student noticed," the group reported.

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On April 9, SFLA responded by sending a cease-and-desist letter to START, demanding it remove the group from the list "immediately."

"Inclusion of SFLA on this terrorist and extremist list has conveyed to the world that SFLA should be treated as a dangerous threat. This unduly stigmatizes SFLA, which is not a terrorist or extremist group," the legal letter exclusively shared with Fox News Digital read.

The database listed two members of SFLA under its "Group or Movement Affiliation"