May 8, 2025
With conviction in her voice, Students for Life Action’s (SFLAction)’s Kristi Hamrick presented compelling testimony at the Texas Capitol Friday, April 25th, boldly championing the Students-for-Life-inspired, Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Act House Bill 5510. If enacted, House Bill 5510 — also called the Women and Child Protection Act—would prohibit Online, No Test Chemical Abortion Pill traffickers from distributing these dangerous pills and would allow civil action against them.
But the road to testifying on the bill wasn’t smooth—with Hamrick facing repeated delays and having to contend with pro-abortion witches and other activists present at the hearing. This wasn’t just another policy debate—it was a fight for the lives of women and their preborn children.
Around 7:15AM Central Time, Hamrick arrived at the Texas Capitol. She signed up to testify at 7:30AM before the Texas House State Affairs Committee on the Women and Child Protection Act—ensuring SFLAction would be heard.
But the hearing on the crucial legislation kept getting postponed. The first part of the meeting began at around 8:00AM, where the bill’s sponsor, Representative Jeff Leach (R), fielded questions from the committee before it went into recess, and the legislators went to the House floor. The hearing then reconvened around 3:00PM, and Hamrick did not speak until around 4:00PM. Throughout the grueling waiting period, she and the other witnesses were required to stay close.
Hamrick reported that, while waiting for the hearing, she and other pro-life advocates attracted attention. “The [pro-abortionists] saw us, pointed at us, and then came back to try to take a table space next to us.”
“We were just together all day, so you’re trying to be careful about what you’re saying,” Hamrick said.
Regarding those in attendance of the House State Affairs Committee hearing, Hamrick noted about “60 percent. . .were pro-abortionists,” while 40 percent were in favor of the Women and Child Protection Act.
Among those gathered at the Capitol that day were even some self-identified “witches,” known by people in Texas for showing up to disrupt hearings—some of whom laughed mockingly as Hamrick warned: “Let me be clear: We are all drinking other people’s abortions in the wastewater.”
Committee Chairman Ken King then struck his gavel three times to restore order.
Hamrick pointed out that she didn’t hear the witches interrupt anybody else’s testimony—just SFLAction’s.
Just a few days after Hamrick gave her testimony before House State Affairs Committee, the Senate passed the companion bill to HB 5510—Senate Bill 2880,sponsored by Sen. Bryan Hughes—in a 19-11 vote Tuesday, April 29, aiming to safeguard women from the risks posed by Chemical Abortion Pills.
Ultimately, Hamrick’s voice in defense of the Women and Child Protection Act shone a light on the truth that these dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills “expose women to injury, infertility, and death.”
Read Hamrick’s Testimony Below:
Thank you, for giving me the opportunity to speak in support of the TX House Bill 5510 & TX Senate Bill 2880, known as the Women and Child Protection Act.
My name is Kristi Hamrick, and I serve as Vice President of Media & Policy for Students for Life Action & Students for Life of America, a 501c3 and 501c4, with more than 1,500 groups in all 50 states, including here in Texas. We have led the way in identifying Chemical Abortion Pill use and abuse as the new frontier of a predatory industry.
I ask for your support in stopping Chemical Abortion Pill trafficking because of the deadly harms this will prevent and address, including abortion water pollution, as chemically tainted blood, placenta tissue, and human remains now go into America’s drinking water, more than 640,000 times a year if you believe the Guttmacher Institute, though I don’t – as we have no National Abortion Reporting Law. Much higher in other countries.
Chemical Abortion Pills expose women to injury, infertility, and death. The reckless model empowers abusers, who can give the deadly pills without women’s knowledge or consent, as was illustrated here in Texas, when Louisiana Senator Thomas Pressly’s sister Catherine Herring of Houston was exposed to the drugs, according to court records.
This model established by the Biden-Harris Administration during COVID is a godsend to abortionists, now shipping pills to homes, dorms, and businesses, bypassing health and safety precautions, mandatory reporting for sex abusers, and environmental protections.
Let me be clear: we are all drinking other people’s abortions in the wastewater.
You don’t have to be pro-life to oppose dumping pathological medical waste into the drinking water. You don’t have to be pro-life to protect women from sex traffickers. You don’t have to be pro-life to care that progesterone blockers in our waterways may be a factor in infertility. Even Planned Parenthood has cautioned against buying Chemical Abortion Pills online.
And want I add one thing. Chemical Abortion Pills are not and never have been contraception. A New York Times profile in 2023, titled “The Father of the Abortion Pill” well described how the unnatural, active metabolites were concocted for an UNPREGNANCY PILL to block a pregnancy. But man, woman, and child needs progesterone.
Whether it’s love of preborn babies, their mothers, or the environment, we need to stop Chemical Abortion Pill Traffickers. The Pro-Life Generation asks for your support of House Bill 5510.