June 4, 2025
A bill headed to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s desk could mandate all public colleges in the state to provide students with dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills that end the lives of preborn babies and put female students at risk.
Illinois’s state legislature passed House Bill 3709 on Saturday, May 31st advancing a deeply troubling agenda to turn college campuses into hubs for death—while disregarding the safety of female students and forcing students to fund it with their own tuition dollars.
Beginning in the 2025–2026 school year, HB 3709 would require public colleges with student health centers to offer access to contraception and Chemical Abortion Pills.
And colleges, including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois Chicago, and Illinois State University all have a mandatory health service fee for students. This means that Illinois students—regardless of their personal beliefs—are likely to be forced to financially support campus health systems that could soon be required to offer this dangerous Chemical Abortion Pill.
Bills like HB 3709 aren’t about helping women—they’re about normalizing abortion, while sidelining pro-life students and activists.
This bill follows the lead of California’s Senate Bill 24 (2019), Massachusetts’ H. 2399 (2022), and New York’s S1213A (2023)—all which require public colleges with student health centers to offer Chemical Abortion Pills on campus.
It’s no surprise Illinois’s legislature is following the radical blueprint laid out by states like California, New York, and Massachusetts, as they push for policies that treat abortion as routine and college campuses as distribution centers for death.
Chemical Abortion Pills present a serious health risk to women, as new research from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) reveals that mifepristone leads to severe complications—including sepsis and hemorrhaging—in nearly 11% of women.
READ MORE: New Study Finds Chemical Abortion More Dangerous than FDA Admits
Keeping Chemical Abortion Pills off college campuses is crucial—not only to protect the purpose of education, but also to protect young women. These drugs are pushed as quick solutions, but when serious complications arise, campuses aren’t equipped to help. Too many women are left alone, scared, and suffering because no one stuck around after the “sale.”
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And that’s not “health care”—it’s abandonment disguised as empowerment.
Women deserve real support, not a pill and a pamphlet before being sent back to their dorm rooms to bleed alone. They deserve to be heard, cared for, and given life-affirming options—not left behind by an industry that pretends easy access equals compassion.
Pro-life activist Toni McFadden shared her personal experience with the Chemical Abortion Pill to highlight the risks associated with its use on college campuses. As a high school senior, she took the Chemical Abortion Pill and was sent home with minimal guidance. Weeks later, she endured severe pain and heavy bleeding, all alone and without medical support.
McFadden told students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst that no one warned her about the emotional and physical pain that would follow, and she, along with the UMass Students for Life of America (SFLA) group, changed 17 minds on the issue back in 2023, a year after the bill to “require public universities to provide medication abortion” passed in the legislature.
Giving out Chemical Abortion Pills like candy doesn’t solve anything—it harms women and forces them to manage serious medical complications alone. SFLA and Students for Life Action (SFLAction) will continue exposing the risks of Chemical Abortion Pills, empowering student leaders to bring the truth to their peers and demanding that schools prioritize real healthcare and support for pregnant students.