February 13, 2026
“A reckless Chemical Abortion Pill-pushing policy exposes mothers to abusers, who use the deadly drugs against them without their knowledge or consent. This also supersizes the risk of injury, infertility, and death for women taking Chemical Abortion Pills all alone and without help. Add to that the environmental harms from chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue, along with human remains, all flushed into West Virginia’s waterways, and we have a perfect storm of disaster,” said Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “This bill will target the new abortion cartels operating in the Mountain State and those pocketing money made from human tragedy.”
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CHARLESTON, W.V. (02-13-2025) — Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins applauded the recent roll call vote on the SFLAction-inspired “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” (SB173), which if signed into law would impose criminal & civil penalties on Chemical Abortion Pill vendors prescribing and shipping the deadly pills within and into West Virginia.
Senators passed the “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” by a vote of 31-1. “Innovation at the state level proves that elections matter, and we applaud those legislators who prioritized protecting women from abusers and injury, and we ask the state house to do the same. We will be educating voters about how their leaders did in protecting Life, as Chemical Abortion Pills are the number one method of death by intentional abortion,” said Hawkins.
SFLAction was heavily involved in the introduction and support of the “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act,” introduced by Sen. Chris Rose. Students for Life of America (SFLA) West Virginia State Captain Thomas Dinkel testified at both committee hearings, and Hawkins testified at a second committee hearing.
The Youth Vote supports this type of legislation in a January 2026 Students for Life of America’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement poll released and conducted by Survey USA, with 94% of youth voters saying a federal review of Chemical Abortion Pill policy was important, 94% supporting Abortion Water Pollution testing, and half saying they would support in-person dispensing requirements for Chemical Abortion Pills to protect women from abuse. Only 27% oppose in-person dispensing requirements.
If passed, here’s what the “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” will do in West Virginia:
- Prohibit mailing, shipping, or prescribing abortifacients, including from out-of-state sources.
- Enforce felony charges punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment or damages of $10,000 for each abortion that the person or entity knowingly and willfully performed or attempted to perform on a woman.
- Reinforce state sovereignty over medical regulation.
- Provide remedies including injunctive relief in damages per violation with no legal cap on rewards received and recovery of court costs and attorney’s fees. The bill excludes convicted abusers, traffickers, and rapists from bringing such civil actions.
- Allow civil actions to be filed up to three years after the cause of action or one year after any legal stay is lifted.
SFLAction has been extremely active in West Virginia throughout the past several years, educating voters and engaging lawmakers. During this past legislative session:
- SFLA/SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins testified in favor of SB 85, the “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act.”
- SB 85 “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” (Senate), sponsored by Pro-Life Champion Sen. Patricia Rucker, passed in the Senate by a 28-5 vote.
- HB 2461 “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” (House) was introduced.
- SFLA/SFLAction student group visited West Virginia Senator Shelly Capito to support federal efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion vendors.
- West Virginia Watch took notice when Kristan Hawkins testified that the “Unborn Child Protection Act” in the Mountain State would make it easier to charge physicians and entities that send abortion medication to states where the procedure is not legal.
- Kristan Hawkins and WV State Senator Patricia Rucker held a townhall — The Mountain State Trailblazed a New Frontier With Pro-Life Anti-Trafficking Efforts.
SFLAction supported the pro-life vote for the “Abortion-Inducing Drugs Act” as part of the broader Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap launched last November as a legal and legislative strategy to take down abortion at the state and federal level built upon the Gonzales v. Carhart case.
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The Pro-Life Generation (PLG) is an umbrella organization encompassing the most-cutting edge engagement opportunities for a Vote Pro-Life First Community. PLG includes Students for Life Action (SFLAction), a 501c4, along with its 501c3 sister organization, Students for Life of America (SFLA), that together make up the nation’s largest, pro-life youth organization, managing a grassroots political and policy operation engaging Americans of all ages but with a special emphasis on the largest segment of voters — the Youth Vote. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, PLG/SFLA/SFLAction serves more than 1,400 groups on middle, high school, college, medical, and law school campuses in all 50 states. Our team has more conversations with this generation targeted by the abortion lobby than any other pro-life operation in the world, each week reaching more than 4 million across social media platforms and averaging 1.3 million video views. In addition to SFLA/SFLAction, PLG leads multiple initiatives to lead and serve the future of the pro-life movement including the Campaign for Abortion Free Cities, Standing With You, and the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement . Over more than 17 years, PLG CEO Kristan Hawkins has grown the operation into a nearly $20M organization, now preparing for an abortion-free America.