April 1, 2026
“Gov. Tate Reeves has the chance to protect preborn babies and their mothers by signing House Bill 1613 with the included ‘Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act’ amendment designed to go after illegal pill pushers distributing death-by-mail,” said Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “Abusers love the easy access to Chemical Abortion Pills. With this bill, Mississippi sends a strong message to all trying to subvert the law to end life; The Magnolia State won’t ignore the new abortion cartel.”
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JACKSON, MS. (04-01-2026) – Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins celebrated the passage of House Bill 1613 (HB1613) in the Mississippi Senate, amended by Rep. Dan Eubanks (R), who sponsored the bill, to include language from SFLAction’s model legislation, the “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act.” The Senate advanced HB1613 by a vote of 24-7. Both chambers have now passed and concurred on the bill. It will now be sent to Gov. Tate Reeves’s desk for signature. If signed into law, Mississippi would become the second state this year to pass an “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act,” part of SFLAction’s push to end the nation’s most common method of abortion today.
Mississippi’s pro-life laws embrace both mother and child, protecting Life completely, with provisions for abortion in cases of rape or incest or if a mother’s life is in danger. Pro-life doctors and medical professionals have been very clear that an abortion designed to end a baby’s life would not be employed for that purpose, though in maternal-fetal separation, the baby may not live after delivery in an attempt to save both lives. LEARN MORE HERE.
ON INSTAGRAM: Hear Kristan Hawkins talk about abortion & life of the mother cases.
“Chemical Abortion Pill pushers have been clear that their intent is to violate laws like those in Mississippi, and they target pro-life states. By signing this bill, Gov. Tate Reeves can defend the lives of babies in the womb and his pro-life state law,” said Hawkins. “Mississippi has been innovative in taking down Big Abortion and going after those pushing Chemical Abortion Pills. This effort will continue the work of Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who successfully took down Roe v. Wade and has called for the Comstock Act to be enforced against Chemical Abortion Pill vendors due to the FDA’s flawed allowance of mailing the deadly pills.”
Chemical Abortion Pills are used to commit more than 60% of abortions, killing hundreds of thousands of children and seriously injuring up to 1 in 8 mothers who use them. Pro-life states like Mississippi are being openly targeted by Chemical Abortion Pill vendors.
The Mississippi legislature’s passage of HB1613 with the amendment based on SFLAction’s “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” aligns with what voters want.
According to a January 2026 Students for Life’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement poll conducted and released by Survey USA, half of the Youth Vote support protecting women from abuse with in-person dispensing requirements for Chemical Abortion Pills, with only 27% against. More than 9 in 10 support reinstating health and safety standards that have been stripped away from Chemical Abortion Pills, leaving women at risk for infertility, injury, death, and abuse by those who dose women with the deadly pills without their consent.
And according to a February Cygnal poll, Republican voters want action on pro-life legislation, too, with 32% stating they are less likely to vote in the upcoming midterms if they feel the GOP is not addressing abortion.
Here is what the HB1613 with the amendment inspired by SFLAction’s “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” would do in Mississippi:
- Prohibit mailing, shipping, or prescribing Chemical Abortion Pills, including out-of-state sources.
- Enforce civil punishments up to $25,000 per violation, as well as a minimum of $5,000 and a year in prison, or a maximum of up to $50,000 and 25 years in prison, for trafficking Chemical Abortion Pills in Mississippi.
- 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 is encouraging Mississippi to join us in calling on Gov. Reeves to sign HB1613 into law to protect the preborn children and women of Mississippi.
SFLAction’s push to get HB1613 with the amendment based on SFLAction’s “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” introduced and passed is part of our larger Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap. Launched last November, this legislative package built upon the Gonzales v. Carhart case will help take down abortion at the state and federal level.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT STUDENTS FOR LIFE ACTION’S “MAKE AMERICA PRO-LIFE AGAIN ROADMAP,” CLICK HERE.
SFLAction has been extremely active in legislative sessions throughout the past several years, educating voters and engaging lawmakers. During the Spring 2025 legislative session in states across America, SFLAction:
- Tracked and monitored over 1,100 abortion-related bills
- Drove efforts on 25 pro-life and pro-abortion bills across 16 states
- Introduced 20 SFLAction-inspired bills
- Testified in committees in five states: Arkansas, Maine, Montana, Texas, and West Virginia
- Visited offices of more than 100 state AND federal lawmakers
- Equipped more than 6,000 student leaders to visit more than 100,000 homes in 27 states and urge voters to tell their lawmakers to support pro-life legislation
- Engaged with hundreds of millions of constituents around the country
- Sent over 2,300,000+ personal text messages in support of pro-life bills
- Made 750,000+ phone calls to pro-life constituents
- Generated 20,000+ emails and 750,000+ calls from pro-life constituents to their legislators
- Sent 150,000+ mailers in seven states
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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.