April 10, 2026
South Dakota and Mississippi are the first two states to pass Students for Life Action’s (SFLAction) “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” this year, with SD Gov. Larry Rhoden already having officially signed the legislation into law and MS Gov. Tate Reeves expected to sign.
SFLAction has worked tirelessly to get this legislation introduced and passed to stop Chemical Abortion Pill vendors from sending Chemical Abortion Pills within and into states, including in violation of states’ pro-life laws already on the books.
Christianity Today highlighted the legislation and SFLAction’s efforts, including against opposition in pro-life states, writing:
One of the most significant pro-life legislative campaigns this spring, for instance, which has the support of Students for Life Action, is to get conservative state legislatures to pass laws restricting the distribution of abortion pills.
This proposal, which has been introduced in multiple conservative states, targets abortion providers by allowing the state attorney general to take legal action against those who unlawfully send abortion-inducing drugs into the state. One variation of the proposed bill would also allow women who use abortion pills, as well as their family members, to also bring lawsuits against the abortion pill prescribers.
The proposed legislation specifically exempts women who obtain abortions through drugs from being prosecuted, so activists have marketed it as a mainstream pro-life effort—rather than an “abortion abolitionist” approach—that will save unborn lives and protect women from telehealth abortion providers who cannot assist their patients in emergencies or other serious health complications from the drugs.
But even in strongly Republican, heavily pro-life states, the proposed legislation has faced substantial obstacles. Last year, Republican senate leaders in Oklahoma refused to bring one such bill to a floor vote even after it passed in the state house of representatives by a vote of 77–9. Students for Life Action blamed this defeat partly on the actions of one abortion abolitionist state senator who tried unsuccessfully to amend the bill to allow women who obtained abortions to be criminally prosecuted, a politically unpopular measure that divides pro-life Republicans.
Legislation modeled after and inspired by SFLAction’s “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” has been introduced in NINE states this year (Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and West Virginia).
Texas signed the legislation into law last year, and now with South Dakota and Mississippi joining the ranks, the momentum is building to confront Big Abortion’s Death by Mail agenda, including its plot to target pro-life states by mailing the deadly drugs from pro-abortion states across state lines.
Christianity Today’s article details the comeuppance of “shield laws,” which the “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” aims to overcome, and the role the federal government (via the FDA) needs to play:
The federal government could override these varying and competing legal situations by making telehealth prescriptions of abortion pills illegal. The government legalized this practice only in 2021, during the Biden administration, and the Trump administration has continued that policy.
The federal government could also restrict the sale of abortion pills more broadly. But that seems unlikely in the near term, as the Trump administration’s Food and Drug Administration expanded these sales by approving a new version of the abortion drug mifepristone last October.
SFLAction is calling on the FDA to correct its rescindment removal of restrictions on the deadly drugs which resulted in the dangerous, little-to-no-oversight mailing of Chemical Abortion Pills rampant across the country. We’re also calling on the DOJ to enforce federal law against Chemical Abortion Pill vendors violating the Comstock Act by sending the deadly drugs in the mail — even into pro-life states against those pro-life states’ abortion limit laws.
READ MORE: BREAKING: Students for Life Challenges FDA Over Generic Abortion Pill Approval
The “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act” seeks to accomplish what the DOJ has so far failed to do: pProsecute Chemical Abortion Pill vendors who are illegally trafficking the deadly drugs against the Comstock Act and state abortion limit laws.
READ MORE: DOJ Slow-Walks Chemical Abortion Action—Again
South Dakota and Mississippi are just the tip of the iceberg. SFLAction will not stop until the new abortion drug cartel is stopped, and abortion is illegal and unthinkable.
READ the Full Christianity Today Article Here