April 29, 2025
HISTORIC FIRST: Texas Passes Students for Life Action’s “Women and Child Protection Act,” Curtailing Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking in a Senate Floor Vote
After First Passing in the Senate State Affairs Committee, a Bill Prohibiting Distribution of Chemical Abortions Pills Bill Passes 19 to 11 on the Senate Floor; A Similar Measure also in the Texas House State Affairs Committee, Waiting for a Vote
“The ‘Women and Child Protection Act’ represents a missing link in the fight to protect preborn babies and their mothers from abusers and their friends in the abortion business. Chemical Abortion Pill pushers willfully break laws designed to protect the vulnerable. This Students for Life-inspired measure follows our ‘Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap,’ detailing a legal path forward in opposition to the number one method and means of abortion in America – Chemical Abortion Pills,” said Students for Life Action’s Kristan Hawkins. “We are celebrating this historic first – a floor vote on the Texas Senate Floor – and now we head to the Texas State House to do it again.”
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AUSTIN, TX (04-29-2025) – Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins called today’s win in the Texas State Senate “more proof that grassroots engagement represents one of the most critical needs in America today.” The Students-for-Life-inspired Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Act, Senate Bill 2880, known as the Women and Child Protection Act passed by a vote of 19 to 11. The Senate version of the measure, sponsored by State Sen. Bryan Hughes, passed out of the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee in a 10-1 vote on April 22. A companion bill championed by Rep. Jeff Leach is in the Texas House State Affairs Committee, waiting for further consideration.
“The Pro-Life Generation has worked in states across the country, as well as in Washington D.C., demanding that legislators address the horrific issues with Chemical Abortion Pills, now the number one cause of abortion death in America,” said Hawkins.
Ironically, the bill advances as breaking news is revealed about the devastating harm women exposed to the dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills may experience.
As we reported earlier: “A new study out from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), titled “The Abortion Pill Harms Women,” finds that it’s so much worse than the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) admits. Two new truths are now available to address old lies. Most importantly, we now know this: ‘Serious adverse events from mifepristone are approximately 22 times more frequent’ than the FDA reports, which means that more than 1 in 10 patients will ‘experience at least one serious adverse event.’”
On April 25, the House version of the Women and Child Protection Act was heard in the Texas House State Affairs Committee, where Students for Life of America’s Kristi Hamrick delivered testimony in support of the bill.
“We know that these pills expose women to injury, infertility, and death, and this reckless model empowers abusers,” Hamrick argued.
Hamrick highlighted the devastating consequences of policies that permit the widespread distribution of chemical abortion pills with little to no oversight. “Chemical Abortion Pills expose women to injury, infertility, and death, through the reckless policies set up by three Democratic Party Administrations.”
Chemical Abortion Pills also empower abusers to administer the drugs without a woman’s knowledge or consent, Hamrick noted. She pointed to a tragic example, where courts revealed that “state Sen. Thomas Pressly’s sister, Catherine Herring of Houston, was exposed to the drugs.”
In addition to enabling abusers to give drugs, these Chemical Abortion Pills raise serious environmental concerns. When used at home, the process can result in chemically tainted blood, placental tissue, and human remains being flushed into the water system, posing a threat to public health and environmental safety.
Gen Z and Gen Y registered voters overwhelmingly support protections like those in this legislation, according to a SFLA and Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement YouGov/SurveyUSApoll released in January. By margins of 9 in 10 or more, young voters favor environmental safeguards and health and safety standards for Chemical Abortion Pills.
The Texas bills would prohibit Online, No Test Chemical Abortion Pill Traffickers from distributing these dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills if enacted, and it would also allow civil action against those who engage in pill trafficking.
ALSO IN TEXAS: SFLAction supports Texas Senate Bill 1976 as well as Texas House Bill 3734, both of which call for regular testing of Texas’ water to check for the levels of Chemical Abortion Pill water pollution.
For an overview of the efforts to curtail the weaponized abuse of agencies in favor of the abortion industry, read: Students for Life Action Calls on FDA Commissioner Nominee to Address the Weaponized Agency that Pushed Chemical Abortion Pills over Patient Safety – both Mother & Preborn Child
For more on Texas, read: Students for Life of America’s Kristi Hamrick to Testify in Texas on Bills That Would Prohibit Dangerous Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking
LEARN MORE about deadly Chemical Abortion Pills at THIS IS CHEMICAL ABORTION.
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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 1,500 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 more than $20M organization, now preparing for an abortion-free America.