June 3, 2025
The Women and Child Protection Act could have saved more than 13,000 lives in Texas, but lawmakers chose to play politics instead of standing for Life.
SB 2880 and HB 5510 would have cracked down on Online, No Test Chemical Abortion Pill traffickers who are sending these dangerous pills into Texas communities illegally. The bill would have also enabled civil action against those who distribute Chemical Abortion Pills.
So, what happened to the Women and Child Protection Act this session?
On April 22nd, the Senate version of the measure, sponsored by State Sen. Bryan Hughes, passed the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee in a 10-1 vote.
Then on April 25th, Students for Life Action’s (SFLAction) Kristi Hamrick testified passionately in support of the House version of the bill in the House State Affairs Committee, chaired by Chairman Rep. Ken King. Despite growing support, the bill never left the committee.
Five days later, on April 30th, it passed on the Senate floor in a 19-11 vote. Momentum was on our side, but the job was not yet finished.
Building on that momentum, the Pro-Life Generation (PLG) later took on the Texas Legislature to push for the Women and Child Protection Act on May 15th and met with lawmakers to discuss the harms of Chemical Abortion Pills.
“1 in 10 of [women] have reported serious adverse effects from hemorrhaging and having to go to the emergency room,” Students for Life of America (SFLA) Texas Regional Coordinator Faith Elwonger said, citing a study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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That momentum continued to build. On May 23rd, the Women and Child Protection Actpassed out of the House State Affairs Committee in an 8-5 vote—a major victory for pro-life advocates across Texas.
Unfortunately, even after the bill passed out of the House State Affairs Committee, Rep. King refused to move the bill to the Calendar Committee, effectively killing the bill and handing a victory to Chemical Abortion Pill traffickers instead of women and children before the end of session on June 2nd.
And just last month, after the Texas House of Representatives blocked a measure to commemorate the life of former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, who passed away in January, Rep. Ken King stood on the House floor alongside Republicans Reps. Charlie Geren and Drew Darby—and the Democrats—to publicly recognize her.
By aligning himself with Planned Parenthood, that is a grave insult to more than 13,000 preborn babies who are killed every year in Texas by Chemical Abortion Pills—and his constituents who thought they were electing a pro-life legislator.
Even the pro-abortion outlet Slate couldn’t ignore the bill’s impact, calling the Women and Child Protection Act a “twisted” nationwide threat that would “provide a road map for other conservative states” to put an end to Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking, and the abortion lobby knows it. When the pro-abortion media starts panicking, we know we’re doing something right.
Gen Z and Gen Y registered voters overwhelmingly support protections like those in this bill, according to a poll by SFLA and Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement YouGov/SurveyUSA released in January. By margins of 9 in 10 or more, young voters favor environmental safeguards and commonsense health and safety standards for Chemical Abortion Pills.
We’re not done: SFLAction is urging Gov. Greg Abbott call on the Women and Child Protection Act up in a special session—and we’ll be louder, stronger, and more determined than ever. We won’t stop until the trafficking of deadly Chemical Abortion Pills ends because mothers & babies deserve protection.