May 28, 2025
With the end of Oklahoma’s legislative session on May 30th and many lawmakers already departing Oklahoma City, the legislature was in a full-on rush down the field to pass Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking before the deadline.
However, abolitionists—who believe in criminalizing women who get abortions—along with GOP Senate Leadership, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Julie Daniels and Senate President Lonnie Paxton, intercepted the effort and handed a victory to Big Abortion as they killed HB 1168, the Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking bill.
This bill would have tackled ending the trafficking of dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills into the Sooner State. These Chemical Abortion Pills pose a serious threat backed by new findings from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which show that mifepristone causes severe complications like sepsis and hemorrhaging in nearly 11% of women.
And this Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking bill had already passed the state’s House of Representatives in a decisive 77-9 vote, followed by a 7-3 vote in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Momentum was on the side of protecting women and children from the dangers of Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking.
One abolitionist lawmaker, Sen. Dusty Deevers was willing to spike the ball on Oklahoma’s pro-life momentum by offering an amendment that would open the door to criminalize women who choose to get an abortion. Some lawmakers said in a news conference that the abolitionist amendment was used as an excuse for why Senate Leadership has not brought the bill to the floor for a vote.
This amendment reads that “a person shall not perform or procure an abortion” or else they “shall be liable for criminal penalties for abortion” as if it were a homicide.
Although this misguided amendment wasn’t added, Senate Leadership still refused to bring the Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking bill to a vote, blocking this bill that would have protected women and children from deadly abortion pill trafficking.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) and Students for Life Action (SFLAction) don’t advocate for jailing women for miscarriages or abortions, focusing our legislative efforts on the predators making billions in profit as they end precious preborn babies’ lives for money.
That’s not the case with self-proclaimed “abolitionists” who are more accurately called “prosecutionists” with their obsession with prosecuting women rather than abortionists or even the men who also played a role a child’s life.
In a Washington Post profile titled “Fringe movement sparks divide with push to charge women who get abortions,” the self-proclaimed abolitionist leader, T. Rusell Hunter, said “his movement does not concern itself with abortion rights advocates but engages squarely with those who hold antiabortion views.”
Rather than go after the predator business of abortion, the abolitionists’ focus is on pro-life American, trying to redirect them to their cause of penalties for women, prioritized over ending abortion or holding accountable those preying on women, or even calling on state and federal governments to protect life and stop funding death by abortion.
Hunter said the abolitionist “focus is on establishing justice” defined as women receiving penalties while the business of abortion and the predators running it go free, apparently.
And so, with that end apparently in mind, an historic bill comes to an end in this political cycle. However, some in Oklahoma have fought the good fight.
In a news conference, the bill’s Senate sponsor, Sen. David Bullard laid out that there are several options to get the bill to the Senate floor, including through one of the conference committees, or the Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget.
“If Oklahoma can’t stop Chemical Abortion Pill trafficking, it’s not because of Democrats,” he pointed out. “It’s because Republicans chose not to act.”
Make no mistake: SFLAction will be back in January 2026, ready to take action again and drive this life-saving bill into the end zone. We’ll keep fighting until the trafficking of deadly Chemical Abortion Pills is stopped—for women, for children, and for Life.
