August 28, 2025
Students for Life Action Slams Illinois Governor, Calling Him “Shameless” for Signing Law Mandating Sales of Dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills to College Students
“Governor J.B. Pritzker has shamelessly sold-out Illinois students to the abortion industry,” Students for Life Action’s Kristan Hawkins said. “This isn’t about healthcare. It’s about political payoffs to Planned Parenthood and abortion industry interests, sacrificing young women’s safety for an extremist agenda. Students shouldn’t have to pay for pills that kill.”
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SPRINGFIELD, IL (08-28-2025) — Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins slammed Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s for signing a bill forcing Chemical Abortion Pills onto public college campuses, calling it “outrageous that the abortion radicals are forcing today’s students to subsidize ending the lives of the next generation. Pregnancy is not a disease cured by abortion.” House Bill 3709 would require public colleges with student health centers to offer access to contraception and deadly Chemical Abortion Pills, turning college campuses into abortion distribution centers.
LEARN MORE about Pritzker’s extremist abortion agenda here: Illinois Governor Launches Pro-Abortion Group “Think Big America” for Brownie Points — But It Just Makes You Think Badly of Him
Illinois colleges, including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Illinois Chicago, and Illinois State University, all require students to pay a health service fee. Prairie State students will soon face mandatory fees that bankroll campus health centers for dispensing dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills.
HB 3709 mirrors extreme legislation already enacted in other states, such as California’s Senate Bill 24 (2019), Massachusetts’ H. 2399 (2022), and New York’s S1213A (2023)—all of which require public colleges with student health centers to offer Chemical Abortion Pills on campus. It’s no surprise Illinois lawmakers followed the radical playbook of California, New York, and Massachusetts.
These pills are not safe for women, and college campuses lack the emergency resources to handle the fallout. According to research from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), serious adverse events linked to the Chemical Abortion Pills are significantly underreported by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA)—occurring approximately 22 times more often than official figures suggest. The study suggests that more than 1 in 10 women who take the drug will experience at least one serious complication.
READ MORE: Time to Add a Surgeon General’s Warning to Chemical Abortion Pills
This isn’t SFLAction’s first time fighting the abortion industry on college and university campuses. SFLAction’s Protecting Life on College Campus Act, introduced in Congress, aimed to deny federal funds to schools pushing Chemical Abortion Pills through a “student-based service site.”
Students for Life’s recent Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement YouGov poll shows that 9 in 10 young voters back this idea.
SFLAction will continue exposing the dangers of Chemical Abortion Pills through our nationwide campus campaign, This Is Chemical Abortion.
READ MORE: Abortion on Campuses? Illinois Bill Could Turn College Campuses into Pill Dispensaries for Death
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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 nearly $20M organization, now preparing for an abortion-free America.