March 13, 2025
“Arkansas’ leaders have every right to protect preborn lives, pregnant mothers, and everyone who wants clean drinking water, now at risk from Chemical Abortion Pill pushers out for a quick sale,” said Students for Life Action and Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins. “Even if you support abortion, that’s not a reason to expose so many to deadly risk just because abortion lovers set up a pill-pushing website.”
MEDIA NOTE: Students for Life Action (SFLAction) spearheaded 26 lobby days across the country at the beginning of state sessions and proudly applauds Arkansas as one of many states working on Chemical Abortion Pill trafficking legislation this year, as recommended in the Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap.
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LITTLE ROCK, AR (03-13-25)—Students for Life Action (SFLAction) salutes Pro-Life Champion and Arkansas State Rep. Wayne Long who introduced HB 1678, an addition to the Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act, an SFLA-inspired Chemical Abortion Trafficking Act in Arkansas. This legislation, HB 1678, would stop the illegal trafficking of dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills into Arkansas where life in the womb is protected and abortion prohibited, unless a mother’s life is in danger. Addressing No Test, Online Distribution of Chemical Abortion Pills represents a massive step forward in ensuring that dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills are no longer trafficked, in violation of state law.
MEDIA ADVISORY: A hearing on the measure is expected in the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, March 20.
“Every day, the abortion industry ends the lives of preborn children in Arkansas by using endocrine disrupting Chemical Abortion Pills,” said SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins. “Trafficking dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills in ways known to expose women to injury, infertility, and death, as well as empower sex abusers and create abortion water pollution will lead to a body count that should horrify everyone. Arkansas’ leaders have every right to protect preborn lives, pregnant mothers, and everyone who wants clean drinking water from Chemical Abortion Pill pushers out for a quick sale.”
The Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act addresses out-of-state abortionists from places like New York and California, who are illegally mailing Chemical Abortion Pills into Arkansas, penalties include making each act a Class D felony and a fine of $50,000 per violation.
Leading up to this week, SFLAction’s lobbying for this Chemical Abortion Trafficking Act legislation, will be supplemented by boots on the ground actions, including:
- Testifying at the Judiciary Committee hearing in-person on Thursday
- Calls and texts to the Judiciary Committee
- Educating voters on legislator responses to the crisis
Students for Life of America (SFLA) and SFLAction have warned of Chemical Abortion Pill’s dangers, including risks of coercion for women and minors who don’t want to take them. Thanks to the previous administration’s No Test, Online Distribution of Chemical Abortion Pills, allowing just about anybody to order this pill cocktail without age, ID, or pregnancy verification, women are less safe. Mainstream media outlets have been proudly and unashamedly touting underground pill-pushing.
Ironically, despite media messaging that unregulated Chemical Abortion Pill distribution is what younger voters want, registered Gen Z and Gen Y voters by margins of more than 9 in 10 support health and safety standards for the deadly pills as well as environmental protections. To learn more, read Students for Life’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement’s YouGov, SurveyUSA poll released in January.
Join SFLAction and our efforts to keep the women of Arkansas and their preborn babies safe from harmful Chemical Abortion Pills trafficking by signing our petition below.
Act Now in Arkansas: STOP the Flow of Illegal Abortion Pills into Arkansas
READ: 10 Reasons to Add Chemical Abortion Pills to Your HATE List
READ: IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: A Pro-Life Law in Louisiana Turns Chemical Abortion Pills into a Controlled Substance
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.