April 2, 2025
“Keeping Chemical Abortion Pill trafficking out of West Virginia will protect the health and safety of West Virginian mothers, children, and their families. Speaker Roger Hanshaw and Majority Leader Pat McGeehan must act now to save babies’ lives, as well as protect young women from injury, infertility, and death that can result from out-of-state Chemical Abortion Pill trafficking,” said Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins. “Students for Life Action salutes the brave leadership of both Delegate Chris Anders & Sen. Patricia Rucker. State leadership needs to follow their example and pass HB 2461 and SB 85 this session.”
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CHARLESTON, WV (04-02-25)- Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins celebrated the passage of SB 85, the Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Prevention Act, sponsored by Sen. Patricia Rucker in the West Virginia Senate. The action moves to the State House for consideration. Hawkins noted: “What happens next is critical. Speaker Roger Hanshaw and House Majority Leader Pat McGeehan have massive power over whether this bill gets a vote in the State House. The lives of preborn babies depend on whether those in leadership stand up to the abortion lobby and bring this bill to the West Virginia House floor for a vote. Although they refused to allow the House version of this bill to be taken up in committee, they now have a chance for redemption.”
Hawkins noted that the next steps include moving this bill to a hearing and a vote to save the lives of preborn babies or, otherwise, they can kill the bill and leave those babies at the mercy of the abortion industry’s new obsession – Chemical Abortion Pills.
Learn more about the bill in an opinion piece at Townhall from Hawkins and Sen. Rucker, titled: The Mountain State Trailblazed a New Frontier With Pro-Life Anti-Trafficking Efforts
Hawkins testified in favor of West Virginia’s Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Prevention Act, urging the state Senate Judiciary Committee to pass SB 85, which they ultimately did. Both Sen. Rucker and Delegate Chris Anders have been fearlessly fighting on the front lines in the West Virgina House and Senate to get their respective Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Prevention Acts passed and signed into law.
SOME BACKSTORY: A native of West Virginia, Hawkins learned from sources in West Virginia’s State Capitol that Speaker Henshaw was refusing to move forward any pro-life bills in 2025. In response, SFLAction quickly mobilized in March by knocking on doors in the Speaker’s district and surrounding areas, as well as educating residents on problems with getting pro-life legislation on the move.
“It’s no surprise that Chemical Abortion Pill traffickers are willing to risk women’s lives and fertility in order to make a quick sale with a concoction designed to end life in the womb. When death is your business, concern for others is hardly a priority,” said Hawkins.
Voter outreach in the state includes digital engagement as seen here: CLICK HERE TO CONTACT SPEAKER HANSHAW AND URGE HIM TO BRING UP SB 85 FOR A VOTE
For years, SFLAction has been actively involved with boots on the ground in the Mountaineer State pro-life legislation and educating voters.
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Read More: Students for Life Action’s Pro-Life Generation Report Card: West Virginia Notches Strong A- in 2024 Pro-Life Report Card
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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.