April 10, 2025
“As out-of-state Chemical Abortion Pill pushers target women and preborn children in Arkansas, legislators must protect them, but despite today’s vote we are one step closer to building a life-saving coalition,” said Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins. “To those legislators who abandoned the least of these to deadly Chemical Abortion Pills we have one message: See you in the primaries.”
MEDIA NOTE: Students for Life Action (SFLAction) spearheaded 26 lobby days across the nation at the beginning of the 2025 state sessions and proudly applauds Arkansas as one of 13 states using the Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap for legislative action.
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LITTLE ROCK, AR (04-10-2025) –The Arkansas House Judiciary Committee did not advance HB 1678 to the floor for a vote, a measure that if it becomes law would stop illegal Chemical Abortion Pill trafficking into Arkansas, where Life in the womb has protection. Preventing the reckless distribution of dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills through illegal trafficking would be a massive step forward in upholding Arkansas’ laws to end the violence of abortion. While some “Hail Mary” moves may take place, the bill’s forward momentum in this session appears stalled because of the procedural moves of AK State Rep. Carol Dalby, the committee chair.
“Members of the Arkansas House Judiciary committee showed a failure of imagination, as they ignored the preborn infants who will lose their lives as well as their mothers who can also be harmed. Just this week we learned that even more women have died after being exposed to Chemical Abortion Pills. But if Rep. Dalby considered this move to block the bill political expedient, well, guess again. The Pro-Life Generation will be ready during primaries to hold Arkansas legislators accountable for not protecting pre-born children and their mothers from those peddling deadly Chemical Abortion Pills,” said SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins.
For more on SFLAction’s grassroots primary work, read Hawkins’ op-ed at Townhall, “Getting Rid of Foxes in the Pro-Life Henhouse.”
SFLAction has worked through our grassroots network, educating both voters and legislators about the stakes. Last week, SFLAction staff member Kelsey Muse testified before the committee about adding HB 1678, an SFLAction-inspired amendment, to the already-in-effect Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act.
Read More: Students for Life Action to Arkansas Legislators: Stop Deadly Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking
Read More: Students for Life Action Applauds Efforts to Stop Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking in Arkansas, On Track to Becoming a Felony
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.