OKLAHOMA CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Oklahoma state legislature has given final approval to a bill that would make Oklahoma the 15th U.S. state to criminalize abortion pill trafficking.

House Bill 1168 would make it a felony to deliver or possess with intent to deliver an abortion-inducing drug for the purpose of causing an illegal abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, up to a $100,000 fine, or both. It now goes to the desk of pro-life Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt for a likely signature.

“House Bill 1168 is the most important legislation we’ve passed all session,” said Republican state Sen. David Bullard. “The abortion pill doesn’t just kill a baby. It doesn’t just decimate a mother through serious physical and mental health problems and never-ending regrets. The abortion pill wipes out generations of unborn lives. I’m proud the Senate took this significant step today to protect innocent babies, and I look forward to the governor signing this bill.”

“This bill will save lives, not just unborn children, but mothers who have at times been coerced or deceived into taking these dangerous abortion-inducing drugs with no medical oversight or care,” added Republican state Rep. Denise Crosswhite Hader. “I’ve worked for several years to get this bill to this stage, and I’m glad to see it finally on its way to the governor. I’m thankful for Senator Bullard’s passion on this matter and his tenacity to see this through. I’m thankful, as well, for all my House and Senate colleagues who see the importance of this measure. I pray the governor will swiftly sign this into law.”

The Oklahoman reports that some Republicans lamented that the measure wasn’t stronger. State Sen. Warren Hamilton suggested his colleagues were afraid of “bigger steps” that could be invalidated by the courts, just as the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a pair of restrictions in 2023. “Well, the only way the court will throw something out is if we give the court something to challenge,” Hamilton countered.

Mail-order abortion pills make chemical abortions even in pro-life states extremely difficult to prevent. The latest data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found 1,125,930 clinical abortions in 2025, a slight increase from 2024, which Guttmacher attributed in large part to abortion pills. Planned Parenthood’s 2024–2025 annual report says it alone committed 434,450 abortions, a record number for the organization and eight percent more than the previous year.

Abortion pills have become key to the abortion lobby’s effort to preserve “access” in a post-Roe v. Wade environment, despite the risks to the women who take them.

Pro-lifers point to an April 2025 analysis by the Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC), which concluded that almost 11 percent of women suffer sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other major conditions after taking mifepristone, according to insurance data, plus similar findings by the Restoration of America Foundation, as part of a “growing body of evidence indicating that the health risks associated with mifepristone abortions are severe, widespread, and significantly underreported.”

In May 2025, the Trump administration promised to review the data on abortion pill harms, giving hope of reversal of its stance, but nearly a year without updates has prompted frustration among pro-lifers, with U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) going so far as to question if the study is underway at all. Administration officials insist that review is still coming, though frustrated pro-lifers have said that a new official finding on the pills’ dangers should not be necessary to restore enforcement of the federal law against mailing abortion pills across state lines.