MONTGOMERY (LifeSiteNews) — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has sent cease-and-desist letters to six companies offering to ship abortion-inducing drugs into Alabama, warning practitioners they are breaking the law.

According to a press release from the AG’s office, the notices went out to Plan C in San Francisco; Southern Woven in New York; “ybycmeds” in New York; Abortion Pills in Private in the United Arab Emirates; Red State Access in New York City; and Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants in Massachusetts. The letters inform each company they are both violating state law against abortion-inducing drugs as well as protections against deceptive advertising. If they do not halt their activities, they face potential punishment of up to $2,000 for each violation.

“Alabama’s law is clear, abortion is illegal in this state,” said Marshall. “These companies are not only breaking the law, they are deceiving Alabama consumers about the very real dangers of these drugs. That stops now. Anyone who tries to exploit Alabamians for profit while flouting our laws will be prosecuted to the fullest extent permitted by law.”

“The letters also raise concerns that the companies are misleading consumers in Alabama about the safety of the drugs,” the press release adds. “Each company assures women that abortion pills are ‘safe,’ even though medical evidence directly contradicts the claim. For instance, a 2025 analysis of an all-payer insurance claims database identified that of 865,727 women prescribed Mifepristone, 10.93 percent experienced serious adverse symptoms including sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, and other life-threatening complications.”

Section 36.06 of the Alabama Constitution says that the state “acknowledges, declares, and affirms that it is the public policy of this state to recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including the right to life.” Alabama law bans abortion for any reason other than a supposed threat to the mother or alleged “lethal anomalies” in unborn children.

Mail-order abortion pills have become the abortion lobby’s most potent tool for preserving abortion without Roe v. Wade. The latest data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found 1,125,930 abortions committed by clinicians in 2025, a slight increase from 2024, which Guttmacher attributed in large part to abortion pills. Planned Parenthood’s 2024–2025 annual report says that it alone committed 434,450 abortions, a record number for the organization and eight percent more than the previous year.

The abortion lobby’s fervor to make abortion pills as easy as possible to distribute and obtain disregards a wealth of evidence indicating they are far from harmless to women even when taken with medical supervision. Pro-lifers point to an April 2025 analysis by the Ethics and 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.”

Pro-lifers are currently waiting to see how the courts will rule on legal challenges to the FDA’s lax abortion pill regulations, which allow the pills to be dispensed without an in-person visit, before a long-promised Trump administration review of the data on abortion pill harms is finally released.