OKLAHOMA CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a new law making the Sooner State the fifteenth to criminalize abortion pill trafficking.

House Bill 1168 makes 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. Supporters says it is an important tool for preserving the integrity of Oklahoma’s pro–life protections.

“We hear a lot about the trafficking of humans and children, and rightfully so,” says Republican state Sen. David Bullard. “We have worked hard to eliminate this enslavement of people. The trafficking of the abortion pill is no different than human trafficking and possibly worse. It is the largest killer of babies and the greatest threat to motherhood. It is the death sentence to an innocent baby who has been convicted of no crime and a false hope to a mother, soon to kill the child she carries.”

“In fact, the injustice of the abortion pill being trafficked in Oklahoma is a generational loss of Holocaust proportions, and the victims are always twofold. Today, we took a big step in stopping both of those wrongs. Oklahoma will continue to stand for the rights of a person to have life, liberty and property,” he added. 

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 reported 1,125,930 abortions facilitated 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 boasts that it alone committed 434,450 abortions, a record number for the organization and eight percent more than the previous year.

The abortion lobby aggressively supports the pills despite the increased risk to abortion-seeking women. Pro-lifers point to an April 2025 analysis by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) that 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 U.S. Supreme Court will rule on legal challenges to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s lax abortion pill regulations, which allow the pills to be dispensed without an in-person medical visit, before a long-awaited Trump administration review of the safety data is finally released.