Kentucky AG Fights Out of State Abortion Tablets
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has launched an investigation into out-of-state groups mailing abortion-inducing drugs into the state and issued subpoenas to gas stations displaying advertisements for such services.
The Republican attorney general is targeting the New York-based nonprofit Mayday Health, which has placed ads at gas stations across Kentucky promoting mail-order abortion pills that kill babies and hurt women.
“Out-of-state activist groups who are targeting the vulnerable here should be on notice,” Coleman recently warned. “Keep your illegal pills out of our Commonwealth or face the full weight of the Attorney General’s office.”
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The actions enforce Kentucky’s 2022 House Bill 3, which prohibits the mailing or delivery of abortion-inducing drugs into the commonwealth. The law was enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, returning authority over abortion to the states and allowing Kentucky to enact strong protections for unborn life.
The advertisements featured messages such as “Pregnant? Don’t want to be?” followed by the organization’s website address for obtaining the pills.
The effort comes as Kentucky lawmakers advance House Bill 646, a priority measure that would strengthen penalties by increasing felony classifications for the trafficking of abortion-inducing drugs under pharmaceutical trafficking provisions.
Coleman’s probe underscores pro-life states’ commitment to blocking the interstate flow of chemical abortion drugs that seek to evade laws safeguarding women and their unborn children.
