EXCLUSIVE— An anti-abortion group is pressuring Attorney General Pam Bondi to begin enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873, which prohibits the shipping of abortion-related drugs through the mail, according to a new letter.
The correspondence, obtained by the Washington Examiner, was sent to Bondi on Monday by Students for Life America, a group that has long championed ending access to abortion and abortion-related medication.
“Attorney General Bondi, we ask you to enforce the Comstock Act immediately and investigate violators of the prohibition to mail Chemical Abortion Pills, both in the U.S. and internationally,” Students for Life America President Kristan Hawkins wrote in the letter.
“Enforcing the Comstock Act is the right thing to do for preborn babies, for mothers, and for the environment. It shows respect for the law and the states,” the letter continues. “The failure to do so makes all the wrong people happy — pill pushers and abusers — and we believe better of the Trump Administration. Please prioritize this vital effort today.”
The Trump administration’s actions on abortion have frequently frustrated the anti-abortion community during his second term. President Donald Trump angered conservatives when he told House Republicans in January to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, which largely prohibits federal funding for abortions.
Trump has also incurred wrath for not taking steps to curtail access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Before last year’s government shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration approved a second generic version of the abortion pill.
Anti-abortion leaders also called for the firing of FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary in December for reportedly putting off a long-awaited safety review of the mifepristone until after the midterm elections.
The Department of Justice argued in May 2025 that three GOP-run states — Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri — lacked standing to sue the FDA over mifepristone and asked for the case to be dismissed, a position that aligns with the DOJ’s actions under former President Joe Biden.
Vice President JD Vance alluded to these “debates” and “open conversations” among conservatives during his speech at the March for Life rally in January. But conservatives aren’t backing down from pushing the administration to do more to restrict abortion.
“The Trump Administration does not turn a blind eye to violations of election or immigration law or to fraud in government programs. This must be no different,” Students for Life warned. “We ask that the team in place acts today to end the trafficking in Chemical Abortion Pills by national and international pill pushers who mock state laws to profit from death-by-abortion.”
Students for Life is also championing the “Clean Water for All Life Act,” which was introduced by Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) with nine GOP co-sponsors earlier this month. Advocates claimed mifepristone contaminates the water supply with human remains through at-home abortions.
“Another risk of neglecting enforcement is the reality of abortion water pollution,” the group wrote to Bondi. “Using the abortion industry’s own math, each year, more than 50 tons of chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue, along with human remains, go into America’s waterways, with active metabolites that continue to have an impact.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act earlier this month, revoking the FDA’s approval of mifepristone for abortion. Yet the White House has remained quiet about the bill, and it has not received a floor vote in the Senate.
In a phone interview, Hawkins told the Washington Examiner that Trump’s campaign assertions of how abortion was a state’s issue after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade were unacceptable as long as the Comstock Act is not being enforced.
“Abortion cannot be a state issue if you continue to allow predatory abortion drug vendors who ship pills to any person, male or female, pregnant, non-pregnant, sex abuser, non-sex-abuser, across the country,” she said. “And circumvent the laws of free-to-be-born states. And this is a constitutional crisis, as far as I’m concerned.”
Anti-abortion groups are also concerned about Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which defunded Planned Parenthood for a year. If the GOP-controlled Congress doesn’t pass a second reconciliation bill, Planned Parenthood could once again be reimbursed for services by the federal government.
“I think that the pro-life generation has been patient, but I think that patience is coming to an end, especially when we see, in the coming months, Planned Parenthood could very well get refunded on July 4 and America’s 250th birthday,” said Hawkins. “We may be giving Planned Parenthood this huge birthday gift.”
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Students for Life intends to keep pressure on the DOJ in the upcoming months, with some grassroots actions planned at the DOJ in May.
“We’ve been doing the Christian thing of going to our friends in private; it’s now time to go to our friends in public,” said Hawkins.
