• Republican state Rep. Gino Bulso has introduced a bill in Tennessee, House Bill 26, which seeks to penalize the distribution of abortion-inducing drugs via mail.
• The bill imposes a $5 million fine for each instance where an abortion pill is linked to the death of an unborn child. Penalties are directed at manufacturers, distributors, online stores, and any intermediary facilitating the delivery of abortion pills into Tennessee.
• The bill targets a broad spectrum of facilitators, including manufacturers, distributors, and individuals directing others to obtain abortion pills, aiming to prevent abortion pills from being mailed to Tennessee.
• A coalition of pro-life groups supports the bill, citing adverse effects of abortion pills, including over 4,000 reported adverse events since 2000 and 24 maternal deaths, according to FDA data.
• The coalition highlights limitations in the FDA’s adverse event reporting system, noting that underreporting is common and true numbers of adverse events are likely higher than documented. They urge the FDA to pull abortion pills from the U.S. market and regulate against black market trafficking.

Tennessee lawmakers have introduced a stringent piece of legislation aimed at curbing the practice of mailing abortion pills into the state.

The Unborn Child Protection Act of 2025, as proposed by Republican state Representative Gino Bulso, would impose crushing financial penalties on anyone involved in the distribution of abortion-inducing drugs via mail. The proposed bill, House Bill 26, would hold manufacturers, distributors, online stores and any individual who directs someone to obtain these pills strictly liable for damages amounting to $5 million for each instance where an abortion pill is linked to the death of an unborn child.

This legislation targets not only the direct parties involved in the manufacture and distribution of abortion pills but also any intermediary who facilitates the delivery of such drugs into the state. (Related: REPORT: Abortion Pill Rescue Network has saved over 6,000 babies through the abortion pill reversal protocol.)

“I learned that there were some young ladies in Tennessee who had ordered and received abortion pills through the mail,” said Republican state Rep. Gino Bulso, the lead sponsor of the bill. “I began thinking about what else we might be able to do, both to deter folks from breaking the law and to provide a civil remedy to the family of an unborn child who’s killed because abortion pills were illegally sent into the state.”

It’s broader than just exposing manufacturers and distributors to liability. It imposes liability on any person or company who actually sends abortion pills or delivers abortion pills into the state for the purpose of killing an unborn child.”

Tennessee’s current trigger law, which bans abortion except in cases of physical medical emergencies, has already led to the closure of all Planned Parenthood abortion facilities within the state. However, proponents of the new bill argue that simply banning abortion clinics is not enough to completely eliminate access to abortion within the state’s borders.

A coalition of pro-life groups supports the claims of HB 26 regarding abortion pills

In a 2020 open letter to then-U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, a coalition of pro-life groups supported the claims of the proponents of the new bill.

In the letter, the coalition highlighted that the FDA’s adverse event reporting system documented over 4,000 reported adverse events related to abortion pills since 2000, including 24 maternal deaths. However, it is important to note that adverse events are often underreported to the FDA, and as of 2016, the FDA only mandates abortion pill manufacturers to report maternal deaths.

“Manufacturers gather this information from the prescribers, such as Planned Parenthood facilities. Yet, women who experience side effects like heavy bleeding, abdominal pain, or severe infections are likely to seek care at emergency rooms, not the abortion facilities where they received the pills. Since emergency rooms are not required to report abortion pill adverse events to the FDA, the true number of adverse events is impossible to assess,” the coalition wrote at that time.

At the time, the coalition made a similar call to the bill: “For these reasons, we urge you to pull the abortion pill from the U.S. market immediately and declare it an imminent hazard to the public health under 21 CFR § 2.5. We also encourage your continued efforts to stop the illegal trafficking of black market abortion pills into U.S. commerce, and to fight back against the abortion industry’s radical push to overturn REMS in the courts.”

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