January 1, Illinois Forces Colleges To Distribute Abortion Pills

Wyatt’s Take

• Pritzker signs law shoving abortion pills into state schools
• Illinois protects abortion providers, even when mailing pills to other states
• Red states still struggle with rising abortion rates thanks to blue state loopholes

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker just pushed new laws making colleges give out abortion pills to students. Now any state school with a pharmacy or health center has to provide contraception and medication abortions on campus.

Pritzker calls this a promise kept, vowing to keep “women’s access to critical care” safe from so-called political interference. He’s not shy about his goal to expand abortion at every turn.

“Six years ago, I made a promise to the women of this state: As governor, I will ensure that your medical decisions will be your own,” Pritzker said in a statement.

“Today is another step forward in fulfilling that promise,” he added.

“We will continue to activate and protest and march and deliver until every woman in this state gets the health care she deserves.”

This all started after a University of Illinois campus vote demanded access to abortion pills at their health center. Now it’s state law.

The typical abortion pill combo is mifepristone, which halts progesterone, and misoprostol, which brings on contractions to expel the child.

Sixty-three percent of abortions in the U.S. used pills in 2023, and the numbers are still rising.

Illinois’ new shield law now covers any provider helping with abortions, including those mailing pills to residents in states fighting for life. These shield laws let abortion providers dodge criminal or civil punishments even if their acts break the rules in other states.

That loophole is a big reason abortion numbers keep going up in conservative states even after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Pritzker also made birth control available over the counter and banned discrimination based on someone’s “reproductive health decisions.”

The pipeline of pills and shield laws keeps undermining pro-life efforts elsewhere.

The Governor of Illinois say the state will provide abortion medication to college students

“Very proud of that. Congratulations.” pic.twitter.com/xyZIgpw2Du

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 24, 2025

We forecasted last year that red states with so-called abortion bans would see at least 218,000 abortions in 2024.

Because of increasing numbers of telehealth abortions and out of state travel for abortions, those states actually saw at least 246,000 abortions in 2024. pic.twitter.com/Jua0FvF0cK

— Foundation to Abolish Abortion (@AbolitionistFAA) August 5, 2025

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Wyatt Matters

Heartland families know that real progress protects the innocent. While politicians expand abortion, our communities must defend life, faith, and common sense at every turn.

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