Kentucky AG Probes Gas‑Station Ads for Mail‑Order Abortion Pills Under State Shipping Ban

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman says he has opened an investigation into out‑of‑state organizations advertising "abortion pills by mail" at more than 100 gas stations in Kentucky and neighboring West Virginia, citing a 2022 state law that bans the mailing or delivery of abortion‑inducing drugs into Kentucky. Coleman told Fox News Digital his office has issued subpoenas to fuel stations carrying ads from New York‑based nonprofit Mayday Health, which feature the line "Pregnant? Don’t want to be?" and direct drivers to information on obtaining pills by mail, and he warned groups to "keep your illegal pills out of our Commonwealth." He indicated the probe will assess potential violations of both the shipping ban in House Bill 3 and Kentucky’s consumer‑protection statutes, and urged residents to report similar ads to his consumer‑protection division. Mayday’s executive director Liv Raisner called the move an attack on free speech, noting the group won a temporary restraining order in South Dakota over comparable gas‑station messaging and arguing that people "should know that abortion pills are safe and available." The clash shows how the post‑Dobbs fight over medication abortion is expanding beyond clinics and telehealth into roadside advertising and state enforcement actions that test the limits of interstate speech and drug‑mail bans.