The American Life League (ALL) is appealing to President Donald Trump to designate as a terrorist group a cartel that distributes abortion-inducing drugs in the United States.
In a letter to the president, ALL National Director Katie Brown thanked him for his executive order asking Congress to designate narcotics cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, which would allow the Central Intelligence Agency and military to take direct action against them in Latin America.
Brown went on to say:
“I am writing to you today to alert you about a lesser-known drug cartel that targets our country and illegally preys on America’s women. I believe this cartel deserves the same terrorist classification as those marketing fentanyl.”
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The two-pill abortion regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol is accessible in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and territories following the Biden administration’s removal of in-person regulations to obtain the pills, according to ALL’s September 2024 report.
Abortion providers and allies send the dangerous unregulated drugs through the U.S. postal system. ALL asserted in the letter that the U.S. Postal Service, Federal Drug Administration, and other government agencies have failed to investigate these networks providing “abortion pills illegally and consistently through the mail system.”
“These secret drug trafficking networks intentionally and covertly distribute these drugs into states where lawmakers have enacted pro-life legislation,” Brown wrote. “They are criminally employing the USPS to subvert the law.”
Tweet This: Abortion providers and allies send the dangerous unregulated abortion drugs through the U.S. postal system.
One of these networks is Las Libres (Spanish for free women), which, according to its website is based in Mexico.
The website offers free abortion pills to women unable to pay for them, are at least four weeks pregnant, and live in Puerto Rico and the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, or West Virginia. They contact the website and order the pills via secure email. Women able to afford $25 and live in other states can contact plancpills.org “to review all available options.”
Its website states: “Las Libres A.C. is a feminist organization founded in 2000 in Mexico, to defend and promote women’s rights. Today, we also support women in the United States who lost their right to choose when Roe v Wade was reversed in June 2022.”
Las Libres and allied groups “unlawfully prescribe abortion pills,” ALL says, and “encourage women to hide their medical information, and teach them how to lie to medical personnel” if they must seek emergency care due to complications of self-administration of the drugs.
Las Libres encourages volunteering with “abortion rights” groups. While it is unclear whether Las Libres coordinates with Planned Parenthood, it did offer a link to the abortion provider for “information on volunteer options in your town or state.”
Brown told Pregnancy Help News that drugs mailed by Las Libres to women in the U.S. are not adequately labeled and may contain foreign substances and chemicals.
“The pills come in plastic baggies or plastic wrap rather than in factory packaging,” she warned. “Women are risking not only the lives of their babies, but also their own.”
It is not clear who makes the pills distributed by Las Libres and other groups, she added.
“There is absolutely no way to verify that the goods shipped via third-party distributors from around the globe, without oversight and circumventing the protections established by the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission, are what they say they are,” Her letter to Trump read.
In short, the process provides women with drugs intended to kill their unborn babies and greatly multiples the danger of buying “illegal, unregulated, and untested drugs from a faceless dealer in a covert, criminal distribution network.”
Abortion pills not only kill unborn children, but endanger their mothers as well.
Even when regulated the minor side effects include cramping, nausea, and vomiting. Severe complications requiring immediate medical attention include extremely heavy bleeding, severe infection, and retained tissue.
Safety concerns beyond the minor side effects as compiled by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) include:
- Chemical abortion has a complication rate four times that of surgical abortion, and as many as one in five women will suffer a complication.
- As many as 15% of women will experience hemorrhage, and 2% will have an infection. The risk of incomplete abortion and infection increases with increasing gestational age.
- Chemical abortion drugs are increasingly likely to send women to the emergency room (ER): in a study of the Medicaid population in states that fund abortion for low-income women, the rate of chemical abortion-related emergency room visits increased over 500% between 2002-2015.
- Chemical abortions are over 50% more likely than surgical abortions to result in an ER visit within 30 days, with one woman experiencing an abortion-related ER visit for every 20 chemical abortions.
In one tragic example, police in Bolivia are investigating the death of a 19-year-old woman. They determined that she died in a local hospital after taking illegal abortion drugs. Authorities are seeking to find out where she obtained them.
Brown mentioned the case of Amber Thurman, a 28-year-old mother who died in 2022 after ingesting abortion pills. In her case, her body had not completely expelled her unborn baby, causing sepsis and organ failure. Surgeons were not able to save her life.
While estimates vary, they all say chemical abortions account for a majority of abortion conducted in the U.S., and the percentage continues to grow with open access to the drugs, and according to the Guttmacher Institute, some 46 million–58 million women worldwide will choose chemical over surgical abortion.
