Abortion Drugs Now Arrive As Fast As An Amazon Package

Abortion pills can be obtained “as quickly as an Amazon transaction” thanks to a massive network of foreign and domestic pill sellers that routinely flout federal law.

A new study from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, first shared with The Daily Wire, found the distribution of abortion pills largely “uncontrolled” and available across the country despite pro-life laws. The study noted that the majority of abortion pill sellers ignore FDA regulations and identified at least eight online pill providers that use so-called shield laws to ship pills into states where medication abortion is technically illegal. 

Researcher Mia Steupert found that an “increase in the proliferation of foreign and domestic online providers of abortion drugs” and “the enactment of shield laws all contributed to a post-Dobbs landscape where abortion drugs are readily available on all corners of the internet to women in all 50 states and D.C.”

The Charlotte Lozier Institute is the research arm of the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America organization. 

The release of the study comes as pro-life groups have put pressure on the Trump administration to reverse Biden-era regulations that allowed abortion pills to be sent to women without in-person doctor visits. The Supreme Court ruled earlier this month to allow mail-order abortions to continue as the FDA faces lawsuits over the removal of the in-person requirement. The FDA says it is conducting a safety review of the deadly drug. 

“The Joe Biden rule stripping away in-person doctor visits allows the online abortion drug industry to send mifepristone to kill unborn children far beyond the 10-week timeframe the FDA has established – putting women at increased risk for life-threatening complications,” SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told The Daily Wire. 

“Anyone can get these drugs with a few taps on their phone. You don’t have to prove how far along you are, that you’re pregnant, or even that you’re a woman to obtain these drugs,” she added. 

Charlotte Lozier Institute Graphic on the online world of abortion pill sellers.

Shield laws have been adopted in Democrat-controlled states like New York and Massachusetts, which state officials say gives people who ship illegal abortion pills into states like Tennessee or Texas immunity from prosecution. Pro-life advocates have argued that shield laws effectively nullify states that have prohibited doctors from administering medication abortions.  

Domestic groups operating under shield laws include the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, We Take Care of Us, Aid Access, and several others, according to the study, which includes an appendix listing dozens of online pill sellers. 

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One reviewer wrote on the We Take Care of Us website said she came from “a state where abortion is not allowed,” while another referred to getting the abortion pill, which ends the life of an unborn child, as “literally a life safer [sic].”

“There are no laws directly criminalizing the ingestion of abortion pills in any state, however there can be legal risk associated with abortion care,” the We Take Care of Us website says. 

We Take Care of Us will send women abortion pills “in advance” before they become pregnant. 

We Take Care of Us.

Aid Access says it provides abortion pills “to people in all 50 states” and boasts it has facilitated the deaths of over 200,000 unborn babies.

Multiple foreign pill providers were also scrutinized in the study. 

“These are typically foreign websites that allow anyone to buy abortion drugs, oftentimes as quickly as an Amazon transaction,” Steupert wrote. “These e-commerce websites obtain abortion drugs from international manufacturers and then either ship the drugs directly to the customer or to a U.S. middleman who mails them around the country.”

The study identified Telefem Mexico, Abortion Pills in Private, and Women on Web as three of the organizations that sell pills to Americans. Pills purchased from Telefem Mexico are picked up on the Mexico side of the southern border, while the other two websites purport to ship pills into the United States. 

Abortions Pills in Private is based in a business park in the United Arab Emirates that says it ships to “anywhere” in the United States. In a drop-down menu, visitors can select from a variety of states with the strongest pro-life protections, including Tennessee. 

The pill provider says that it offers “confidential, medically reviewed services that ships abortion pill kits discreetly to addresses across Tennessee.” 

Women on the Web says that it provides abortion pills “in all 50 states, supporting pregnancies up to 14 weeks.”

Women on the Web.

The pill seller describes itself as a “Canadian feminist non-profit organization” and brags that it has facilitated the deaths of more than 130,000 unborn babies. 

Of the foreign pill sellers scrutinized in the study, 18 did not require any kind of ID, and 17 shipped abortion drugs not approved by the FDA, the study found.

Even if the providers do not purport to send pills into states with pro-life protections, most appear to completely ignore FDA regulations. The study also found that 81% of online pill sellers do not follow the FDA restrictions for abortion, including that the pill be taken within ten weeks of conception. 

“Of online abortion drug sellers within the formal U.S. healthcare system that publicly report the gestational age at which they will ship abortion drugs, only 19% complied with the FDA’s requirement to not ship the drugs after 70 days’ gestation. This means 64 sellers violated the FDA’s safety limit,” Steupert wrote. 

Additionally, the majority of pill providers also do not follow the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy requirements outlined by the FDA for the abortion drug. These requirements include things like prescriber and dispenser guidelines. 

Back in 2019, the FDA sent a letter to 28 online pill sellers who were accused of violating abortion pill regulations. Steupert said that 10 of these pill sellers were still violating federal regulations despite the warning. 

“Of the 28 websites implicated in the FDA’s 2019 abuse letters, 10 are still actively breaking U.S. federal law by selling unapproved and unbranded abortion drugs they claim are FDA-approved,” she wrote.  

The report identified sites like Abortionrx and Nopregnancy as two of the websites that were ignoring the FDA’s warnings. Both pill sellers have alleged “FDA approved” stamps on the bottom of their webpages. 

Abortionrx.

Steupert told The Daily Wire her paper should serve as a wake-up call to federal policymakers. 

“No one should be able to obtain abortion drugs as easily as purchasing something off Amazon,” she said. “The egregious findings of this paper should serve as a wake-up call to policymakers that a wild west of online abortion drug access only serves to end unborn life at all costs, even at the expense of women’s safety.”