{"id":197016,"date":"2019-02-26T10:07:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197016"},"modified":"2019-02-23T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T21:14:39","slug":"illegal-abortion-provider-caught-facilitating-forced-unwanted-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/illegal-abortion-provider-caught-facilitating-forced-unwanted-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman illegally selling abortion pills caught after man uses for forced abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The idea of at-home abortion, committed without any medical oversight or ever having to see a doctor or abortionist, has been growing in popularity in the abortion industry and among its defenders. For two years, women around the country ordered\u00a0abortion pills<\/a> illegally from Ursula Wing, a web developer in New York City, who was just looking to make income to pay for a custody dispute. Beginning in 2016, she would charge $85 for the pills — far cheaper than other online suppliers — and the women who received them never had to see a doctor or receive a prescription. Her ‘services’ were praised heavily in a feature article published at Mother Jones<\/a> — but after two years, Wing was caught by the FDA, who showed up at her home and announced they suspected she was guilty of “inappropriate dispensing of prescription drugs and the distribution of ‘misbranded’ drugs using the mail.”\u00a0She sold abortion pills to approximately 2,000 women before she was caught. While Wing was not arrested, an indictment is being prepared. Pro-abortion websites lamented the supposed injustice, but none of them seemed concerned about the dangers of selling women abortion pills without being seen by a medical provider first.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that Wing was illegally facilitating abortions, she is already being made out to be some kind of hero by pro-abortion websites like Jezebel. “Wing offered a bootleg version of the type of service that could be the future of abortion,” Jezebel blogger Prachi Gupta lamented. “But we are very much trapped in the present: as she awaits indictment, America is becoming more of an abortion desert, and people are running out of options.”<\/p>\n

What Wing did was put women in legitimate danger, something that abortion advocates never acknowledge when they argue that self-induced abortions should be acceptable. While the abortion pill regimen may be less risky than a late-term abortion, there are still dangers involved.<\/p>\n

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If a woman simply orders abortion pills online, she will likely not be told the risks she is undertaking, or what the potential side effects<\/a> are. Many women experience cramping, nausea, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Others could suffer even worse side effects, such as uterine hemorrhaging, viral infections, sepsis, vaginitis, and even death<\/a>. While women are often told that the abortion pill regimen is like having a period, women who have actually experienced it have said that it is, in actuality, far worse<\/a>; one woman called it “the worst experience, the most physically and emotionally painful thing, that I\u2019ve ever been through.” Another described it as “emotionally scarring and physically horrible” while yet another woman said it was “the most painful experience ever in my life… [o]n top of emotional pain, when the second pill was taking effect, I had the most indescribable excruciating pain for more than 6 hours. It almost killed me.”<\/p>\n

Other women have bled for months<\/a> after taking it. And when a woman receives the pills illegally online, there is no one to ensure they are taking it safely, or that there are no underlying issues that could make the experience even more<\/em> dangerous. If a woman miscalculates how far along she is, for example, that can lead to more serious complications. An undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy could likewise lead to life-threatening complications, which is exactly why at-home abortions without a doctor’s supervision are such terrible ideas.<\/p>\n

During a medication abortion, a woman will first take Mifepristone, which blocks the hormone progesterone from reaching the uterus, effectively starving the preborn baby by cutting off their supply of blood and nutrients. One to two days later, the mother will then take Misoprostol, which will induce contractions and she will deliver the body of her baby.<\/p>\n