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Foreign abortion activists are working to undermine a Texas state law<\/a> that prohibits the abortion pill from being distributed by mail within the state, according to a New York Times <\/span>article<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since its founding in 2000, the Mexico-based abortion activist group Las Libres has sought to undermine the country\u2019s traditionally strong pro-life protections by seeking ways, often directly violating state and federal law, to make abortion on demand more available within the country. <\/span><\/p>\n

The group began when one of the founders, Veronica Cruz, began knocking on doors of OBGYNs and asking them to commit illegal abortions. For Cruz, \u201c<\/span>abortion is the most important claim of feminism<\/span><\/a>\u2026 the fact that abortion is a crime rather than a human right [reflects how] this system does not want women to be free.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the NYT article, since the passage of the <\/span>Texas Heartbeat Act<\/span><\/a> in September, Las Libres has been conspiring with abortion activists in Texas to find ways to provide illegal abortion pills to women. The group intends to convene in January to work out a strategy for smuggling illicit abortion pills into Texas. According to Cruz, the group\u2019s members are knowingly violating the law and willing to risk jail time. \u201cIf that\u2019s the only way that people will become conscious that what the government is doing is a major violation of human rights,\u201d she said according to the NYT, \u201cthen yes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Under Texas state <\/span>law<\/span><\/a>, abortion pills must be prescribed by a doctor after an in-person examination and, according to the pill\u2019s original protocol, requires the patient take the first pill in office. Distribution of the pill is also limited to the first seven weeks of pregnancy in the state of Texas.\u00a0<\/span>Research<\/span><\/a> has shown the abortion pill to be four times more dangerous than surgical abortion in the first trimester, made more complicated when women self-administer the pills without a medical exam. Although the ACOG now <\/span>claims<\/span><\/a> that most patients know how far along they are, abortion activists have long claimed that early restrictions on abortions occur before most women even\u00a0<\/span>know they\u2019re pregnant<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0New Texas law will prevent mail-order abortion pills despite change in FDA regulations<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t afraid,\u201d said Cruz, according to the NYT. \u201cWe are willing to face criminalization, because women\u2019s lives matter more than their law.\u201d The NYT article also suggested that the group was open to transporting women across international borders for the purposes of obtaining illegal abortions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s abortion record is fraught with alarming statistics and complications. According to <\/span>Guttmacher<\/span><\/a>, the former research arm of Planned Parenthood, 36% (or more than one third) of Mexican women experience complications from induced abortion. When it comes to the pill, which makes up roughly one third of Mexican abortions, around 39% of those abortions lead to complications. Guttmacher speculates that this \u201clikely reflects providers\u2019 and women\u2019s inadequate knowledge and use of misoprostol.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Las Libres prides itself on its peer-to-peer abortion pill sharing, only exacerbating the problem of correct use and knowledge. According to the NYT, the network started with \u201ca woman who could afford to buy the medication [who] would keep the pills left over after her procedure, then pass the box on to the next woman who needed it, while coaching her through the process.\u201d And even now, volunteers \u201chave boxes of the drugs, which they buy or receive as donations, strewn everywhere \u2014 in their cars, their homes, even their pockets.\u201d The peer-to-peer information sharing about how to take the pills still appears to be the group’s standard procedure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week, the Biden-Harris administration FDA made permanent a measure that had been in place under the COVID-19 pandemic to allow for distribution of the abortion pill by mail, as Live Action News <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a>. Previously, the FDA had placed the abortion pill under the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation System (REMS), a protocol designed to protect patients from \u201ccertain medications with serious safety concerns.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a report, abortion pill-related ER visits increased 500%<\/a> from 2002 to 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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