{"id":287038,"date":"2023-03-16T06:42:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T11:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=287038"},"modified":"2023-03-14T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T22:41:17","slug":"smuggled-abortion-pills-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/smuggled-abortion-pills-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion groups smuggle abortion pill into war-ravaged Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to <\/span>NPR<\/span><\/a>, during the first months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, supply lines into the nation were shut down. But as the citizens of Ukraine were struggling to survive and in desperate need of food, running water, and shelter, abortion advocates decided to advance the culture of death in the war-torn country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Galina Maistruk, whose organization in Ukraine partners with International Planned Parenthood Federation, is an OB\/GYN who said that seven weeks after supply chains to the country fell, there were no abortion pills left.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another doctor, named Olga, claimed that up to five times as many women were asking for abortion pills after the invasion. “We realized that women would come and come and come, and there are going to be more and more of them. But the pills, there’s not going to be more of them. And we didn’t know if there was going to be any,” said Olga.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smuggling abortion pills into a war-torn land<\/strong><\/p>\n

With no planes allowed to enter Ukraine, abortion pill suppliers, who had tens of thousands of abortion pills ready to be delivered to the nation by donation, were left to travel by land with the pills. This meant getting to Ukraine through Poland \u2014 a very pro-life nation that <\/span>prohibits<\/span><\/a> the use of the abortion pill.<\/span><\/p>\n

An unidentified abortion pill supplier told NPR that he “didn’t want Polish customs to find any mifepristone.” He explained, “If these pills are labeled misoprostol and mifepristone, it’s a big problem.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mifepristone is the first drug of the abortion pill regime. It blocks the naturally occurring pregnancy hormone progesterone, thereby depriving the baby of nutrients necessary for his or her survival. The second pill is misoprostol, which causes contractions that expel the baby’s body.<\/span><\/p>\n