{"id":293863,"date":"2023-07-10T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T19:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=293863"},"modified":"2024-01-03T23:58:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T05:58:52","slug":"unregulated-abortion-pill-founder-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/unregulated-abortion-pill-founder-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Unregulated international abortion pill biz founder thinks abortion is ‘more accessible’ than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aid Access, an international abortion pill business, is revamping its online abortion pill operation to ensure that doctors in states with “shield laws” can mail the drugs into states that restrict or prohibit abortion.<\/p>\n

The business was founded by Dutch abortionist Rebecca Gomperts, who also co-founded Women on Web<\/a> and Women on Waves<\/a>. Glamour Magazine, which awarded Gomperts their “Woman of the Year” cover last year, wrote<\/a>, “In 2005, after medication abortion came into use throughout Western Europe and won FDA approval in the United States, Gomperts seized on the radical potential of the pills mifepristone and misoprostol, and founded what The<\/em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em> once termed ‘an online help desk’ called Women on Web to connect women to medical professionals who would prescribe and ship them for a reasonable fee.”<\/p>\n

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In 2018, Gomperts founded<\/a> Aid Access to utilize telemedicine for abortion. Until recently, the group’s abortion pills were likely shipped into the United Stated through India<\/a> without<\/em> FDA approval. In March of 2019<\/a>, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0AidAccess.org<\/a>\u00a0to cease shipments of the pills to the U.S.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0lawsuit<\/a> filed in the case suggested at the time that the Aid Access abortion combipack was manufactured by a pharmaceuticals company marketed by DKT International<\/a>. The warning letter failed<\/a> to sway Gomperts, who has openly advised<\/a> people to “lie to everybody” \u2014 and she continued<\/a> to ship abortion drugs anyway.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Glamour Magazine described<\/a> the Aid Access process this way: “In states where medication abortion is legal, patients who use its website are referred to local doctors who prescribe the pills, which an online pharmacist fills. Costs max out at $150.”<\/p>\n