{"id":327027,"date":"2025-03-03T08:50:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=327027"},"modified":"2025-03-02T22:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:24:27","slug":"united-kingdom-funding-mexican-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/united-kingdom-funding-mexican-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: United Kingdom funding Mexican group illegally sending abortion pill into US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A report published last week by The Telegraph<\/a> shows that the United Kingdom has been sending funds to Las Libres, a Mexican organization responsible for illegally sending the abortion pill into the United States.<\/p>\n

According to the expos\u00e9, the UK’s Foreign Office\u2019s development budget has sent \u00a35 million to the Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF) since 2019, which in turn funds Las Libres.<\/p>\n

Las Libres was founded in 2000<\/a> as an activist group focused on promoting abortion in the traditionally pro-life country of Mexico. Since the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, it has been running a “shadow” network to smuggle abortion pills<\/a> to US states where abortion is illegal. By the beginning of 2023, the group claimed it had helped facilitate 20,000 abortions, with the number “growing and growing.”<\/p>\n

Veronica Sanchez, the founder of Las Libres, has said that the UK money was not used for US abortion pill distribution. \u201cFor our work in the US, to support access to safe abortions, donations come directly from individuals in the US civilian population,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

READ: Woman describes harrowing abortion pill experience: \u2018I nearly died\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, there is no such thing as “safe” abortion, especially when it comes to the abortion pill, which has been found to be four times more dangerous<\/a> than a first-trimester surgical abortion. Additional risks occur when the pill is taken without a doctor’s oversight \u2014 which is exactly what Las Libres tries to skirt with its mail-order scheme. The group also encourages women who do experience complications from the abortion pill to lie to their doctors<\/a> and hide their abortion if they are experiencing excessive bleeding and need medical attention, further putting them at risk.<\/p>\n