{"id":330437,"date":"2025-05-01T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=330437"},"modified":"2025-04-30T23:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T04:36:49","slug":"women-third-trimester-black-market-abortion-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-third-trimester-black-market-abortion-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation: Women aborting in third trimester with ‘black market’ abortion pills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An investigation from The Sun<\/a> found that a black market abortion pill ring is flourishing in the United Kingdom (UK), encouraging women to undergo extremely late chemical abortions. Abortion is legal in the UK through 24 weeks gestation, and can even be committed after this point if the preborn child has been diagnosed with a disability.<\/p>\n

According to the investigation, international sellers are targeting women on social media platforms like Facebook. Women as late as eight months into pregnancy are allegedly being targeted, as well as women pregnant with twins.<\/p>\n

One woman posted of the horrific experience she went through, adding broken heart and crying emojis to her remarks. \u201cFinally I’m free yooh (sic) the pain I almost died I was 7_8 months (sic),\u201d she wrote. “It was a girl & boy (twins) I regret doing it.”<\/p>\n

Another person, however, felt differently. \u201cI was 5-6 months pregnant and now I am free. Took the pills yesterday at 8:30pm and finished the whole process at 6am.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UK allows women to order abortion pills online through 10 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n